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Fenrir (Old Norse ' fen -dweller') [3] or Fenrisúlfr (Old Norse "Fenrir's wolf ", often translated "Fenris-wolf"), [4] also referred to as Hróðvitnir (Old Norse "fame-wolf") [5] and Vánagandr (Old Norse 'monster of the [River] Ván'), [6] is a monstrous wolf in Norse mythology. In Old Norse texts, Fenrir plays a key role during the events ...
Geri and Freki. In Norse mythology, Geri and Freki are two wolves which are said to accompany the god Odin. They are attested in the Poetic Edda, a collection of epic poetry compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds.
Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology. The wolf is a common motif in the foundational mythologies and cosmologies of peoples throughout Eurasia and North America (corresponding to the historical extent of the habitat of the gray wolf), and also plays a role in ancient European cultures. The modern trope of the Big Bad Wolf arises from ...
Old Norse. Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England between the mid 9th to the 11th centuries (see also Danelaw). Many of these words are part of English core vocabulary, such as egg or knife.
Garmr is the namesake and emblem of the Galm Team in the combat flight simulation game Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War. The name "Galm" is a mistransliteration of "Garmr" into English due to the singular liquid phoneme in the Japanese language. Garmr appears as a boss fight in the 2017 video game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and 2022's God of ...
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In Norse mythology, Gleipnir is an iron rope created by the Norse gods for the third time to bind the demon wolf Fenrir. The Gods had attempted to bind Fenrir twice before with huge chains of metal, The iron chains of （Leyding） and （Dromi）. were torn apart by Fenrir before this. Therefore, they commissioned the dwarves to forge a chain ...
Warg. In the philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth fiction, a warg is a particularly large and evil kind of wolf that could be ridden by orcs. He derived the name and characteristics of his wargs by combining meanings and myths from Old Norse and Old English. In Norse mythology, a vargr (anglicised as warg) is a wolf ...