When Hymir refuses to provide Thor with bait, Thor strikes the head off Hymir’s largest ox to use it. Jörmungandr and Thor meet again when Thor goes fishing with the giant Hymir. If Thor had managed to lift the cat completely from the ground, he would have altered the boundaries of the universe. Many watching became fearful when they saw one paw lift off the ground. Útgarða-Loki later explains his deception and that Thor’s lifting the cat was an impressive deed, as he stretched the serpent so that it almost reached the sky.
Thor grabs the cat around its midsection but manages to raise the cat only high enough for one of its paws to leave the floor. Útgarða-Loki goads Thor into attempting to lift the World Serpent, disguised by magic as a huge cat. In one story, Thor encounters the giant king Útgarða-Loki and has to perform deeds for him, one of which is a challenge of Thor’s strength. There are three preserved myths detailing Thor’s encounters with Jörmungandr: Lifting the cat For example, continental Germans attributed earthquakes to his movements well into the Middle Ages.
Jörmungandr likely already featured in the religion of the original Germanic tribes, as evidenced by his existence in the later pre-Christian religions of different branches of the Germanic peoples. There are also several image stones depicting the story of Thor fishing for Jörmungandr. Other sources include the early skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa and kennings in other skaldic poems for example, in Þórsdrápa, faðir lögseims, “father of the sea-thread”, is used as a kenning for Loki. The major sources for myths about Jörmungandr are the Prose Edda, the skaldic poem Húsdrápa, and the Eddic poems Hymiskviða and Völuspá. Jörmungandr’s arch-enemy is the thunder-god, Thor. When it releases its tail, Ragnarök will begin. As a result of it surrounding the Earth, it received the name of World Serpent. The serpent grew so large that it was able to surround the Earth and grasp its own tail. According to the Prose Edda, Odin took Loki’s three children by Angrboða-the wolf Fenrir, Hel, and Jörmungandr-and tossed Jörmungandr into the great ocean that encircles Midgard (the visible world). In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (Old Norse: Jǫrmungandr, pronounced, meaning “huge monster” or “great beast”), also known as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent, is a sea serpent (or snake or dragon) and the middle child of Loki and the giantess Angrboða. Jörmungandr (the Midgard Serpent) gets fished by an ox head from the 17th century Icelandic manuscript AM 738 4to This runestone is identified as U 871 at Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Also known as a “snake” (ormr) or “dragon” (dreki), lindworms were popular motifs on runestones in 11th-century Sweden. There are nine great lindworms in Norse mythology: Jörmungandr, Níðhöggr, Grábakr, Grafvölluðr, Ofnir, Svafnir, Grafvitni and his sons Góinn and Móinn. The Gesta Danorum contains a description of a dragon killed by Frotho I.Fáfnir, a slithering ormr in the Poetic Edda, is turned into a limbed dragon as part of the Völsung Cycle.Jörmungandr, also known as the Midgard Serpent, is described as a giant, venomous beast.It is the only winged dragon in the Poetic Edda, and in Paul Acker’s view “is likely a late, perhaps even Christian, addition to the otherwise pagan cosmology” of the poem. Níðhöggr is identified as a dragon in the Völuspá.The term dreki was also applied to the great Viking longships, where the prow, when carved in the likeness of a dragon, was meant to protect and impart ferocity upon the sailors. But it also refers to a more recent romanesque winged dragon, that often breathes fire and has four legs. The word dreki is a loanword from the Greek and Latin form of dragon and is used in Old Norse in different ways: It is a heiti (synonym) for the great earthbound serpent-monster appearing in Germanic tradition as ormr or linnormr (lindworm). Norse mythology has several references to dragons (Old Norse: dreki).
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