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mynorse-verse · 2 months ago

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During Lokasenna Loki had been boasting about Fenrir, the wolf. So likely one of his sons was turned into one because of that reference, or the guy already worked as an ulfhednar, and those worked for Odin, so...

The snake was Skadi's idea. Jötun women are associated with snakes in general (ie. One gives birth to Jörmungändr, another uses snakes as reins etc.)

do u ever think about how Odin had the two animals that loki's children are take part in the family's punishment. like he turned one of the twins into a WOLF to disembowel the other, he had a SNAKE drip the acid. like wtf man

#norse mythology #nári #váli lokasson #oh and both the names of those two are related to the dead. Corpse and Slain #they might have lived in Náströnd punishing the evil ones #now how are those punished in Náströnd? By being eternally devoured by wolves and/or having snakes spit poison on them inside a cave #does that ring a bell?#and that's not only taking into account parallelisms between Hel and the one whose bowels are used to chain Loki—Nári—#and the whole funeral narrative of Loki's punishment of the cave with that of Baldr's whom Loki had admitted murdering by manipulating Hödr #it's all very narratively satisfying #and very tragic

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