ORIGIN: Nordic [Icelandic] and Germanic
TYPE: Chthonic Underworld Goddess
INFORMATION: The daughter of Loki and the giantess Angrboda, and the sibling of both the Midgard worm who will cause the sea to flood the world with the lashings of his tail, and of Fenrir, the phantom wolf who will swallow the sun, at Ragnarok. She is queen of the Otherworld, also known as Hell, and she takes command of all who die, except for heroes slain in battle, who ascend to Valhalla. In some mythologies she is depicted as half black and half white. She was adopted into British mythology.