In the end, the gods went to the dwarves for their help. They made a rope called Gleipnir , containing the roots of a mountain, the breath of a fish, the sound of a cat's footfall, the sinews of a bear, the beard of a woman and the spittle of a bird, all of which were impossible items to obtain.
This weak-looking rope was offered to Fenrir and, suspecting it to be a trick, he asked for a god to place his arm in the wolf's mouth. Myths and Folklore Wiki Explore. For their third attempt, the gods had the dwarves forge the strongest chain ever built, which nevertheless gave the appearance of being very light and even soft to the touch. When the gods presented Fenrir with this third fetter, he became suspicious, and he refused to be bound with it unless one of the gods would stick his or her hand in his mouth as a pledge of good faith.
Only Tyr was brave enough to do this, knowing that it would mean the loss of his hand. At Ragnarok , he will break free and run throughout the world with his lower jaw against the ground and his upper jaw in the sky, devouring everything in his path.
He grew so huge that it was said that when he opened his mouth, his jaws reached to heaven and earth. When he reached adulthood, he began to go on killing sprees, devouring everything in his path, and he was large and strong enough that no chain could hold him. The Aesir tried, first with a magical chain called Laeding and then with one called Dromi, but he broke each in turn.
Then the Aesir hired the Duergar to forge a chain out of gold melted with six impossible things the roots of a mountain, the beard of a woman, the footfall of a cat, the breath of a fish, the nerves of a bear, the spittle of a bird , and chained him.
The story of how he was chained is told in Kevin Filan's essay on Fenris elsewhere on this site, but suffice it to say that he now dwells in a cave under a mountain on Lyngvi's Island in Lake Amsvartnir in Niflheim.
There he waits, broods, and occasionally flings himself against the chain and the blade holding him, and waits for the day when he can break loose and wreak his revenge. Easy to demonize, yes … and it would be folly to do so.
The mystery of Fenris is not an easy or uncomplicated or straightforward thing. People who are still instinctively dividing up the world into good or bad as whether it causes them pain or inconvenience are not ready for his mystery. Fenris is, in many ways, Jotun essence taken to its furthest point, its ultimate uncompromised end. This means understanding that when we say that the Jotnar are, by nature, part of nature Every part of nature is dangerous and not terribly disposed to privilege humans over any other part.
The sea eats people, the fire lays waste to countrysides, the ice storm freezes you, the earth will receive your corpse and fill it with maggots. Subsequently, Odin commanded the other Gods to journey into Jotunheim and bring the three siblings to him.
When they arrived in Asgard, Odin proceeded to throw Jormungandr into the ocean of Midgard and banish Hel to Helheim after giving her authority over the dead. The Gods noticed that Fenrir was rapidly growing bigger with every passing day, which only made them more fearful of him due to the prophecy that the wolf would bring them great harm.
Thus, they decided to try and imprison Fenrir. The Gods then forged the fetter chain Leyding. Bringing the chain to the wolf, the Aesir suggested he test his strength with it. Judging that the chain was not beyond his strength, Fenrir let the Gods bind him with it. With the first kick, the binding snapped and the wolf freed himself. The Gods then forged a second chain twice as strong as Leyding, which they named Dromi.
Confident that this chain would imprison the wolf, they once again approached him.
0コメント