Angrboða
Mother of Fenrir · Mother of Jörmungandr · Mother of Hel
Angrboða in Norse tradition
Fire failed to destroy Angrboða. After the attempt, her half-burnt heart rose again in bodily form. She dwelt in the Ironwood as the “old one”. There she fostered Fenrir’s kinsmen, who later left the wood at Ragnarök and attacked Midgard.
Her name meant “the one who brought grief”. Loki fathered Fenrir, the Midgard serpent and Hel with Angrboða. She was their mother and nourisher. She was also linked with beings associated with witchcraft, bloodthirst and hatred of the gods.
The quick answers
Who is Angrboða?
Angrboða is a Norse being.Source
Source
- Dictionary of northern mythology
What family links are recorded for Angrboða?
3 children.
Angrboða’s family, at a glance
The names Angrboða answers to
Angrboda
Variant spelling of Angrboða
SourceDictionary of northern mythology
The Giantess in Járnviðr
The giantess associated with the Ironwood
SourceDictionary of northern mythology
Where Angrboða is mentioned
Mentioned in
Stories elsewhere on MythSource that mention Angrboða, each on that figure’s page.
- Baldr’s Dreams of Death · on Baldur
- Hel’s Birth and Appointment · on Hel
- The Birth and Casting of Jörmungandr · on Jörmungandr
- Hel's Dominion · on Jötnar
- Loki and Angrboða's Children · on Jötnar
- Loki and Angrboða’s Children · on Loki
2 works catalogued
This catalogue brings together reviewed connections and candidates for Angrboða: reworks first, then references, then names used as atmosphere. A row is not proof by itself. Reviewed connections appear in Overview, beneath a story or under The wider mythology.
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- God of War RagnarökRework
- God of War: RagnarökRework
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