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Angrboða (Old Norse: [ˈɑŋɡz̠ˌboðɑ]; also Angrboda) is a jötunn in Norse mythology. She is the mate of Loki and the mother of monsters. [ 1 ] She is only mentioned once in the Poetic Edda ( Völuspá hin skamma ) as the mother of Fenrir by Loki .
The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).
The giant advised him to go to the giant region of Ironwood. After being brought there by Angrboda, Atreus learned of soul magic and transferred the soul of a giant to the body of a dead snake, which later became Jörmungandr. The younger Jörmungandr then joined the siege of Asgard, where he battled Thor before he was knocked back in time.
Loki and his three children by Angrboda were all bound in some way, and were all destined to break free at Ragnarok to wreak havoc on the world. He suggests a borrowed element from the traditions of the Caucasus region, and identifies a mythological parallel with the "Christian legend of the bound Antichrist awaiting the Last Judgment". [64]
Warning: This story contains major spoilers for "Fourth Wing" and "Iron Flame," the first two books in Rebecca Yarros' "Empyrean" series. The following text has been faithfully transcribed from ...
In the Homeric telling of the story, [4] Orestes is a member of the doomed house of Atreus, which is descended from Tantalus and Niobe.He is absent from Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon, returns from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra as his concubine, and thus not present for Agamemnon's murder by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra.
Pelops and Hippodamia had many sons; two of them were Atreus and Thyestes. Depending on myth versions, they murdered Chrysippus, who was their half-brother. Because of the murder, Hippodamia, Atreus, and Thyestes were banished to Mycenae, where Hippodamia is said to have hanged herself. Atreus vowed to sacrifice his best lamb to Artemis.
The hagiography of the 16th Century Blessed Sebastian de Aparicio includes the account that in his youth, his life was saved in a seemingly-miraculous way by a wolf. During an outbreak of the bubonic plague in his town in 1514, his parents were forced to isolate him from the community in quarantine , and built a hidden shelter for him in the ...