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Móði

A son of Thor, named only alongside his brother Magni: the two survive Ragnarök and inherit their father's hammer Mjöllnir.

Móði is a son of Thor, and the sources never mention him except together with his brother Magni. Snorri's kennings call Thor "Father of Magni and Módi and Thrúdr" Skáldskaparmál 4, and in Hymiskviða Thor is "the father of Mothi" as he heaves the giant's kettle onto his head Hymiskviða 35.

His one role lies in the future. When the giant Vafþrúðnir tells Odin who will rule after Ragnarök, he names Víðarr and Váli, and adds: "Mothi and Magni shall Mjollnir have when Vingnir falls in fight" Vafþrúðnismál 51. Snorri repeats the prophecy: Thor's sons will come to the renewed world and bring Mjöllnir with them Gylfaginning 53.

The Eddas do not name his mother. Magni's mother was the giantess Járnsaxa Skáldskaparmál 17, but nothing says Móði shared her. His name means "wrath" or "courage", and with Magni, "might", the pair can be read as the qualities of Thor that outlast him. No story about Móði himself survives.

In the sources

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Mothi and Magni shall Mjollnir have When Vingnir falls in fight.
Vafþrúðnismál 51 Vafþrúðnir foretells that Thor's sons will inherit the hammer.
And then the sons of Thor, Módi and Magni, shall come there, and they shall have Mjöllnir there.
Gylfaginning 53 Snorri places them among the gods of the renewed world.

Myths with Móði

Odin's contest of wisdom with Vafþrúðnir Against Frigg's advice, Odin goes in disguise to the wisest of the giants and stakes his head on a contest of questions about the creation, the gods and the end of the world. He wins with a question only he can answer. The world reborn After Ragnarök a green earth rises from the sea. Surviving gods meet on Iðavöllr, Baldr returns from Hel, two humans come out of hiding, and a new sun rides the sky. The sources do not agree on who survives.

Related

Thor Þórr The thunder god, strongest of the Æsir: son of Odin and Earth, husband of Sif, and with his hammer Mjöllnir the gods' defender against the giants, until he dies killing the World Serpent. Magni Thor's son by the giantess Járnsaxa. At three nights old he lifted the dead giant Hrungnir's leg off his father; after Ragnarök he and his brother Móði inherit Mjöllnir. Þrúðr Daughter of Thor and Sif, known only from kennings. Poets called the giant Hrungnir 'Þrúðr's thief', hinting at a lost story of her abduction. Mjölnir Mjöllnir Thor's short-handled hammer, forged by the dwarf brothers Brokkr and Sindri: it never misses, always returns to his hand, kills giants, and hallows brides, pyres and the dead goats it brings back to life. Ragnarök The foretold end of the gods' world: wolves swallow sun and moon, Loki and the monsters break loose, the gods fall in battle, Surtr burns the earth, and a new world rises. Víðarr The silent son of Odin and the giantess Gríðr, nearly as strong as Thor. At Ragnarök he avenges his father by tearing apart the wolf Fenrir, and he survives into the new world. Váli Odin's son by Rindr, born to avenge Baldr: at one night old, unwashed and uncombed, he killed Baldr's slayer Höðr. He survives Ragnarök.