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 Gods had, the third was made with six mythical objects giving it an almost magical resilience. When the Gods approached with this third challenge, Fenrir was suspicious. He would allow them to put the restraint on only if someone was willing to put their hand in his mouth as a show of good faith that this wasn't a trick. Týr, one of the Gods, would then step forward believing it was the only way to get Fenrir to agree, and avoid this horrible fate for Odin. In a moment, Fenrir was bound by restraints which grew tighter with each struggle, and Týr lost his right hand. In later writings, the prophecy would still come to fruition. Fenrir would be freed thanks to his two offspring, Sköll and Hati, devouring the sun and moon. Odin would then face Fenrir as one of the events of Ragnarök, and be killed. As a result, Odin's son Víðarr would avenge his father, and be the one to end Fenrir.

For this sculpt, I decided to go with the moment after Fenrir broke the second chain. The story gets kinda graphic after that point, and I didn't really want to sculpt a wolf like that. I hope you all like the finished model!