Mánagarmr is the mightiest of Fenrir's wolf-spawn, bred in the Ironwood by the old giantess who raises all the great wolves destined to darken the skies at Ragnarök.
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.
Mánagarmr dwells in Járnviðr, where Völuspá stanza 40 places the mightiest wolf among the brood raised by the Ironwood giantess.
Mánagarmr will swallow the moon and drench the heavens with blood at Ragnarök, as described in Völuspá stanza 40 and Gylfaginning chapter 12.
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