Part one of term paper
is one of the major deities in the Norse pantheon. He is a son of the giant Farbauti ("cruel striker") and the giantess Laufey. He is regarded as one of Aesir, but is on occasion their enemy. He is connected with fire and magic, and can assume many different shapes (horse, falcon, fly). is handsome and has a friendly appearance, but an evil ...

Part two of term paper
... Angrboa who are Fenrir, Jormungandr and Hel. He is the father to all of these children. He has also conceived a child with the stallion Svailfare, Sleipnir, and lastly he has given birth to the giantess Hyndla after having eaten the burnt heart of a dead woman. Rooth points to similarities between Snorri´s account of ´s bestial children and that of mediaeval conceptions of the biblical origins of evil. as the father of great supernatural beings corresponds to Cain as the origin of monsters an ...