Hati’s Family Tree

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Family

• Fenrir(parent),Skoll(sibling)

  Sköll and Hati are the wolf-sons of Fenrir according to the Prose Edda. Sköll chases the sun and Hati the moon across the sky; at Ragnarök they will finally catch and devour them.

Enemy of

• Mani

  Hati, son of Fenrir, endlessly pursues Máni across the night sky. At Ragnarök, Hati catches and devours the moon, completing the darkness that accompanies the end of the world.

Slew

• Mani

  At Ragnarök, Hati finally catches and devours Máni the moon, plunging the world into total darkness alongside the loss of the sun.

Associated with

• Angrboda

  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.