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is one of the major deities in the Norse pantheon. He is a son of the giant Farbauti ("cruel striker") and the giantess Laufey. He is regarded as one of Aesir, but is on occasion their enemy. He is connected with fire and magic, and can assume many different shap ....

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.... conceptions of the biblical origins of evil. as the father of great supernatural beings corresponds to Cain as the origin of monsters and giants. ´s bestial children are strongly connected with the escathology of the eddas. Fenris and Jormungandr as well as their father both play crucial roles in the last battle between the Aesir and their enemies. His daughter Hel falls into a somewhat different category. She is the queen of Helheim, and gathers there her army of the evil dead. Of ´s parents, Farbauti and Laufey, I know very little. Rooth suggests that the names carry symbolical meaning: "Farbáuti,...,which is considered to mean the wind, ....