Garm

Overview

Garm appears in the doom passages as a dangerous hound set loose. Voluspo repeatedly mentions Garm howling before Gnipahellir; chapter 51 has Garm fight Tyr, and both die. The hound joins binding, release and final combat.

Relationships

• Tyrmutual death

  Garm and Tyr fight, and both die.

Story appearances

• RagnarokHound fighting Tyr

  Garm and Tyr die together in the final battle.

• Baldrs Draumar: Odin Seeks an Answer in the UnderworldFigure, place, event, or creature in Baldrs Draumar

  The hound loosed in doom, who fights Tyr to mutual death in the final battle.

Ancient sources

MythWeave distinguishes ancient-source evidence from later adaptations and modern interpretation.

• Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda, Gylfaginning, Chapter 51, Odin and Fenrir, Vidar’s vengeance, Thor and Jormungandr, Freyr and Surtr, Tyr and Garm, Loki and Heimdall
• Anonymous, Poetic Edda, Voluspo, Bellows stanzas 40-58, wolves, Garm, Gjallarhorn, Yggdrasil, Hrym, Naglfar, Loki, Surtr, Odin and Fenrir, Vidar, Thor and Jormungandr
• Anonymous; translated by Henry Adams Bellows, The Poetic Edda: Baldrs Draumar, Stanzas 1–5: the gods consider Baldr’s dreams; Odin rides Sleipnir to Niflhel and works magic at a seeress’s grave.