Þrymr (Thrym)

Thrym is the giant-king whose theft sets off the funniest poem in the Edda — the Þrymskviða. He steals Thor's hammer Mjöllnir, the one thing standing between gods and giants, and buries it eight leagues deep in the earth, naming his price for its return: the goddess Freyja as his bride. When Freyja refuses with world-shaking fury, the gods hit on a desperate ruse — they dress Thor himself as the bride, veiled, with Loki as the bridesmaid, and send him to the giants' wedding-feast. Thrym, delighted, watches his 'bride' devour a whole ox and eight salmon and drink three casks of mead, and is talked out of his alarm by Loki's quick lies — until the hammer is brought in to hallow the marriage and laid in the 'bride's' lap, and Thor's hand closes on it and he slaughters the lot. Thrym is the great comic giant — greedy, gullible, and the butt of the gods' best joke.