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10 THE FENRIS-WOLF.

was a mischievous fellow. He was always getting the other gods into trouble. Sometimes they shut him up. But they always let him out, because he was so cunning that he could help them to do things they could not do for themselves.

Once he crossed the rainbow bridge to Jotunheim, the land of the giants, and brought home a giantess for his wife.

Very strange children Loke had. One of them was the Fenris-wolf. He was named Fenrer. All the gods knew he was a wolf as soon as they saw him.

But he went about among the children, playing with them like a good-natured dog, and the gods thought there was no harm in him.

Fenrer grew larger and larger, and the gods began to look at him with distrust. They feared he might some day grow too strong for them.

But Fenrer always looked good-natured, and harmed no one. He did not even show that he