Angrboda |
Angrboda or Augurboda ("Herald of Sorrow") was a giantess and the mistress of Loki. By him, she was the mother of three monsters: When her three children became to powerful, the Aesir banished them: Jormungand was threwn into the sea (by Odin); Tyr bound the wolf Fenrir with the noose Gleipnir; and Hel was banished into Helheim, where she became its ruler. Sometimes Angrboda was identified with the giantess Aurboda (but they aren't definitively one and the same!).
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