episode

Binding of Fenrir

Myth & story

The Norse scene of the wolf bound with Gleipnir and Tyr’s hand. Not gleipnir as a fetter object alone, and not every wolf being.

Norse tradition

  • Binding of Fenrir appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning narrates the binding of the wolf Fenrir with Gleipnir and Týr’s lost hand. A named wolf-binding episode in that prose, not gleipnir as the fetter object alone and not a wolf being dump.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.