Eldir

Eldir is attested only in the poem Lokasenna (Loki's Flyting) where, in the sequence of events, Loki has killed Ægir's praised servant Fimafeng and been driven from the hall; upon returning to Ægir's feast Loki encounters Eldir outside the hall, asks what the Æsir are discussing, and is answered before entering to provoke the gods. The poem is the sole primary context supplied in the cited sources for Eldir's presence and function; scholarly commentary frames him as a literary threshold-attendant type within hall-feast episodes.

The surviving sources supply no physical description of Eldir beyond his occupational implication. His Old Norse name is translated as 'fire-stoker', which situates him conceptually by the hearth as a household servant tending the fire at Ægir's hall. Aside from this onomastic implication and his placement outside the hall in Lokasenna, no details of clothing, age, stature, or distinctive features are recorded in the cited material.

No supernatural powers are attributed to Eldir in the provided sources. He functions in Lokasenna as a competent household attendant (one of Ægir's two praised servants) and as a verbal actor who answers Loki's question about the conversation inside the hall. Scholarly commentary (e.g., John Lindow) identifies Eldir with the 'outer guardian' or threshold interlocutor character-type found in other Old Norse poems; his agency in the surviving tradition is limited to service duties and speech rather than magical action.