Editing Geri and Freki (section)

{{short description|Two wolves in Norse mythology}}
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[[File:Oden's animals (cropped).jpg|thumb|Modern ambiguous ink painting of Odin with his two ravens [[Huginn and Muninn]], as well as his two wolves Geri and Freki.]]

In [[Norse mythology]], '''Geri''' and '''Freki''' are two [[Eurasian wolf|wolves]] which are said to accompany the god [[Odin]]. They are attested in the ''[[Poetic Edda]]'', a collection of epic poetry compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, in the ''[[Prose Edda]]'', written in the 13th century by [[Snorri Sturluson]], and in the poetry of [[skald]]s. The pair has been compared to similar figures found in [[Greek mythology|Greek]], [[Roman mythology|Roman]] and [[Sharvara and Shyama|Vedic mythology]], and may also be connected to beliefs surrounding the [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] "wolf-warrior bands", the [[Úlfhéðnar]].