**Stanza 48:** Jörmungandr ins mentioned in relation to the events at Ragnarok.
‘Hrymr drives from the east, heaves his shield before him,
Jǫrmungandr writhes in giant-rage;
the snake lashes waves, and the eagle shrieks,
the fallow-nosed one tears corpses, Naglfar breaks loose.
**Stanza 54:** Jörmungandr is names as “Miðgarðr’s guardian” and “the snake” in relation to the fight against Thor at Ragnarok.
‘Then comes the glorious child of Hlóðyn,
Óðinn’s son goes to fight against the wolf(?);
he strikes Miðgarðr’s guardian in anger;
all men will abandon the homestead;
Fjǫrgyn’s son goes nine steps,
expiring(?), from the snake unapprehensive of the dark moon(?)
**Title:** Jörmungandr is referred as **“**Miðgarðsormr” (Miðgarðr’s Snake).
“Þórr fished for the Miðgarðsormr”
**Stanza 22-23-24:** Þórr fishes and strikes Jörmungandr.
22. The one who saves men, the snake’s lone slayer,
baited the hook with the ox’s head;
it gaped at the hook, the one whom gods hate,
the girdle of all lands, from below.
23. Deed-brave Þórr daringly dragged
the venom-gleaming snake up to the gunwale;
with his hammer he struck from above the extremely hideous
high-mountain of hair68 of the wolf’s birth-brother.
24. Reindeer-monsters roared, and stony grounds resounded,
all the ancient earth shuddered;
then that fish sank into the sea.
Chapter 27-34(p.26): Jörmungandr is introduced as the second of Loki's three monstrous children with the giantess Angrboda.
With her Loki had three children. One was Fenriswolf, the second Iormungand (i.e. the Midgard serpent), the third is Hel.
Chapter 34(p.27): Odin casts the young serpent into the sea, where it grows to an immense size, encircling all the lands and biting its own tail.
‘Then All-father sent the gods to get the children and bring them to him. And when they came to him he threw the serpent into that deep sea which lies round all lands, and this serpent grew so that it lies in the midst of the ocean encircling all lands and bites on its own tail.
Chapter 47(p.45): In the hall of Útgarða-Loki, Thor tries to lift a giant cat, which is revealed to be the Midgard Serpent in disguise.
‘For that cat was not what it appeared to you: it was the Midgard serpent which lies encircling all lands, and its length was hardly enough for both its head and its tail to touch the ground. And so far did you reach up that you were not far from the sky.
Chapter 48(p.47): The full narrative of Thor's fishing trip to catch the Midgard Serpent is told. He hooks the serpent, but the giant Hymir cuts the line before Thor can kill it. Snorri notes that despite tales of Thor striking off its head, the serpent still lives.
Then Hymir said they had got so far out that it was dangerous to be further out because of the Midgard serpent. [...] The Midgard serpent stretched its mouth round the ox-head and the hook stuck into the roof of the serpent’s mouth. [...] But I think in fact the contrary is correct to report to you that the Midgard serpent lives still and lies in the encircling sea.
Chapter 51(p.53-54): At Ragnarok, the Midgard Serpent will come ashore in a rage, causing the oceans to flood the land. It will fight Thor, and they will kill each other.
Then the ocean will surge up on to the lands because the Midgard serpent will fly into a giant rage and make its way ashore. [...] Thor will be victorious over the Midgard serpent and will step away from it nine paces. Then he will fall to the ground dead from the poison which the serpent will spit at him.
Chapter 52-53(p.56): After Ragnarok, the surviving gods will discuss past events, including the story of the Midgard Serpent.
Then they will all sit down together and talk and discuss their mysteries and speak of the things that had happened in former times, of the Midgard serpent and Fenriswolf.