Angrboda
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or Angerboda, ('Distress-bringer'), in Germanic mythology, was a frost giantess. She was the mistress of Loki and the mother of three monstrous offspring: the wolf Fenrir, the serpent Jormungand, and a daughter named Hel. When the gods heard about this brood, they agreed that such creatures must be dealt with quickly. A group of gods broke into Angrboda's hall at night, bound and gagged her, and took her and Loki's children to Asgard.
Odin first banished Hel to the 'world beneath the worlds' and there he put her in charge of all the inglorious dead. He then hurled Jormungand into the ocean, where the huge snake smashed through the ice and sank down into the depths. Odin was less certain what to do with Fenrir, so at first he decided that the gods should keep an eye on him at Asgard. However, when the Norns, the goddesses of destiny, warned that the wolf would bring about Odin's death action was finally taken to bind Fenrir securely with a magic chain and keep him in captivity.
Although Angrboda's children were thus contained, Odin knew that the wolf Fenrir would break free at Ragnarok, the day of doom, and destroy him. The sea serpent Jormungand also awaited the final conflict, like his sister Hel 'surrounded by corpses and swirling death-mist' in the netherworld. A tenth-century Danish complaint about Odin's withdrawal of luck from brave warriors is answered in terms of Angrboda's brood. Odin is supposed to have said that 'the grey wolf watches the halls of the gods'. With this threat in mind, he had no choice but to gather to his side the greatest champions.