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O-Six (named after the year of her birth). [3] was for several years [2010 - 2012] the dominant breeding female of the Lamar Canyon pack in Yellowstone National Park.Born in 2006 in the Agate Creek pack to Agate Creek Wolves #113M (born a Chief Joseph Wolf in 1997) and Wolf #472F (born a Druid Peak wolf in 2000), [4] [5] [6] she was principally known by the year of her birth. [7]
The name Geri has been interpreted as meaning either "the greedy one" or "the ravenous one". [1] The name Geri can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic adjective *geraz, attested in Burgundian girs, Old Norse gerr, Old Swedish giri, Old High German ger or giri and Old Dutch gir, all of which mean "greedy". [2]
The alpha female of the wolf pack. Maugrim: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis: Chief of the White Witch's Secret Police. Nighteyes The Farseer Trilogy: Robin Hobb: Nitka Shasta of the Wolves: Olaf Baker: Runt Runt: Marion Dane Bauer: The runt of King and Silver's litter of four cubs and a black pup with a white star on his chest.
Wolf or Wulf is used as a surname, given name, and a name among Germanic-speaking peoples. "Wolf" is also a component in other Germanic names: Wolfgang (wolf + gang ("path, journey")) Adolf, derived from the Old High German Athalwolf, a composition of athal, or adal, meaning noble, and wolf; its Anglo-Saxon cognate is Æthelwulf.
Asena is the name of a she-wolf associated with the Gokturk foundation myth. [1] The ancestress of the Göktürks is a she-wolf, mentioned yet unnamed in two different "Wolf Tales". [ 2 ] The legend of Asena tells of a young boy who survived a battle; a female wolf finds the injured child and nurses him back to health.
Odin kept two wolves, Freki and Geri, their names both meaning "Greedy"; and in the final battle that destroys the world, Ragnarök, Odin is killed and eaten by the gigantic wolf Fenrir. Thus, Burns points out, wolves were both associates of Odin, and his mortal enemy. She argues that Tolkien made use of both relationships in The Lord of the Rings.
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The Wolves Pursuing Sól and Máni by J. C. Dollman, 1909 Far away and long ago by Willy Pogany, 1920. In Norse mythology, Sköll (Old Norse: SkÇ«ll, "Treachery" [1] or "Mockery" [2]) is a wolf that, according to Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, chases the Sun (personified as a goddess, Sól) riding her chariot across the sky.