Exactly what the title says it is.
This is adapted from Monsters and Villains of the Movies and Literature by Gerrie McCall, Dragons: Fearsome Monsters from Myth and Fiction by Gerrie McCall, and Mythical Monsters by Chris McNab.
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LEGS: The long, slender legs are muscular, allowing Fenrir to chase prey for long periods without tiring.
BODY: The wolf grows at an alarming rate that frightens even the Norse gods. They fear he will grow large enough to devour the sun. JAWS: Fenrir's upper jaw reaches the sky and his jaw and his lower jaw touches the Earth when he opens his mouth. EARS: Able to hear a twig snap across the continent of Europe, Fenrir's keen hearing grows ever sharper as his body increases to enormous proportions.
A prophecy states that the gigantic wolf Fenrir and his family will one day destroy the world. Even the gods fear Fenrir, the child of a giantess and Loki, the Father of All Lies. Odin, the chief god in Norse mythology, hopes to tame Fenrir, but all the other gods shrink at the sight of the wolf. Only Tyr, the god of war, is brave enough to feed the rapidly growing beast. Fenrir's size and fierceness increase daily. The gods bind the hungry wolf in chains, but twice he breaks loose. Elves create a magic ribbon that will hold Fenrir. The powerful wolf does not trust the gods and senses the ribbon may contain magic beyond his powers.
Fenrir insists that one of the gods place a hand in his mouth as a gesture that no magic will be used against him. Tyr is the only one brave enough to place his hand in the wolf's mouth. When Fenrir realizes he cannot break the magic ribbon, he bites off Tyr's hand. Fenrir fights against his restraints, but the gods prop open his mouth with a sword to keep him from biting. The blood and drool that run from his jaw form a rushing river.
DID YOU KNOW?
Fenrir bursts free to take revenge during Ragnarok. He belches fire and smoke, creating clouds of deadly vapors that fill Asgard and Earth with his poisonous breath.
Fenrir defeats Odin by growing larger and larger as they fight. Once Fenrir's jaws embrace all the space between Asgard and Earth, he swallows Odin whole.
Odin's son Vidar steps on Fenrir's lower jaw, seizes the wolf's upper jaw in his hands, and rips the dreadful monster in half.
The unbreakable ribbon spun by the elves to hold Fenrir is made of a mountain's roots, a woman's beard, a cat's foootsteps, a fish's voice, a bird's spittle, and a bear's sinews.
