Skoll’s Family Tree

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Family

• Fenrir(parent),Hati(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

• Sol

  Sköll, son of Fenrir, endlessly pursues Sól across the sky. At Ragnarök, when Fenrir breaks free, Sköll finally catches and devours the sun, plunging the world into darkness.

Slew

• Sol

  At Ragnarök, Sköll finally catches and devours Sól the sun, an event foretold since the beginning of his eternal chase across the sky.

Associated with

• Angrboda

  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.