Angrboða the Jötunn (1200 to 1399)

According to the Poetic and Prose Eddas, Loki’s wife Angrboða, whose name means “she who brings grief” was a female jötunn, a giantess, one of the race of giants who live in the world known as Jötunheimr, having been refused entry into Asgard by the Aesir gods. The Eddas differ on exactly which children she had with Loki, but the Prose Edda states that their children were: 1) Fenrir, the monstrous wolf that will kill Odin during Ragnarök; 2) Jörmungandr, the World Serpent who will kill Thor at Ragnarök, 3) Hel, who presides over the dead in Hell. As such, Angrboða represents the mother of the creatures who will bring about the end of the current world, a fairly frightening image, although as Ragnarök was unavoidable it’s difficult to know what exactly most Vikings thought of this giantess. (2 to 4 board match)