 |             timbermaniac: Yay pagans! 12 years ago • Report 0  pugcasso: poor Fenrir...all bound up by those gods who tricked him. They heard that Fenrir would kill Odin in the final battle.......but I have a theory that their binding him made him so angry over time that it caused the eventual prophecy to be enacted - like a self-fulfilling prophecy . But that's just my speculation. Odin's ravens Huggin (thought) and Munnin (memory) are up in the tree looking at him. pugcasso: I've got the bloody hand of Tyr still dangling from Fenrir's jaws. The gods had tried to bind Fenrir (Fenris) before using incredible thick strong chains (always just convincing him it was merely a test of his power so he would go along with it) but the wolf broke those. So they got the dwarves to make a chain that would hold the wolf and they were shocked to see the finished result was just a puny thread. But it was magically and created using "things that don't exist" The sound of a cat's footfall The beard of a woman The roots of a mountain The 'nerves' of a bear* The breath of a fish The spittle of a bird * this one seems to often have some translation issues and is often seen implying physical sinews on some list. Other lists will mention it is better meant as "sensibilities" or the 'nervousness' of a bear The wolf was suspicious of being bound as a test by this thread (called Gleipnir) since it looked so thin. He agreed to it only on the condition that one of the gods put their hand in his mouth . If there was any trickery, the god would lose one of his hands. None of the gods wished to volunteer since they knew that the goal was to bind Fenrir for good and if this magical thread worked then they would surely lose a hand in revenge. Tyr, the god of 'single combat' (this seems to imply a 'personal combat' - perhaps based on personal emotions for fighting as opposed to the development of more organized armed groups) stepped forward and put his right hand (sword hand which I think is important) between the jaws of Fenrir. When the magical thread held and the struggling Fenrir was unable to break it, the giant wolf's only act of vengeance (until much later during Ragnarök) was to bite off the hand of the god Tyr. I have the hand of Tyr labelled with the 5 naked-eye planets known to the ancients. These are at the tips of the five fingers. More on that later. |
