The Frozen Lake

In Northern European mythology, the giant wolf Fenrir was the first child of the evil god Loki and the giantess Angrboda, elder brother to the World Serpent Jörmungandr and Hel, goddess of death. People saw him as "the monster that shook the earth."

Some said he represented ambition; others said he represented greed. At first, Fenrir was fluffy and adorable like a puppy, so the gods allowed him into their garden. But he grew bigger and bigger, becoming wild and unmanageable, a tremendous threat.

The dwarves forged an invisible magical chain from six rare things: the roots of mountains, the footsteps of cats, the breath of fish, women's beards, bears' tendons, and birds' saliva. Only by sacrificing one of Tyr's hands, the god of war, were they able to capture him. Yet during Ragnarok, he still broke free of his chains and killed Odin, king of the gods.

Although Germany was a member of the European Union and a Christian country, its people were mainly Germanic peoples and the German people.

Germanic peoples were scattered across Europe, while the German people were mainly concentrated in Germany and Austria. In the eyes of the Romans, they, like the Celts and Slavs, were "half-civilized peoples," one of Europe's three great barbarian peoples.

There was a famous Chinese saying: "Use bronze as a mirror, and one may straighten one's attire; use history as a mirror, and one may know the rise and fall of states; use people as a mirror, and one may understand one's gains and losses."

When the Romans called the Germanic peoples barbaric, they did not realize that they too were barbarians in the eyes of the greeks. Roman mythology had almost copied Greek mythology wholesale, merely changing the gods' names and making slight alterations; the genealogy of the gods