Angrboda
Angrboda, the one who brings grief, is the giantess whom Gylfaginning 34 makes Loki's mate in Jotunheim and the mother of three: Fenrir, Jormungandr and Hel. Hyndluljod names her once as the mother of Fenrir by Loki; she has no myth of her own and no cult.
Angrboda is a giantess and not one of the asynjur, and is named in Gylfaginning 34 and once in the Poetic Edda (Hyndluljod); she is a mythic figure, not a cult deity. The old woman in Jarnvid who breeds wolves in Voluspa is often identified with her, but the poem does not name her - that identification is inference. No native Norse planetary rulership exists: the planetary correspondence is a modern / Hermetic overlay (Pluto for the mother of monsters), not an ancient Norse attribution.
Correspondences
- Planetary Correspondence
- Pluto
Offerings
- Offerings
- SaltWaterBreadAshes
Sacred timing
- Sacred Timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- AngrbothaThe Grief-BringerMother of Monsters
- Gender Expression
- Feminine
- Titles
- The Grief-BringerShe Who Bodes HarmMother of MonstersThe Giantess of Jotunheim
- Symbols
- WolfSerpentIron woodAsh
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneCold ambiguousAddressAngrbodaThe Grief-BringerMother of MonstersRelationshipThe foresight that knows what a union will produceWarningShe is a giantess and she is not on your side of the fenceResonanceThose working with inherited damage those who were born from a bad bargain
- Modern Practice
Angrboda is not a goddess to be served but a figure to be acknowledged: modern practice names her when the work is about inherited damage and the children of a bad bargain, and the offering is the plain acknowledgement rather than a petition. She is a giantess, and the corpus does not turn her into a cult deity.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- ShadowGriefThe wildMonstrosityInheritanceThe outsiderEndings
- Mythology Summary
Angrboda, the one who brings grief, is the giantess whom Gylfaginning 34 makes Loki's mate in Jotunheim and the mother of three: Fenrir, Jormungandr and Hel. Hyndluljod names her once as the mother of Fenrir by Loki; she has no myth of her own and no cult.
- Related Deities
- LokiHelJormungandrOdin
Details
- Correspondences
- ColorsBlackRedBrownScentsDragons bloodMyrrhPatchouliMetalsIronLeadAnimalsWolfSerpentRaven
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