Theft Of Indun's Apples In The Norse Mythology

“The Theft of Indun’s Apples” in The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley Holland starts off with Odin, Loki, and Honir exploring Midgard. They kill an ox, but it would not cook in the fire because an eagle will not let it. The eagle tells them he will let the meat cook if he gets his portion first. When the bird takes most of it, Loki hits it. Loki’s stick gets stuck and the eagle drags Loki around until he agrees to bring Indun and her apples out of Asgard. Without the apples, the gods age; the apples granted them youth. They find out Loki caused this and threaten to kill him if he does not get the apples back. Thiazi is the rock giant disguised as an eagle. Loki uses Freya’s falcon skin to fly and get Indun by turning her into a nut. He races back to Asgard, but Thiazi is close behind. The gods start a fire and burn Thiazi as he comes towards them. The apples make all the gods young again.
His selfishness causes all of the conflict to occur. He made the deal with the eagle to bring Indun and her apples if the eagle spared his life. Loki is also a static character; he does not change or learn his lesson. He is the god of mischief and always will be. The author makes it obvious that the other gods expect Loki to always cause trouble when he communicated, “No one doubted then that Loki was the cause of what had happened to them” (Holland, page 41). The antagonist is a rock giant disguised as an eagle named Thiazi. The events in story lead to him being killed by the gods. He took the golden apples, so that the gods would become old and he would live forever. The only change throughout the story involving Thiazi is when he is