Event
Vidar Avenges Odin
Vidar sets his foot on Fenrir’s lower jaw and tears the wolf’s mouth apart, answering Odin’s death.
Overview
Vidar Avenges Odin is one of the Ragnarok combat turns that is not only a death. After Fenrir swallows Odin, Vidar steps forward, plants his shoe on the wolf’s lower jaw and tears the upper jaw apart. Odin’s death is not erased, but answered by another divine generation.
Relationships
- Fenrirgathers the vengeance
The event Vidar Avenges Odin gathers the response after Fenrir swallows Odin.
Story appearances
- RagnarokVengeance event
Vidar Avenges Odin gathers the doom relation between Odin, Fenrir and Vidar.
Ancient sources
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- 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, Poetic Edda, Vafthruthnismol, Bellows stanzas 44-53, Lif and Lifthrasir, the sun’s daughter, Vidar and Vali, Modi and Magni, Odin’s doom and Vidar’s vengeance