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Ratatöskr the Ebilness Squirrel
Nidhoegg
Legacy Name: Nidhoegg
The Bloodred Serpenth
Owner: Skadi
Age: 9 years, 7 months, 6 days
Born: September 21st, 2014
Adopted: 9 years, 7 months, 6 days ago
Adopted: September 21st, 2014
Statistics
- Level: 26
- Strength: 30
- Defense: 12
- Speed: 11
- Health: 13
- HP: 13/13
- Intelligence: 28
- Books Read: 28
- Food Eaten: 0
- Job: Tombstone Cleaner
The poem GrÃmnismál identifies a number of beings which live in Yggdrasill. The tree suffers great hardship from all the creatures which live on it. The poem identifies NÃðhöggr as tearing at the tree from beneath and also mentions Ratatoskr as carrying messages between NÃðhöggr and the eagle who lives at the top of the tree. Snorri Sturluson often quotes GrÃmnismál and clearly used it as his source for this information.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nidhogg (Old Norse NÃðhöggr, literally “Curse-striker†or “He Who Strikes with Maliceâ€) is the foremost of several serpents or dragons who dwell beneath the world-tree Yggdrasil and eat its roots. This is highly injurious to the tree, which holds the Nine Worlds of the cosmos. Nidhogg’s actions have the intention of pulling the cosmos back to chaos, and he, along with his reptilian cohort, can therefore surely be classified among the giants (or, as they were called in pre-Christian times, “devourersâ€).From this it would make sense for Nidhogg to have a prominent role in Ragnarok, the cyclically recurrent event in which the giants succeed in destroying the cosmos. This does indeed seem to be the case. In one especially important Old Norse poem (the Völuspá or “Insight of the Seeressâ€), Nidhogg is described as flying out from beneath Yggdrasil during Ragnarok, presumably to aid the giants’ cause.Later in the same poem, Nidhogg is also said to preside over a part of the underworld called Náströnd (“The Shore of Corpsesâ€) where perjurers, murderers, and adulterers are punished. However, this conception of the afterlife as marked by moral retribution is totally foreign to the indigenous worldview of the Norse and other Germanic peoples, and must be an instance (one of many) of Christian influence upon the poem.
From http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/giants/nidhogg/
Pet Treasure
Dead Person
Boot with Foot Inside
Stolen Rotten Leg
Stolen Rotten Arm
Harvested Brains
Harvested Eyeball
Harvested Glob of Snot
Harvested Heart
Harvested Congealed Blood
Harvested Lung Piece
Chunk of Infected Meat
Stuffed Stomach
Harvested Chunk of Liver
Harvested Length of Intestine
Stolen Pieces of Bone