Loki's Offspring by Emil Doepler 1905
"Loke had yet more children. A giantess in Jotunheim, hight Angerboda. With her he begat three children. The first was the Fenris-wolf; the secon, Jormungand, that is, the Midgard-serpent, and the third, Hel."
-Prose Edda/Gylfaginning, Chapter 34
Emil Doepler illustration from Walhall: Die Götterwelt der Germanen (The Gods of the Teutons) 1905. Hel, Fenrir and Jörmungandr. The figure in the background is presumably Angrboða. |
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https://boudicca.de/site/de/gmedia-album/emil-doepler/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lokis_Gez%C3%BCcht.jpg
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:548462
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