#fenris wolf
I’m taking this latest wolf baby to my printer today to get scanned. (This was a WIP shot but I finished him up this weekend.) The drawing’s an inch or two larger than mine can handle.
Then I’m framing it for entry into a juried exhibit at Apartment Earth Gallery:)
Happy Moon-day!
Tiwar/Tiwaz is the rune of Tyr. It represents justice and law.
Oaths and vows show up frequently in Norse myths and sagas. They were binding and unbreakable.
In the story of Loki’s children, Tyr presented Loki’s son, the great wolf Fenrir, to the Odin and the Aesir to be bound by increasingly strong chains. To persuade the Fenris Wolf to agree to the final magically forged fetters, Tyr agreed to place his fist in the wolf’s maw. If the Aesir were tricking the wolf with the seemingly delicate binding, he could bite off Tyr’s hand.
When the wolf couldn’t break the spelled chains, Tyr paid the price without complaint, upholding his oath.
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Angrboda was a Jotunn witch who sowed seeds of discord wherever she went. She was responsible for provoking the lust for gold, and cheating and murders in Midgard. Acting on behalf of the Jotunns who desired to destroy the Aesir and Vanir, she had used her trickery to create a vast divide between the two. She was eventually discovered and burned for her actions, but she was not so easily destroyed. Her body burned away, but her heart did not. From these remains, Angrboda was able to resurrect herself in entirety. As long as her heart was intact, she could continue to revivify.
The executors promptly attempted to burn the witch a second and third time, but each time, she resurrected, burned, and the heart remained. Loki saw that this game would go on forever if they did not dispose of the heart, so before Angrboda could resurrect again, Loki rushed forward, pulled the heart from the flames, and swallowed it.
But even with that, Angrboda’s evil was not completely destroyed. From the heart he had swallowed, Loki gave birth to three beings: Fenriswulf, Midgardsormr (or Jormungandr, as it was called by the Jotunn), and Hela. Fenriswulf, a large grey wolf, would go on to bite off the hand of the battle god Tyr, herald the beginning of Ragnarok by escaping his bonds, and destroy Odin in the final battle. Midgardrsormr was a serpent who would grow so large he encircled the world, and in the final battle he would destroy the mighty Thor. Hela, a normal woman on one half of her body and a corpse on the other, was the only one of the three who was not destined for evil. She would go on to become caretaker for the dead who were not killed gloriously in battle, in the realm of Niflheim.
Angrboda’s evil also persisted in the tension she had introduced between the Aesir and Vanir. Despite her death, her actions still resulted in a war between the two. In this way, Angrboda had succeeded.
