Móði and Magni is a deity in Norse folklore, from Scandinavia. Móði and Magni are the sons of the god Thor in Old Norse sources, named respectively 'Wrath' and 'Strength'. Magni is attested performing a feat of infant strength in Skáldskaparmál; both are listed among the survivors of Ragnarök in the Poetic Edda.
In Old Norse sources Móði and Magni are presented as sons of the god Thor. Skáldskaparmál names Magni explicitly as Thor's son by the jötunn Járnsaxa; Móði is named as Thor's son in the corpus but his mother is not specified in the primary texts cited. Both are treated in later narrative contexts as part of Thor's extended kin among the Æsir and are listed as survivors following the cataclysm of Ragnarök in the Poetic Edda (Vafþrúðnismál).
Primary texts supply no sustained physical descriptions or iconography for either figure. The only age detail recorded in the provided material is that Magni is 'three nights old' during the Hrungnir episode in Skáldskaparmál; otherwise descriptions are limited to narrative action rather than bodily traits.
Magni: In Skáldskaparmál (the Hrungnir episode) the infant Magni removes Hrungnir's foot that had fallen on Thor, an act presented as exceptional strength: 'he was then three nights old; he cast the foot of Hrungnir off Thor...' He speaks boldly afterward and is rewarded by Thor with the horse Gold-Mane (and Odin objects to Thor giving the horse to the son of a giantess). Móði: beyond his naming among the survivors of Ragnarök in Vafþrúðnismál and the semantic sense of his name ('Wrath'), the provided sources record no specific deeds or powers for Móði. Scholarly commentary (e.g., Rudolf Simek) treats the brothers together with Þrúðr as personifications of Thor's attributes rather than as sources do that as an explicit in‑text claim.
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- [1]Skáldskaparmál (Prose Edda) — Hrungnir episode. Skáldskaparmál, passage describing Thor's fight with Hrungnir and Magni's removal of Hrungnir's foot (Skáldskaparmál, 17).literary
- [2]Vafþrúðnismál (Poetic Edda). Vafþrúðnismál — listing of survivors of Ragnarök including Móði and Magni.literary
- [3]Rudolf Simek — secondary commentary. Simek's commentary grouping Móði and Magni with Þrúðr as embodiments of Thor's features (secondary scholarly summary as cited).academic
- [4]John Lindow — comparative note. Lindow's parallel between Magni and Váli regarding giantess mothers and early feats of strength (secondary scholarly summary as cited).academic
- [5]Wikipedia: Móði and Magni. Overview article summarizing primary and secondary sources on Móði and Magni (used in supplied research notes).wiki