The wolf becomes gigantic, and the gods are afraid of him. They tie him up and he breaks free, they re-tie him with even larger chains and he breaks free again, until no one can bind him. Then, they ask the dwarves to make a chain that cannot be broken, and they create Gleipnir, a light and silky ribbon that nobody could break, as it was made with the sound of a cat’s footsteps, a woman’s beard, and the roots of mountains… We wanted to contact the dwarves to make our still, but they only make impossible things..
When the gods ask Fenrir if they can bind him with the chain, he refuses as he does not trust them. They appeal to his pride, saying “You who are so great…” and he agrees, but one of them must put their hand in his mouth as a pledge in case he cannot break free
Then the god Tyr puts his hand into his mouth (this moment is the one that our friend, the illustrator David Pintor, captured on our label) and of course, he loses it, so they placed a sword in his mouth so that he couldn’t bite “and from his mouth flowed the river Ván,” hence the name Ván A Gandr, the monster of the river Ván.
All of this was in vain, as on the day of Ragnarök, Vánagandr broke his chains and killed Odin, causing the fall of the gods and the end of times… But was he born evil or made evil?… Either way, we have always liked the villains of history much more.
All of this was in vain, as on the day of Ragnarök, Vánagandr broke his chains and killed Odin, causing the fall of the gods and the end of times… But was he born evil or made evil?… Either way, we have always liked the villains of history much more.
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