Managarm
Managarm ( old Norse Mánagarmr ; German "moon dog") is a dog from Nordic mythology .
mythology
According to the younger Edda, he is the son of the giantess Angrboda , an old woman who lives in the iron forest. Managarm walks the earth devouring the flesh of the dead while his brother Hati pursues the moon and his brother Skalli the sun. At Ragnarök , the end of the world , Hati sets the moon and Managarm, who has become the largest and strongest of his brood through the corpse flesh, devours him. The blood of the moon splatters and darkens the sun.
According to another tradition, the wolf Hati will devour the moon himself, while Managarm has to watch languidly (as punishment for eating his corpse). Managarm has similarities with the legendary figure of Garm , the dog who guards the Hel underworld .
Trivia
- The Swedish metal band Månegarm is named after Managarm .
- In the video game ARK: Survival Evolved he plays the role of a dragon-technology hybrid as Managarmr , which can be found in the DLC Extinction .
literature
- Padraic Colum: Nordic Gods and Heroes . Dover Publications, London (UK) 2012, ISBN 9780486119359 , p. 209.
- Angus A. Somerville, R. Andrew McDonald: The Viking Age: A Reader, Second Edition (= Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures series). University Press, Toronto 2014 (2nd Edition), ISBN 9781442608702 , p. 240.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manegarm's band biography on archive.org .
- ↑ Andreas Zintzsch: The unofficial ARK manual :: Survival Evolved & Addons . Bildner Verlag , Passau 2019, ISBN 9783832853884 , p. 252.