Vidar’s Family Tree

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Family

• Grid(parent),Odin(parent)— Consort

  Odin and the giantess Gríðr produced Víðarr the Silent, destined to avenge his father by tearing apart Fenrir's jaws at Ragnarök.

Enemy of

• Fenrir

  Víðarr and Fenrir are fated enemies at Ragnarök — after the great wolf devours Odin, the silent god plants his iron-soled shoe on Fenrir's lower jaw and tears the beast apart, avenging his father.

  ⚠ Völuspá 54 describes Víðarr stabbing the wolf to the heart, while Gylfaginning 51 gives two variants: tearing the jaws apart or stabbing through the palate.

Slew

• Fenrir

  Víðarr avenges his father Odin by planting his thick-soled shoe on Fenrir's lower jaw and wrenching the great wolf apart at Ragnarök.

  ⚠ Völuspá 54 has Víðarr stabbing the wolf to the heart; Gylfaginning 51 describes tearing the jaws apart or stabbing through the palate.

Member of

• Aesir

  The Æsir are the principal tribe of Norse gods who dwell in Asgard, including both native members and Vanir hostages received after the Æsir-Vanir War, as catalogued in Gylfaginning.

Associated with

• Ragnarok

  Víðarr avenges his father Odin at Ragnarök by destroying Fenrir, then walks alive into the renewed world that rises from the sea, one of the few gods to survive the twilight of the old order.

  ⚠ Völuspá 54 describes stabbing the wolf to the heart; Gylfaginning 51 gives tearing the jaws apart or stabbing through the palate as variants.