Loki's weapon - Norse background

Since last time, I stumbled across some information concerning Loki's weapon. According to the mythology notes I read on the Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok anime dvd (disc 5), the weapon is called “Laevatein,” meaning “lie stick” or “wand of destruction.”

There are two different versions of the story concerning the weapon – in one, Loki makes the staff in order to kill a cock. This would prevent the cock, who was serving as lookout, from warning Loki's enemies that his army was approaching on the day of Ragnarok. In the other story, Laevatein is a flaming sword Loki made for he and his brother to use to battle at Ragnarok. In both stories however, Loki almost always keeps the sword sealed carefully away.

As was said in the last post, the anime-Loki uses this staff for battling and uses magic through it.