Nidhoegg

["Bertil Häggman" <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

>Bertil, you´re right it isn´t a hawk but an eagle. And of course I was
>talking about Nidhoegg but I thought it was a snake. I was probably wrong
>since I was talking from memory. Could it be possible that the Nidhoegg was
>first a dragon and then, because of christianism, it became a snake?


Dani,

Nidhoegg is a dragon, but in one source
at least is described as a flying dragon
that transports dead bodies. If you check
Voluspa, the final lines, you will, however,
actually find the dragon described flying
over the plain of bodies after Ragnaroek
as a "fogdark, shining snake" which sweeps
the dead bodies along with its feathers.
Voluspa was completed some time between
900 and 1000, so there could well be
a Christian influence.

The three springs undoubtedly are based
of the sacred three number.

Juengerian greetings

Bertil