Editing Móði and Magni (section)

==''Prose Edda''==
Apart from his role after [[Ragnarök]], there is nothing we know about Móði but, in the ''Prose Edda'' book ''Skáldskaparmál'', Magni plays a role in the myth of Thor's battle with the giant [[Hrungnir]]:
:But the hammer [[Mjöllnir]] struck Hrungnir in the middle of the head, and smashed his skull into small crumbs, and he fell forward upon Thor, so that his foot lay over Thor's neck. [[Þjálfi|Thjálfi]] struck at [[Mökkurkálfi]], and he fell with little glory. Thereupon Thjálfi went over to Thor and would have lifted Hrungnir's foot off him, but could not find sufficient strength. Straightway all the [[Æsir]] came up, when they, learned that Thor was fallen, and would have lifted the foot from off him, and could do nothing. Then Magni came up, son of Thor and Járnsaxa: he was then three nights old; he cast the foot of Hrungnir off Thor, and spake: 'See how ill it is, father, that I came so late: I had struck this giant dead with my fist, methinks, if I had met with him.' Thor arose and welcomed his son, saying that he should surely become great; 'And I will give thee, he said, the horse [[Gullfaxi|Gold-Mane]], which Hrungnir possessed.' Then [[Odin]] spake and said that Thor did wrong to give the good horse to the son of a giantess, and not to his father.
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::—''Skáldskaparmál'' <small>(17)</small>, [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/pre05.htm Brodeur's translation]
John Lindow draws a parallel between Magni and Odin's son [[Váli (son of Odin)|Váli]] for they both have a giantess mother ([[Rindr]] for Váli) and achieve a feat at a very young age (Váli is only one day old when he kills [[Höðr]], thus avenging [[Baldr]]'s death).<ref>Lindow 2001.</ref>