Word: loki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save this exclusive German property Das Schwarze Korps also came out against those Nazis who wish to displace Christmas with a pagan winter festival and to substitute Balder for Christ. Balder, God of Light in Norse mythology, was invulnerable to everything except mistletoe. The God of Evil, Loki, Balder's enemy, found out his secret, persuaded the blind god Hoder to kill Balder by throwing a sprig of mistletoe...
...headed Lewis Rubenstein, '30, painting on the damp, freshly plastered walls of the entrance hall scenes from the "Neibelungenlied" and the old "Icelandic Edda". And stirring scenes they are. "Wars are waged, blood is shed, and evil grows greater . . . The giants have gathered to attack Asgard." Frey, the traitorous Loki, and Thor, with his mighty workman's hammer, battle on the bridge Bilfrost, which "is built of air and water, and is protected by red fire flaming on its edge...
...crags fall to ruin; and all fetters and bonds shall be broken and rent. . . . In this din shall the heavens be cloven, and the sons of Muspell ride thence: Sutr shall ride first and both before and after him burning fire." Leading the giants is the traitor Loki, holding a flame thrower, and Frey, who opposes him is swept by flames. Thor, the thunder god, rushes to the attack, wielding his mighty workman's hammer...