Snowflake
By Rey
Chapter summary: Looks are not the only physical thing that differentiates the jötnar from the æsir, apparently.
32. Doddering
Boluðúrna, called Bolthorn in Asgard, the sire of Laufey ("Amma") and Bestla (their?… her?… elder womb-sibling, mother of Odin Borson), is old, judging from the somewhat papery feel of… their… skin, and the look in their eyes, and their even-more-gravelly-than-an-adult-jötun voice. But they do not look old, at all.
Some say that their seiðr was wounded severely during the abrupt uprooting of the Anchor (the Casket of Ancient Winters) during the end of the war with Asgard (an invasion, people here call it), as they were in the process of building a massive Working to shield a whole village from the æsir. It is further said that they were subsequently incapasitated for centuries. But they do not look the least invalid, either.
When Loki blatantly asked them, in the "family dinner" just now, they said that they are fifteen-millennia-and-four-centuries-old.
He doubts it, very much.
One does not reach fifteen millennia in Asgard while still able to swing and swoop and fly a hapless seven-century-old – not even a baby! – round and round and round, so agilely and tirelessly. In fact, people of that age are supposed to be… very, very, very old and thus rickety… or dead!
