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Article: Fenrir
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- Myths and Legends of the World
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Fenrir
Fenrir, a monstrous wolf, was one of three terrible children of the Norse
* trickster
god Loki and the giantess Angrboda. Their other children
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Jormungand, a giant serpent, and Hel, the goddess of the dead
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were thrown out of Asgard, the home of the gods, by Odin
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. But Odin felt that the gods should look after Fenrir.
In time, Fenrir grew incredibly large, and only Odin's son Tyr was brave enough to approach and feed him. The gods finally decided to chain the beast, but Fenrir broke the two huge chains they made to restrain him. Asked by the gods to create something that would hold Fenrir, the dwarfs produced a silky ribbon called Gleipnir. To make it, they used the ...