Váli, one of Loki's two sons by Sigyn. The one who is transformed into a wolf by the Æsir, who turns on his brother and tears out his entrails, which are then used to bind Loki beneath the earth. He's named only once by Snorri Sturluson in the Prose Edda and it may have been a mistake, but the idea of him started haunting me in college; I made one abortive attempt to write about him then and had to come back to it almost a decade later. I'm willing to believe that more fiction that includes him exists. I have just never personally run across it.
(There are no wolves in Iceland. To the point where there was an April Fool's about it this spring. They have only ever existed in mythology. And Váli, in my story.)
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Váli, one of Loki's two sons by Sigyn. The one who is transformed into a wolf by the Æsir, who turns on his brother and tears out his entrails, which are then used to bind Loki beneath the earth. He's named only once by Snorri Sturluson in the Prose Edda and it may have been a mistake, but the idea of him started haunting me in college; I made one abortive attempt to write about him then and had to come back to it almost a decade later. I'm willing to believe that more fiction that includes him exists. I have just never personally run across it.
(There are no wolves in Iceland. To the point where there was an April Fool's about it this spring. They have only ever existed in mythology. And Váli, in my story.)