Garm at the End

Snorri's telling of Ragnarok assigns him an opponent and then kills them both. Tyr fights Garm, the hound bound at a cave mouth, and the Prose Edda says each is the death of the other. The wolf whose binding cost him a hand is Odin's opponent in that battle, not his. The older poem Voluspa knows Garm well — its refrain has the hound howling — but does not name Tyr in the fight, which leaves the pairing as Snorri's arrangement or as something he inherited from a source now lost. It is a quiet end for a god whose name once meant god.