The Sword Of Summer Chapter Summary

Summary The book, “Magnus Chase And The Gods Of Asgard, The Sword Of Summer”, written by Rick Riordan starts out with Magnus Chase living on the streets. He describes how his mother died leaving him without a home sense fourteen. He has some family, but he refuses to admit that he needs them and decides to live on his own. At the start of the novel his cousin, Annabeth, is out looking for him. Magnus is not ready to meet his cousin yet, so like he’s done most of his life, he runs, but the confrontation gives him an idea. He wants to figure out more about his families past, and the only way to do that is to break into his uncle's house. When he enters his uncle's house he is in search of answers, he, being a typical homeless kid, went a …show more content…
They decided to team up, but they still need some sort of direction. So Hearth and Blitz decide to take Magnus to their all knowing master for some guidance, Mimir. He was of no help so they decided to evaluate their option over lunch. When they go for lunch, it's the same place where Sam's boyfriend works, and some of Sam's history is revealed. They have a run in with a giant who tells them that the Sea Goddess Ran has the sword. So they go fishing and pull up the World Serpent to attract her attention. They succeed and bargained with her for the sword. When they came back to the shore, with the newly found sword they knew they needed to find a way to go to the island where the wolf was and prevent it from escaping. To stop its escape they needed and amazing rope to tie it down. They nearly open a portal to the world tree, escaping the Gunial and a group of Valkyries that are now on the hunt, and travel to the dwarf world. To their surprise instead of arriving in the dwarf world, they end up in Volkswagen. They find the Goddess in love who is in charge of Volkswagen, and is also Blitzen's mom. She gives them a bag of rare jewels to bargain for the rope and a nice pair of earrings for her. She sends them to where they go to a bar in search of Junior, the dwarf with the rope. They summon for him and he confronts them with a forging …show more content…
So they traveled with the goat to find Thor stuck under a waterfall made by an evil giant. Magnus’s sword killed the giant, freeing Thor. They spend the night with Thor and discover that he has lost his Hammer. He agrees to help them get to the island where the Wolf is at, if they can go up to a giant's house and find out if they have his hammer. So they spend a day traveling to the giant’s house. Once they arrive they go in claim guests rights to bargain for the hammer and Gunilla, who the giants had captured. The bargain does not go well, so Magnus ends up killing the two giants. As they tried to escape another giants comes in and finds Magnus and his friends. They trick him into destroying his house, killing the giant. After the giant is dead they find Thor's weapon, but not the hammer. Thor is thankful and transports all of them to where Thor thinks they need to go.
Magnus ends up on Bunker Hill facing Hel. She tells him she can give him his mother back if he gives up on his quest. He refuses and is transported to Sam’s middle school where she tells the story of how she was turned into a Valkyrie. Once they were done they traveled back to Boston and found Hearth and Blitzen. They had been told how to find the island with the wolf, so the four of them departed to take on