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{{Short description|Jötunn in Norse mythology}}
[[File:AM 738 4to, 41v, BW Þökk.jpeg|thumb|Þökk in an illustration from the 17th-century Icelandic manuscript [[AM 738 4to]], the so-called Langa Edda or Edda Oblongata.]]
'''Þökk''' (also Thökk) ([[Old Norse]] / [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] "Thanks"<ref name=ORCHARD161>Orchard (1997:161).</ref>) is a [[jötunn]] in [[Norse mythology]], presumed to be [[Loki]] in disguise, who refuses to weep for the slain [[Baldr]], thus forcing Baldr to stay in [[Hel (realm)|Hel]].

==''Prose Edda''==
After Baldr was killed, [[Hermóðr]] rode to Hel. [[Hel (being)|Hel]], the ruler of [[Hel (realm)|the realm of the same name]], agreed that Baldr should go back to the living if all things in the world wept for him. So the [[Æsir]] sent messengers all over the world, and all wept for him, but:

:"Then, when the messengers went home, having well wrought their errand, they found, in a certain cave, where a giantess sat: she called herself Thǫkk. They prayed her to weep Baldr out of Hel; she answered:
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::Thǫkk will weep
::waterless tears
::For Baldr's bale-fare;
::Living or dead,
::I loved not the churl's son;
::Let Hel hold to that she hath!<ref>This stanza is cited in the ''[[Prose Edda]]'' book ''[[Gylfaginning]]'', but its source is unrecorded there.</ref>
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:And men deem that she who was there was Loki Laufeyarson, who hath wrought most ill among the Æsir."
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::::—''[[Gylfaginning]]'' <small>(49)</small>, [https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/pre04.htm Brodeur's translation]<ref>[[Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur|Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist]] (trans.). 1916. ''[[Snorri Sturluson]]: The [[Prose Edda]]''. New York: [[The American-Scandinavian Foundation]].</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* Orchard, Andy (1997). ''Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend''. [[Orion Publishing Group|Cassell]]. {{ISBN|0-304-34520-2}}

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