Móði and Magni
Sons of Thor, survivors of Ragnarök, embodying wrath and strength.
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Móði and Magni are two sons of the Norse god Thor.[1] According to Simek (1987), the names Móði and Magni are respectively interpreted as "Wrath" and "Strength".[1]
Quick Facts
- Mythology
- Norse
- Parents
- Thor; Magni's mother is the jötunn Járnsaxa; Móði's mother is an unnamed female jötunn (possibly Járnsaxa)
- Names mean
- Móði: 'Wrath'; Magni: 'Strength'
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Key facts and history
Magni is the son of Thor and the giantess Járnsaxa.[2] In the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, Magni appears in the myth of Thor's battle with the giant Hrungnir.[2] After Thor killed Hrungnir with Mjöllnir, the giant's foot lay over Thor's neck.[2] All the Æsir came and could not lift the foot off Thor.[2]
Magni, then three nights old, cast the foot off Thor.[2] Thor gave Magni the horse Gold-Mane, which Hrungnir had possessed.[2] Odin said Thor did wrong to give the good horse to the son of a giantess.[2] John Lindow draws a parallel between Magni and Odin's son Váli, as both have a giantess mother and achieve a feat at a very young age.[2]
Apart from his role after Ragnarök, nothing else is known about Móði.[2]
References
- Wikipedia, "Móði and Magni" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Simek 1987. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Móði and Magni" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lindow 2001. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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