Nidhogg

Titles:

Malice Striker, Corpse Chewer, Gnawer of Yggdrasil

Culture:

Proto-Germanic / Norse

Kin:

Typhon (kindred spirit)

Appearance:

Nidhogg is depicted as a long, slender dragon or serpent with razor sharp teeth. His lips and face are caked with the blood of the corpses and the world tree on which he gnaws.

Purpose/Role:

• Nidhogg dwells in Niflheim, where he gnaws and degrades the roots of Yggdrasil from below
• Yggdrasil suffers a great deal at the hands of the living creatures it supports, but Nidhogg is perhaps the taxing of them all
• While not defined as a punisher per se, Nidhogg is most known for his interaction with the inhabitants of Náströnd, the Shore of the Dead
• There he chews and sucks the blood of the corpses of Norsemen guilty of murder, adultery and oath-breaking
• In Old Norse, the term níð refers to a social stigma associated with loss of honour and reduction to the status of a villan

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