I'm excited. I've found a story, in a couple of different books, that sounds amazingly like Odd and the Frost Giants. The book's description says that it was inspired by traditional Norse mythology, and I believe this was the main story it was based on.
In all three versions I've found, Thor wakes to find his hammer, Mjolnir stolen. Loki borrows Freya's falcon skin and discovers that Thrym, King of the Frost Giants has stolen it and is demanding Freya as his bride before he will return it.
This is where it begins to get quite different from Odd. Since they would not give Freya to the Frost Giants, Loki dresses Thor up in a wedding dress and veil and himself as the bridesmaid. Thrym falls for the ruse, and Mjolnir is dropped into his lap, and he promptly kicks the Frost Giants' rear ends.
Which, according to Gaiman, is "how every tale of the Gods and the Frost Giants ends - with Thor killing Giants."
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