Fenrir (Old Norse ‘fen-dweller’) or Fenrisúlfr (Old Norse “Fenrir’s wolf”, often translated “Fenris-wolf”), also referred to as Hróðvitnir (Old Norse “fame-wolf”) and Vánagandr (Old Norse ‘monster of the [River] Ván’), is a monstrous wolf in Norse mythology. Fenrir, along with Hel and the World Serpent, is a child of Loki and female jötunn Angrboða. He is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, composed in t