Fenrir (also Fenris)
Fenrir (also Fenris) was a huge wolf in Scandinavian mythology who caused much sorrow and destruction among the gods. Fenrir appears in various Norwegian and Icelandic poems from the 9th and 11th centuries.
Fenrir was one of the three monstrous children of Loki and Angrboða. The gods were afraid of children because according to prophecies they would do great harm. Odin brought the children to Asgård. The other two children were banished by Odin, but the gods decided to capture Fenrir and raise them in Asgård. Of the gods, only Tyr dared to approach Fenrir, but eventually it grew so large that the gods wanted to chain it. Fenrir broke the first two iron chains. The dwarves made the light and thin silk chains with which it was going to be bound. Fenrir promised to agree to try the chain, but only if Tyr kept his hand in Fenrir's mouth. When Fenrir was bound with the Gleipnir shackle, it would bite off Tyr's hand. The gods knew that Fenrir was involved in the destruction of the gods, but they did not want to change fate.
As the events of Ragnarök unfold, Fenrir is freed from his chains in a great earthquake and joins Loki's monstrous army to destroy the world. In the end, Fenrir kills Odin himself, the leader of the gods. According to another version of the story, Fenrir swallows Odin and Odin's son Vidar avenges his father's death by killing Fenrir, according to different versions of the story, either by stabbing him in the heart or by twisting his jaws out of place.
Fenrir was one of the three monstrous children of Loki and Angrboða. The gods were afraid of children because according to prophecies they would do great harm. Odin brought the children to Asgård. The other two children were banished by Odin, but the gods decided to capture Fenrir and raise them in Asgård. Of the gods, only Tyr dared to approach Fenrir, but eventually it grew so large that the gods wanted to chain it. Fenrir broke the first two iron chains. The dwarves made the light and thin silk chains with which it was going to be bound. Fenrir promised to agree to try the chain, but only if Tyr kept his hand in Fenrir's mouth. When Fenrir was bound with the Gleipnir shackle, it would bite off Tyr's hand. The gods knew that Fenrir was involved in the destruction of the gods, but they did not want to change fate.
As the events of Ragnarök unfold, Fenrir is freed from his chains in a great earthquake and joins Loki's monstrous army to destroy the world. In the end, Fenrir kills Odin himself, the leader of the gods. According to another version of the story, Fenrir swallows Odin and Odin's son Vidar avenges his father's death by killing Fenrir, according to different versions of the story, either by stabbing him in the heart or by twisting his jaws out of place.