Gleipnir

Gleipnir ( anord. Devourer ) is in Norse mythology, a special magical thread that was made ​​by dwarfs to the Fenris Wolf to chain to a rock. He was prepared according to the tradition of things that do not exist anymore since then: the sound of the passage of the cats, the beards of women, the tendon of the bears (probably are hereby but not the chords but the nerves and the sensation of pain to the bear meant ), the roots of the mountains, the breath of fishes, and the spittle of birds. Can rid the Fenris Wolf only at Ragnarök, when he pulls against Odin into battle and kills him.

  • Subject of the Germanic mythology
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