Sunday, January 13, 2013

Loki's offspring



Q: It says in the Lore that Loki sired monstrous children with the giantess Angrboda. Is this true?

A: Laeviss says as part and parcel of the label argh, Loki became known for producing such children, as "everyone knows" that sorcerers, eunuchs, male seid workers and gender-variant men who engage in passive homosexuality produce monstrous magical offspring, usually wolves, serpents and deformed or lame children. Loki, being a god, therefore had super-monstrous and super-deformed children! Better stay away from the freakish sorcerer lest his afflictions be visited upon your own house!
Seriously, though, these children of Loki are real, though metaphysically born rather than materially born. Born of Angrboda, a giant and therefore an ancient force of nature (whose name means "herald of grief" or "foreboding anger"), these children are his daughter Hel and his sons Jormungand (the giant serpent that encircles the world) and Fenrir (the gigantic wolf.) Laeviss does indeed claim metaphysical paternity of these children, and reminds us that "Hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned."
It is said that Angrboda resides in the Ironwood, an appropriate place for "wolves" who subsist in the utangard, outside the realm of society. Angrboda (as Iarnvidia, the Hag of the Ironwoods) also is said to be the mother or grandmother of the wolf Managarm, "he that is named Moon-Dog." Managarm is said to be the wolf that "steals the sun from the sky."

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