Angrboda
Angrboda ( to Angrboða: "messenger of fear, -bringerin; cause of grief") is a giant in Norse mythology .
In connection with Loki, she gives birth to three children: the giant wolf Fenrir , the Midgard snake Jörmungand and the goddess of the dead Hel . Because of the danger that the children represented to the gods, Fenrir was bound with the shackle Gleipnir , Jörmungand was thrown into the sea by the sir and Hel banished into the underworld, where she rules the dead.
Angrboda is often equated with the "Alten vom Eisenwald" (Alte im Jarnvidr) of the Völuspá . As such she gave birth to "the brood of Fenrir " Hati and Skalli as well as Managarm .
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Angrboda is mentioned in the Edda in Hyndlalied 37 and in Gylfaginning 34.
Ol vlf Loki vid Angrbodu,
enn Sleipni gat vid Suadilfara;
eitt þotti skars allra feiknazst,
þat var brodur fra Byleistz komit.
Loki fathered the wolf with Angurboda, he received
the Sleipnir from Swadilfari.
A monster seemed the most abominable: it
was created by Bileisti's brother.
- - Hyndluljóð 37
“Enn átti Loki fleiri börn. Angrboða hét gýgr í Jötunheimum. Við henni gat Loki þrjú börn. Eitt var Fenrisúlfr, annat Jörmungandr, þat er Miðgarðsormr, þriðja er Hel. "
“Loki had other children. Angurboda was the name of a giant woman in Jötunheim: Loki fathered three children with her: the first was the Fenris wolf, the other Jörmungandr, ie the Midgard snake, the third was Hel. "
- - Gylfaginning 34
Austr sat in aldna í Járnviði
ok fœddi þar Fenris kindir;
verðr af þeim öllum anna nökbewerb
tungls tjúgari í trolls hami.
To the east the old
woman sat in the iron bushes and fed Fenrir's family there.
Of them all, one will be the worst:
The moon's murderer in superhuman form.
- - Völuspá 32
literature
- Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X .
