Click to enlarge FIG. 1. FIG. 2. FRAGMENT FROM KIRK ANDREAS.
ODIN AND THE FENRI WOLF. Lastly (pl. X.), I show a very
interesting little piece from Andreas. Unfortunately, like so
many others, it is but a fragment. One face (fig. 1) bears,
below the right arm of the cross, a figure of a Man with a Spear
attacked by a Wolf; above his shoulder a Raven. Undoubtedly this
is Odin, 1 who meets the monstrous Fenri Wolf in the dreadful
Day of Doom, of which we are told by the Sybils in "Volu-
spa":--"The Ash of the Steed of the Hanged One shall quiver, and
there shall be no part of heaven and earth that shall not then
tremble for fear. The Anses shall put on their harness, and all
the host of the Elect (Einherjarnir), and go forth to the field.
Odin shall ride first with his golden helm and his fair mail-
coat, and his spear that is called Gungnir (Tusker). He shall
challenge the Wolf Fenri. . . . The Wolf shall swallow Odin, and
that shall be his bane." Then she relates how "straightway Widar
(the silent) shall dash fo