Episode 10 - Fenrir the Fearsome Fiend

In the future the world as we know it will be destroyed. But this can't happen before we introduce all the major players. In this episode we'll discuss the origins of Hel, the World Serpent, and the monstrous wolf Fenrir, and we'll see how the way Fenrir became an enemy of the gods is all too easy to misunderstand without the proper context of the Norse world view. What does it mean to be an outcast? What does it mean to have your fate decreed by prophecy? And could things have gone another way? Let's find out together.

Sources:

• “Fate” by John Lindow in “Pre-Christian Religions of the North” Volume II, 2020
• “Norse Mythology” by Neil Gaiman, 2017
• “Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs” by John Lindow, 2001
• “The Historical Development of Basic Color Terms in Old Norse-Icelandic” by Jackson Crawford, 2014
• “The Níðingr and the Wolf” by Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen, 2011
• “Wolves, Serpents, and Birds: Their Symbolic Meaning in Old Norse Belief” by Anne-Sofie Gräslund, 2004
• “The Poetic Edda”, transl. by Carolyne Larrington, 2014
• “The Prose Edda”, transl. by Anthony Faulkes, 1995

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Music:

Celebration by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com). Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/