Prism Prints - Fenrir - Norse Mythology

  For this project, I made Fenrir: A giant wolf in Norse Mythology, and one of Loki's three children who is foretold to kill Odin during the events of Ragnarök. Fenrir is mentioned in both the Poetic Edda, and the Prose Edda through multiple texts. In Gylfaginning, a main part of the Prose Edda, the story of how Fenrir was tricked and locked up by The Æsir, a group of Gods consisting of Odin, Thor, Freyja, and several others, is written about in a few chapters. A prophecy told to Odin, in which he'll be eaten by Fenrir during Ragnarök prompted the Æsir to come up with a plan to imprison the wolf in some way. He couldn't just be killed by the Gods since he was also born in Asgard. Under the guise of "testing one's strength," they challenged Fenrir with three increasingly strong "fetters," or restraints. After the first two chains were broken out of, the Æsir conspired with the Dwarves to make a chain that would get the job done. Since Fenrir was powerful enough to break any binding the