Angrboda (Old Norse Angrboða 'Harm-foreboding') appears in Norse Mythology as a giantess. She is mentioned in the Eddic poems only in the Shorter Völuspá (in some edition included in the Hyndluljóð) as the mother of Fenrir by Loki. However, she is also (by Loki) mother of Fenrir's siblings, Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent, and Hel, ruler of the underworld. Snorri Sturluson in his Prose Edda (in the Gylfaginning) calls Angrboda a "giantess in Jötunheimr" and mother by Loki of Fenrir, Jörmungandr, and Hel. As indicated following, she may be identical with Iárnvidia 'She of Iron-wood' mentioned in the list of troll-wives in Snorri's nafnaþulur. This is the approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century. ... Jump to: navigation, search Norse or Scandinavian mythology refers to the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. ... The Lay of Hyndla or Hyndluljóð is an Old Norse poem of the same type as those in the Poetic Edda, but in corrupted form, and it is only preserved in Flateyjarbók. ... Fenrir biting off Tyrs arm In Norse mythology, The Fenrisulfr or Wolf of Fenrir, usually known simply as Fenrir in English, was a monstrous wolf, the son of Loki and the giantess Angrboda. ... Jump to: navigation, search This picture, from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript, shows Loki with his invention - the fishing net. ... Thor goes fishing for the Midgard Serpent in this picture from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript. ... Snorri Sturluson (1178 â€“ September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. ... The Younger Edda, known also as the Prose Edda or Snorris Edda is an Icelandic manual of poetics which also contains many mythological stories. ... External links Original text English text Categories: Mythology stubs | Medieval literature | Sagas of Iceland | Norse mythology | Nordic folklore ... Jotunheim is the world of the giants (two types: rock and frost, collectively called Jotuns) in the Norse Mythology. ... Thor goes fishing for the Midgard Serpent in this picture from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript. ... In Norse mythology, Hel is the queen of Helheim, the Norse underworld. ... Jump to: navigation, search Trolls with an abducted princess (John Bauer, 1915) A troll is a fearsome member of a mythical anthropomorph race from Scandinavian folklore. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nafnaþulur is a listing of various categories, such as gods, giants, people and objects, in Snorri Sturlussons Prose Edda. ...

The eddic poem Völuspá (stanzas 40–41 in most editions) speaks of a giantess dwelling in Járnvid ('Iron-wood') whom commentators usually identify with Angrboda (and the Iárnvidia of the list of troll-wives): Voluspa or Völuspá means The Prophecy of the Seeress and tells the story of the creation and coming destruction of the world related by a völva or seeress in what could be described as a shamanic trance to Odin. ...

The giantess old       in Ironwood sat,
In the east, and bore       the brood of Fenrir;
Among these one       in monster's guise
Was soon to steal       the sun from the sky.

There feeds he full       on the flesh of the dead,
And the home of the gods       he reddens with gore;
Dark grows the sun,       and in summer soon
Come mighty storms:       would you know yet more?

Snorri's Gylfaginning gives a prose explanation and a variant form of these stanzas. Brodeur's translation renders: External links Original text English text Categories: Mythology stubs | Medieval literature | Sagas of Iceland | Norse mythology | Nordic folklore ...

A witch dwells to the east of Midgard, in the forest called Ironwood: in that wood dwell the troll-women, who are known as Ironwood-Women [Iárnvidjur]. The old witch bears many giants for sons, and all in the shape of wolves; and from this source are these wolves sprung. The saying runs thus: from this race shall come one that shall be mightiest of all, he that is named Moon-Hound [Mánagarm]; he shall be filled with the flesh of all those men that die, and he shall swallow the moon, and sprinkle with blood the heavens and all the lair; thereof-shall the sun lose her shining, and the winds in that day shall be unquiet and roar on every side. So it says in Völuspá: Midgard (The common English transliteration of Old Norse Miðgarðr), Midjungards (Gothic), Middangeard (Old English) and Mittilagart (Old High German), from Proto-Germanic *medja-garda (*meddila-, *medjan-, projected PIE *medhyo-gharto), is an old Germanic name for our world, the places inhabited men, with the literal meaning middle enclosure...

Eastward dwells the Old One       in Ironwood,
And there gives birth       to Fenrir's brethren;
There shall spring of them all       a certain one,
The moon's taker       in troll's likeness.

He is filled with flesh       of fey men.
Reddens the gods' seatsvwith ruddy blood-gouts;
Swart becomes sunshinevin summers after,
The weather all shifty.       Wit ye yet, or what?

In stanza 13 of the eddic poem Baldrs draumar Odin says to the prophesying seeress whom he has brought up from the dead: Baldrs draumar (Dreams of Baldr) is an Eddic poem, contained in the manuscript AM 748 4o. ...

No wise-woman art thou,       nor wisdom hast;
Of giants three       the mother art thou.

This might refer to Angboda as mother of the three monsters. The seeress states that she will never be charmed from the dead again until Loki is loosed from his bonds.

The name is sometimes rendered in English as Angerboda.

See Gullveig for details of arguments by which Viktor Rydberg in his Teutonic Mythology identified Angrboda with Gullveig. In Norse mythology, Gullveig (seemingly gold drink or gold might) is a mysterious goddess or giantess who is said have been burned three times in Odins hall, to have been three times born, and to live yet as a seeress performing dark magic. ...