FENRIR, or FENRIS

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FENRIR, or FENRIS , in Scandinavian mythology, a water-demon in the shape of a huge

wolf

. He was the offspring of Loki and the giantess Angurboda, who bore two other children, Midgard the serpent, and Hel the goddess of death. Fenrir

grew

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

so large that the gods were afraid of him and had him chained up. But he broke the first two chains. The third, however, was made of the

sound

SOUND
SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

of a cat's footsteps, a man's

beard

BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger.
Bart
- BART, JEAN (1651-1702)
, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge,
beak
- BEAK (early forms
  beke
  - BEKE, CHARLES TILSTONE (1800-1874)
  and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the
  English
  - ENGLISH
  )
of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New
English
- ENGLISH
Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

, the roots of a

mountain

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical
mons
- MONS (Flemish Bergen)
, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

, a fish's breath and a bird's spittle. This magic bond was too strong for him until Ragnarok (Judgment Day), when he escaped and swallowed Odin and was in turn slain by Vidar, the latter's son.

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