Ratatoskr
Norse · numen · primordial · Recorded classification
The load-bearing structure of the Norse universe is being slowly destroyed by two parties who have never met, because a squirrel is telling each of them what the other said. There is no other cosmology in this registry in which the mechanism of cosmic decay is gossip, and the registry did not have him.
Domains
- slander
Relations
- enemy: NíðhöggrHe is the messenger and, on the standard reading, the instigator: the quarrel he carries is a quarrel he is stoking.Reference treatment of Ratatoskr carrying insults to Níðhöggr at the root. (secondary)
Sources
- Ratatoskr is the squirrel that runs the trunk of Yggdrasil carrying insults between the eagle at the crown and Níðhöggr at the root, and is generally read as stirring the quarrel up rather than merely reporting it.: Reference treatment of Ratatoskr and Yggdrasil. (secondary)