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Logi
Útgarða-Loki's man who beats Loki in an eating contest by devouring meat, bones and trough together, because he is wildfire itself.
Logi appears in a single scene of Gylfaginning. At Útgarðr, Loki boasts that no one can eat faster than he can, and Útgarða-Loki calls Logi up from the far end of the bench. A trough of meat is set between them and they eat towards the middle. Loki strips the meat from the bones, but Logi eats meat, bones and trough together Gylfaginning 46.
Next morning the king explains that Logi "was 'wild-fire'": fire, which eats everything Gylfaginning 47. The joke works in Old Norse because Loki and logi ("flame") sound almost the same. The likeness has led some scholars to argue that the god Loki was once a fire being, but most now doubt it.
That is all the sources say about Logi. He is one of three disguises in the tale, with Hugi ("thought"), who outruns Þjálfi, and Elli ("old age"), who wrestles Thor.
In the sources
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Logi likewise had eaten all the meat, and the bones with it, and the trough too
he who was called Logi was "wild-fire," and he burned the trough no less swiftly than the meat
Where the sources disagree or fall silent
- Snorri calls the wind 'Son of Fornjótr, Brother of the Sea and of Fire' (Skáldskaparmál 27), and later Icelandic genealogies name a fire-giant Logi as one of Fornjótr's sons, beside Hlér (the sea) and Kári (the wind). Whether that Logi is the one at Útgarðr is unclear.
