Loki and the giantess Angrboða produced three monstrous offspring — Fenrir, Jörmungandr, and Hel — whom the gods scattered across the worlds after learning they were fated to destroy them at Ragnarök.
Hati Hróðvitnisson, the wolf who chases the moon across the sky, is counted among the monstrous brood raised by Angrboða in the Ironwood from Fenrir's line.
⚠ Völuspá 40 names the old woman in Járnviðr who breeds Fenrir's kin but does not explicitly identify her as Angrboða; the identification is widespread in scholarship but not directly stated in the text.
Mánagarmr, the mightiest of wolves, was bred in the Ironwood by the old giantess Angrboða. At Ragnarök he will swallow the moon and drench the heavens in blood.
⚠ Völuspá 40 names only 'the old one in the Ironwood' without identifying her as Angrboda; the identification rests on Snorri's separate statement in Gylfaginning 34 that Angrboda bore Fenrir's brood.
Odin sent the gods to seize Angrboða's monstrous children — Fenrir, Jörmungandr, and Hel — from Jötunheim after prophecies foretold they would bring ruin to the Æsir.
Sköll, the wolf who pursues the sun, springs from the line of Fenrir and was raised in the Ironwood by the giantess Angrboða alongside his brother Hati.
⚠ Völuspá 40 names the old woman in Járnviðr who breeds Fenrir's kin but does not explicitly identify her as Angrboða; the identification is widespread in scholarship but not directly stated in the text.
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