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Ginnungagap: Pretty empty page. Active at end of last year. Little in talk page. Little to no mythological context of the term.

Sun Wukong: Lack enough citations, Many recent revisions--active page. Tone is a bit choppy, inconsistent.

Jormungandr article draft
One of the signs / portents of the coming of Ragnarok is the violent unrest of the sea due to the serpent which lives in the seas tries to climb onto the land. Fenrir will blaze one side of the world with fire, while the serpent will take the other half and fill the skies and seas with poison. (207-208) <--- add by underline. Fenrir and Jormungandr will join the sons of muspell into the plain Vigrid.

Thor will take on the serpent, but will die by its poison.

underlines= my edits

In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (Old Norse: Jǫrmungandr, pronounced [ˈjɔrmunˌɡandr̥], meaning "huge monster"), also known as the Midgard (World) Serpent (Old Norse: Miðgarðsormr), is a sea serpent, the middle child of the giantess Angrboða and Loki. According to the Prose Edda, Odin took Loki's three children by Angrboða—the wolf Fenrir, Hel, and Jörmungandr—and tosses Jörmungandr into the great ocean that encircles Midgard. < added The serpent grew so large that it was able to surround the earth and grasp its own tail. As a result, it received the name of the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent. When it releases its tail, Ragnarök will begin. Jörmungandr's arch-enemy is the thunder-god, Thor. It is an example of an ouroboros.

The major sources for myths about Jörmungandr are the Prose Edda, the skaldic poem Húsdrápa, and the Eddic poems Hymiskviða and Völuspá. Other sources include kennings in other skaldic poems. For example, in Þórsdrápa, faðir lögseims, "father of the sea-thread", is used as a kenning for Loki. There are also image stones from ancient times depicting the story of Thor fishing for Jörmungandr.

Lifting the cat
In one stone, Thor encounters the giant king Útgarða-Loki and has to perform deeds for h im. O ne of which was a challenge of Thor's strength. Útgarða-Loki goads Thor into lifting the serpent disguised by magic in the form of a colossal ca t. T hor grabs the cat around the middle of its belly but is unable to lift such a large and monstrous creature as Jörmungandr. He manages to raise the cat high enough for only one of its paws to lift from off the floor. Útgarða-Loki expresses how the result was expected and later explains his deceptio n. He acknowledges Thor's lifting of the cat as an impressive deed as he stretched it so that it almost reached the sk y. Many watching became fearful when they saw one paw lift off the ground. If Thor had managed to lift the cat completely from the ground, he would have altered the boundaries of the universe. (added

Thor's fishing trip
Jörmungandr and Thor meet again when Thor goes fishing with the giant Hymir. When Hymir refuses to provide Thor with bait, Thor strikes the head off Hymir's largest ox to use as his bait. They row to a point where Hymir often sat and caught flat fish and where he drew up two wh ales. Th or demands to go further out to sea and does so despite Hymir's protest. Thor then prepares a strong line and a large hook and baits it with the ox head, which Jörmungandr bites. Thor pulls the serpent from the water, and the two face one another, Jörmungandr dribbling poison and blood. Hymir goes pale with fear. As Thor grabs his hammer to kill the serpent, the giant cuts the li ne le aving the serpent to sink beneath the waves and returns to its original position encircling the earth. <added. In earlier Scandinavian versions of the myth, Thor successfully captures and kills the serpent by striking it on the head. <add

This encounter with Thor shows to have been one of the most popular motifs in Norse art. Four picture stones that have been believed to have depicted the myth are the Altuna Runestone, Ardre VIII image stone, the Hørdum stone, and the Gosforth Cross. A stone slab that may be a portion of a second cross at Gosforth also shows a scene of a man fishing for a serpent-like creature using an ox head. These stones did not agree on the myth's conclusion as some had displayed scenes of the serpent escaping by the giant and some of its death. The Ardre VIII image stone depicts a man entering a house where an ox is standing, and another scene showing two men using a spear to fish. The image on this stone is dated to the 8th or 9th century. <added If the stone was correctly interpreted as a depic tion of this myth, it would demonstrat e that the s ame or a similar version of the myth remained unchanging for a period of about 500 years prior to the recording of the version in the Prose Edda around the year 1220. <add.

Final battle <---change title to Ragnarok?????
One sign for the coming of Ragnarök is the violent unrest of the sea as Jörmungandr releases its tail from its mouth and thrashes its way onto the land. Fenrir will set ablaze one half of the world with fire while Jörmungandr sprays poison to fill the skies and seas of the other half. Fenrir and Jörmungandr will then join the sons of Muspell into the plain of Vigrid. < added Here is where the last meeting between the serpent and Thor is predicted to occur. Thor will become occupied with battling the serpent and is unable to help others as they fight their own battles. He will eventually kill Jörmungandr but will fall dead after walking nine pac es, having been poisoned by the serpent's deadly venom. <add