The gods began to drag the net upstream, toward the place where thehuge silver salmon was biding its time. Loki planned and plotted.As the net came closer, Loki knew that this was the critical moment. Hehad to leap the net as he had done before, and this time he would racetoward the sea. He tensed, like a spring about to whip back, and then heshot into the air.Thor  was  fast.  He  saw  the  silver  salmon glitter  in  the  sun,  and  he grabbed it with his huge hands, just as a hungry bear snatches a salmon from  the  air.  Salmon are  slippery fish,  and  Loki  was  the  slipperiest of salmon; he  wriggled and  tried  to  slip  through Thor’s  fingers, but  Thor simply gripped the fish harder and squeezed it tightly, down by the tail.They say that salmon have been narrower near the tail ever since.

The Death of Baldur