{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml15_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml15_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml15_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/tml/tml15.htm","summary":"This is a chapter from *Teutonic Myth and Legend* (1912) by Donald A. Mackenzie, a popular retelling of Norse mythology in the tradition of Victorian and Edwardian mythographic prose. The chapter recounts how Odin, forewarned by prophecy that Loki's three monstrous offspring \u2014 the Midgard Serpent, Hel, and the wolf Fenrir \u2014 would bring about the gods' destruction, acts preemptively: casting the serpent into the ocean encircling the world, hurling Hel into the underworld realm she then rules, and orchestrating the elaborate binding of Fenrir with the magical cord Gleipner. The binding of Fenrir is the chapter's centerpiece, depicting Tyr's sacrifice of his right hand as surety to the wolf, who rightly suspects trickery, and the subsequent chaining of the beast in a desolate gulf until Ragnar\u00f6k. The chapter closes with a portrait of Tyr himself \u2014 god of war, commander of the Valkyries, and patron of warriors' sword-runes \u2014 drawing on both Norse and Saxon traditions. Mackenzie's retelling is notable for its earnest, quasi-epic narrative voice and its inclusion of verse charms and kennings (such as the river Von flowing from Fenrir's howling wound), positioning the myths as coherent heroic literature rather than fragmentary folklore. The work is aimed at general readers seeking an accessible synthesis of Germanic myth, rather than scholars.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Teutonic Myth and Legend: Chapter X. Loke's Evil Progeny","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","translated_text":null,"word_count":2120}