Hresvelg
Hræsvelgr
Other well-known Names: Hresvelg, Hraesvelgr, Hraesvelg, Räsvelg.
Classification: being weird, birdlike.
Habitat - the Far North.
Looks Hresvelg like a huge eagle. Although he was not a bird. In fact, Hresvelg - the mythical northern giant etun. By the force almost equal to any of the Scandinavian deities - aces. He wanted to look noble bird, so he accepted.
Hresvelg sits on the far north, near the edge of heaven. And when he shakes its mighty wings across the land rises north wind.
And though the name translates as Hresvelg "devourer of corpses, do not hold this evil giant eagle on the people. Rather, it simply does not notice. And the fact that its winds are sometimes fatally so ferocious, so Well of that. Because the north wind - a same cleaner earth from filth and contagion, as well as fire.
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