Managarm

Snorri tells about a hound named Managarm ("Moon-Hound"), which was born in a wood called Ironwood by an old witch, that gave birth to many wolf-like giant-children. It's not sure if this witch was Angrboda, and Managarm was Hati (which, in this case, was another name of Fenrir) or a child of Fenrir and another giantess.

According to the Prose Edda, Managarm ate the flesh of dead men and will swallow the moon and sprinkle with blood the heavens and all the lair; thereof-shall the sun lose her shining, and the winds in that day shall be unquiet and roar on every side (Gylfaginning XII).

From Hati we know that he'll swallow the moon at Ragnarok, therefore it is very propably that Snorri's Managarm is the Hati of the Poetic Edda.

The Poetic Edda says: "The giantess old | in Ironwood sat,
In the east, and bore | the brood of Fenrir;
Among these one | in monster's guise
Was soon to steal | the sun from the sky."
(Völuspá)
In this stanza it's very clear, that "the Brood of Fenrir" were Hati and Skoll, the two hounds that swallowed the moon and the sun

Another story's that Managarm brought the Einherjar to Valhalla.

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