Exploring Norse Mythology: The Children of Loki 

The Asgardians probably got very nervous anytime Loki was missing for more than nine months.

Fenrir wasn't a threat to Odin until he was betrayed and chained out of fear. Besides his rapid growth, Fenrir showed no form of hostility towards anyone around him. It wasn't the beast that was the threat. It was the prophecy that created fear that was the threat.

Atreus: *Gets fùcked by his own horse.* Kratos: BOY!

The story of Fenrir shows once more that dog's only get aggressive if one mistreats them. So if we learn one thing from Norse Mythology it is: "Be good to your dog or it will devour you during Ragnarok!"

Fenrir's story - monsters aren't born, they're created

It is interesting how cause and effect is explored through Loki's children. If the Gods had merely continued to raise Fenrir would he have turned hostile at all? Likewise with the Jörmungandr? Was Ragnarök ultimately a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Edit:Read the replies before correcting me. Loki got mounted by a horse and now Odin rides his grandchild, what a weird family. edit holy heck this got a crapton of upvotes, thanks y'all

I find fenrir ironic, as he lived among the gods only to be betrayed out of fear for his power, and that in the end is why Odin dies, there own sins befell them, Honestly the Norse gods were kinda jerks, making promises of marriage only to betray, ect ect, sorta jerks.

Odin: Loki, find some way to get us out of this agreement. *later* Good job. You did it by becoming a mare? Bit weird but whatever works. The horse did WHAT? And you just gave birth to a mutant freak horse? That sounds terrible... you know I've been needing a new ride...

I feel like Loki and his baby mamas/daddies have more drama than the entire Greek pantheon

Thor: what the heck Loki?! Loki: *I do what I want*

I think the point of Fenrir is that, while mean and somewhat abrasive, he was at his core good, or at least loyal to the Aesir, and the binding incident is what made him the god's enemy. had Odin not been paranoid his death would possibly be avoided.

The part that Fenrir bits off Tyr's arm is a bit off, the deal between Fenrir and Tyr was that Fenrir would try to break free from the rope/chain, but if he could not break free the gods would set him free by taking off the rope/chain, but when the gods saw that Fenrir could ot break it and excape, they let him there to be tied forever (as they thought), so Tyr knew what Fenrir had to do, and Fenrir then, after the Gods did not set him free as their part of the deal, Fenrir bit off Tyr's arm as a compensation, and this was one of Odins' mistake, he made Fenrir their enemies, because of fear he helped the Ragnarok to exist.

Being a devotee to Hela (which is Hel’s Teutonic spelling), I will share some more things about her. She is known to be cruel and greedy, this is only half true about her. Being both living and dead, she is two extremes within one mass. She is by far the most devoted to humans, and is the only goddess who can withstand seeing someone at their lowest point and not flinch. She is compassionate, but she never will sugar coat anyrhing or beat around the bush. Also, despite her being cruel by mocking you or insulting you when you are down, she is really helping you get back up on your own. Lastly, about her apperance and its symbolic meaning. Ultimately, Hela is a mirror; what you project she throws back at you; at first the two sides are balanced. When you interact with her, one side becomes more prevalent than the other.

One big "Happy Family" Monsters aren't born, they're made.

Loki World's best horse mom

Way more interesting than the Marvel Thor and Loki to be honest...

Big Pupper Danger Noodle Spider horse Help

Most of these prophecies seemed like they were self fulfilling prophecies. If the Gods didn’t do those horrible things to Loki’s children they probably wouldn’t have had an cause to start Ragnarok.

Thor: "This booze tastes like saltwater!" Utgard-Loki: "Uhhhh, yea that's totally how we like it, no tricks here!"

and I thought I had a dysfunctional family

. . .Is it just me, or are Norse mythology prophecies just a lot of self-fulfilling prophecies, and the Norse gods not once considered that?

Kratos: my grandchildrens.

This is why in Buddhism the Devas, or Gods, are said to still be subject to karmic cause and effect. If Fenrir and Jormundgandr weren’t ill-treated, would this happen? If Fenrir didn’t bear grudges, would all of this happen? This is why, personally, whilst I acknowledge the power and wisdom of the Norse deities be it Aesir, Vanir or Rökkr, they, much like the Egyptian, Greek, Celtic, Mayan, Chinese, Hindu and even the Abrahamic angels and appropriate divinities are still stuck in this cycle of cause and effect. Only when one transcends ego and seeks out life in the Middle way between worldly pleasures and harsh asceticism, will one truly attain enlightenment.

The artwork you used in this video is really good. Love this series, hope that greek or celtic mythology is voted next

Finally someone else is thinking that Fenrir is not guilty

Love how the gods all just cast out all of Loki's weird children but then decided to keep the mutant horse for Odin. Like, bruh, you're not comfortable with a big dog, but you're comfortable around an eight-legged horse whose parents are literally Loki and a horse whose rider you tricked and murdered?

"BOY, stay away from the horses of the Jotun" "Why, dad?" "Just... just trust me on this one"

God of War 5 : Children of Loki

Kratos “BOI !!!!!!!!”

Odin and Loki were blood brothers but then odin betrayed loki so many times. when odin and tyr caught loki sneaking back to the castle from angrboda's place .odin ordered for the pilgrimage to angrboda's home. They took loki's 3 young children with angrboda to asgard. Jormungand the serpent,Fenrir the wolf and Hel. jormungad was sent to the oceans of midgard,Hel was tasked to rule nilhelm. they raised fenrir out of fear of the prophecy that fenrir will kill odin on the upcoming ragnarok. they deviced a plan to bind him when he grew up . since It was said that fenrir was well spoken he tried to fit in and loki was proud of him. When loki found out about the binding of his son he got angry.After some time there was a prophecy that baldr was going to die so frigg, odin and the other Gods tried to change baldr's fate.Loki was furious because of the other gods' hypocrisy that he helped hodr murder bladr the beloved son of odin. he was angry because the other Gods did not try to change the fate of his children and was eager to be rid of them. That probably was the start of his vengeance. Loki gave riches like the mjolnir to the norse pantheon through his good natured mischief but he was always blamed by the other Gods. poor loki ☹️

as I recall it the asgardian contest with utgaardsloke Thor is also armwrestling an old lady and losing, even when equipped with his magical belt and varmgreaves only to later discover that the old lady was old age in disguise

Sometimes attempting to prevent a bad future ends up causing it. If Odin didn't send Hel to the underworld, yeet Jörmungand into the ocean, and trick and bind Fenrir, do you think Ragnarök wouldn't have happened? Or at the very least, not had have their involvement?

I love Fenrir and I honestly feel bad for him.

It must have been so cool for Loki to have children it’s like rolling a dice what are we gonna get now?

I wonder what earthly challenges and elements these monsters represent? Fenrir sounds like a personification of winter, or perhaps of the winter storms the Norse had to deal with when they went a-viking.

Loki got pregnant? LOL

Anyone else here cause of the new God of War

I've been so interested in your videos that I've just ordered 'Norse Mythology' by Neil Gaiman, looking forward to diving in this weekend

I wonder if the prophecy of Ragnorak was a self-fullfilling prophecy. Had the gods treated Loki's children with one ounce of respect I don't think the hatred towards the Asgardian gods would have been there to even start Ragnorak. I think Loki was just seeking revenge in the end after seeing what the gods had done to him and his children really, for such a long time.

Ragnarök inst the end. It’s a new beginning. It goes in cycles. Just like life and that history repeats itself. Norse mythology isn’t literal.

"Loki is one of the most unique and enigmatic characters of Norse mythology." And....I finished liking the video.

Neil Gaiman’s book is wondeful, i picked it up to relive some childhood stories and fill my obsession for the myths. Makes me happy to see our mythologi still out there. The english names are a bit of a pain tho lmao

I hope you'll eventually explore the Norse mythology of the Dwarves! They are very vital to Norse myth and I wish to know why, if possible.

I'm quite impressed Jormangandr managed to disguise himself as a giant cat.

Loki has definitely giving new meaning to the term (CROSS GENDER).

In the tale of Thor doing the trials, he is also tasked with wrestling an old women but is ultimately beaten. Only later to find out the old women was old age itself. Just noticed you misses that last one so I thought I'd out it out there.

You deserve more subscribers. This channel is amazing 😉 congrats bro

the children of loki is in "The Ritual" movie he is like monster

Sigyn: Children of Loki?? Narvi, Vali come here a video about You----- Angrboda: The FAMOUS children of Loki. Sigyn: DAMN IT.

poor fenrir

The piece of writing at the end, mad it amazing.

God damn it Loki!

It is nice to be able to watch your content so quickly. Keep up with the good work! ;) Oh, and since there is no other comment right now: FIRST!!! ;P

thank u marvel for making Loki attractive

No idea why but i can't get enough of Fenrir. My favorite of the Loki's children

Great videos!!! Keep it up!!

The children of Loki with the giantess Angrboda were Fenrir, Jormungandr and Hel. Loki’s children with the giantess were feared and persecuted by the Aesir gods, and are destined to cause their destruction.

I weep for the children of Loki, come Ragnarok I'll be fighting to save them

So I'm in a bit of a debative mood and wanting to just talk about something I've always wondered about since first learning of the Norse Mythos as a kid. Please don't mind me just going off here like Red from OSP (Overly Sarcastic Productions) - whom I do think would be an AMAZING collaboration with The Exploring Series. :D The thing which always bothered me was a lot of the information we are given in the stories of how the Gods treated Loki's children could have prevented the overall events of Ragnarok, or at least offered a different ending. Don't get me wrong, Loki was an *ASS* for killing Balder and not mourning or regretting his actions, that's part of his character, but a lot of Odin's actions in particular around these seem quite petty and desperately thoughtless to me. It's in complete contrast with the character we see in many other stories, especially of how he sacrificed his *eye* for unimaginable amounts of wisdom, and has two Ravens and wolves that literally report to him on *everything happening in the world.* He's the Allfather, and is pretty clever- in some stories he's just as much of, if not even more of a trickster than Loki (he was prayed to by BANDITS and outlaws in favor of the God of mischief!). I could see it holding up to a lot of Nordic customs where Odin could fairly call Loki out for Balder's death, and if there were tales expressing the Trickster's offspring being a handful before everything that ocurred to them, or if they had a hand in Balder's demise, okay. But while they were Fierce, the Nords also believed in a sense of fairness that I feel just doesn't add up with the mythos. Odin cannot see his own actions are what spur his blood-brother's children to choose to fight against him in the end despite how much power and genius he supposedly has, and I feel like there is something about that that's just....off. * Hel is stated as indifferent to most, but gets locked in the underworld. Granted, we don't know why Odin gave her the power to control the Underworld, but did he really have to "throw her out of Asgard" when she never actually did anything to warrant being deemed trouble? If anything, I'd at least call it a promotion and offer a Goddess of such a place an open seat any time she wanted a glass of Mead or tea and some fresh air and try to be on her good side, especially when she even offers to bring back a murdered son if a condition is met without quarrel. * Fenrir was literally raised "amongst the gods" to try and tame him like Sleipnir, and up until that point has no history in the myths of wishing the Allfather ill will, then gets betrayed by the people he showed respect and trust to, and *has a sword driven through his pallet so if he swallowed he would get a sword to the brain after being chained and isolated.* This is an odd and frankly hostile choice of "justice" even for the Aesir in this point of the myths, and I'm *amazed* this has never been used as source material for pet abuse or child abuse awareness infomercials. The gods did what they could to stave off Ragnarock and Odin’s death for he is needed then. But Fenrir committed no crime before or at the time of his binding. Fear of what he COULD do is what caused his binding and subsiquent torture, and the one God who could have literally *"Seen"* a way around it is the one who did that. ---On that note, why would Odin keep Sleipnir if he was so paranoid of Loki's kids?! It just seems to me that the Gods created their own enemies, and a whole ton of bad could have been avoided if they (Odin especially) just stopped and thought for a minute. The prophecy created the situation which created the prophecy when the Oracle told would *could* happen, but not what was definite with the exception of the fact that not all of the pantheon would live to see a new world, because times change.

When Loki gets pregnet Kratos:BOI! WHAT kratos:youre..a boi right? Ugh... Idk

The child turned into a wolf was almost certainly Odin's son, Vali, changed by the power he granted to the ulfhednar (sometimes called berserkers, though this is historically inaccurate, with ulfhednar meaning "Wolf Cloak" and berserker "Bear Cloak.") There are two reasons for this: First, he had the same name as the Son of Odin as documented multiple places in both Edda, and the same mission of vengeance for Baldr's death. Second, and more interestingly, if the old story was not simply transcribed incorrectly by Snorri this would mean at least one of Odin and Loki's children were blood brothers. In the saga (dealing with historical figures) blood brothers were referred to by the Old Norse as if they were actual brothers sharing all the same parents. (Point of fact: Loki is described as "Son of Bestla" in several old norse texts; while Bestla is certainly Odin's mother in the tale, and Laufrey is Loki's. It was simply a kenning related to them being blood brothers.) This being the case Vali was almost certainly Odin's son and Nari/Narvi's blood brother, the one literally born to avenge baldr, and his being called a child of Loki was simply a kenning relating to their being blood brothers.

That image of Fenrir's mouth being held open by Odin's son is just... Ugh! I was disgusted by that but I watch The Walking Dead, for crying out loud!

He used very good references. If he had said anything that wasn't true, i would've been saying something. Im Asatru/Norse pagan. These are the stories I tell my children. I'm very well versed in Norse mythology. If i may make a video reqest, if you could make a video on the religion itself instead of just the stories. There's so much more to it than the stories and it's satisfying to hear someone talk about who the gods truly were instead of the modernised Marvel versions of them. Like i never hear about the golden apples of Idunn or about the customs and traditions of the followers of the gods. The way the Vikings actually lived instead of just the bloodshed. It's actually truly fascinating to hear. I'd make the video myself, but, i don't have the voice for it and I don't know how to do the videos with just a phone, and a phone has poor quality to do videos with. A good reference for it is "A Modern Guide to Heathenry" by Galina Krasskova. And another is "History of the Jonsvikings" by Lee M. Hollander.

Such a good video

Thank you for the video. Really enjoyed it! I just subscribed so I don't know I someone already asked you to do this, but have you considered showing on the screen some of the characters' names? They can be tricky to understand at times. Thank you.

You used an album cover from Amon Amarth!!! Sick!!

Tyr: You were my brother Fenrir, I loved you ;;-;; Fenrir: IHATECHYOU

Great videos

In my opinion Odin caused his own demise. He effectively saw that the prophecy would come true. His actions against the Fenris wolf are what caused the wolf to attack him in ragnarok. Might have been different if they befriended the wolf rather than make him an enemy. This is just my opinion

Loki got introduce to broke back mountain 😭😭

This video was fucking awesome. Keep up the good work man

Does anyone else find it funny that in an attempt to distract a horse, Loki got caught and ploughed by it.

Could you do a series on Irish Mythology if you could

Hel is still sort of invoked today in Norwegian (maybe other Scandivanian languages too, idk). "To death" in Norwegian is normally "til døde", but in some cases like "he bled to death", many will instead say "i hjel", which basically means "to Hel". "Hel" also means "whole" in Norwegian, but I don't think that actually has anything to do with the goddess.

The Age of Mythology game was in my view the most thrilling representation of Norse mythology. But perhaps that's just because that is where I came across it for the very first time.

Given Loki's mother Laufey was the queen of Jotenheim yeah I would say he's full Joten.

aaaaaand its all from iceland :D hi guys ! im proud !

In order to have children who will kill the Norse gods, Loki's wife must be pretty powerful.

I saw a tiktok about this and I’m legit so invested

Love your videos, your the best, would you ever make videos on Game Of Thrones history and lore?

I don't think when the snake rose his head out of the water wad a contradiction. I think THOR started Ragnork just and opinion lol

8:24 Adorable doggo

I know what Hells roll in ragnarök: she is the captain on the death-ship, Nagelfar!

Its comforting to know that my old and lost shoes will be of use to slay a beast....

Fenrir wasn't a villain he became one because they betrayed him.

Kratos: WHAT TEH FUK BOI?!?

So Loki shapeshifted into a female horse, got fuck and gave birth. DAMN!! That is some crazy shit.😞😞😞

Fenrisulfnr the Fen Wolf, was in no way vicious, He was bound when a false profit came and fooled Odin into binding his Grandson. I'm glad many are beginning to see this. They like me were mistreated for who their father is. Yet Fenrisulfnr like me has great potential and like me will one day be free of pain.

Dope!!!

Befriending loki was odin’s greatest mistake

His mother is full Jotun. Laufey( Loki's mom) was the last Jotun of Jotunheim

Spoiler alert. Loki father is Kratos.

Oh my dear boy the world ends when jormangander bites his tail

I love Fenrir!

Fenrir: imma flex and bust outta this

Boy!

Loki was into some freaky shit.

Freya: Loki weep for Baldur so that your daughter will return him to us. Loki: Fuck him... lol.

Quick fun fact. Hymir the Giant that Thor brought along on his fishing trip is the father of the Aesir god Tyr, the god of law and heroic deeds/glory