Roskva- Norse FigureMortal"Servant of Thor"

Taken into Thor's Service

When Thor stopped at a farm during a journey and slaughtered his goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr to share a meal with the household, he instructed everyone to lay the bones on the goat-hides without breaking them. Röskva's brother Þjálfi disobeyed, cracking a thighbone with his knife to reach the marrow inside. The next morning Thor consecrated the bones with Mjölnir and the goats rose from the hides alive, but one was lame in the hind leg. Thor's fury at the damage was terrible to see: he gripped the hammer so hard his knuckles whitened, and the farmer's household fell to their knees in terror. The farmer offered both his children, Þjálfi and Röskva, as servants in compensation, and Thor accepted. The siblings left their mortal lives behind to enter the thunder god's permanent household.

Journey to Útgarðr

Röskva traveled with Thor, Loki, and her brother to Útgarða-Loki's fortress. On the road they slept inside what they thought was a hall. It was Skrýmir's glove. The fortress itself dwarfed everything they had seen, and the contests inside were worse. Þjálfi raced a boy called Hugi and lost three times. Thor drank from a horn that would not empty. Loki ate against a figure who devoured plate, bones, and trough together.

When the party departed, Útgarða-Loki revealed the trick: Hugi was thought itself, the horn's end lay in the ocean, and Loki's opponent was wildfire. The fortress vanished behind them. Röskva witnessed all of it and competed in none of it. The sources say nothing more about her.