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Nidhogg
Nastrond (beneath Yggdrasil)
Danger Level: 8/10
By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. About the author. Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.
Abilities
Corpse ConsumptionRoot GnawingDecay Aura
Lore & Legend
Gnawer at the Root
Nidhogg is the dragon under Yggdrasil who chews the tree's root and, in Voluspa, flies up from Nidafjoll bearing corpses at the end of the world. Snorri parks him at Nastrond among oath-breakers. He is decay with a name, not a hoard-dragon of the Sigurd type.
The squirrel Ratatoskr carries insults between Nidhogg and the eagle above — a postal service of spite.
Primary Sources
“There Nidhogg sucks the corpses of the dead; the wolf tears men.”