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Garmr
Sign in to savethumb|right|"Hel" (1889) by Johannes Gehrts. In Norse mythology, Garmr or Garm (Old Norse: ) is a wolf or dog associated with both Hel and Ragnarök, and described as a blood-stained guardian of Hel's gate.
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thumb|right|"Hel" (1889) by Johannes Gehrts. In Norse mythology, Garmr or Garm (Old Norse: ) is a wolf or dog associated with both Hel and Ragnarök, and described as a blood-stained guardian of Hel's gate.
==Name== The etymology of the name Garmr remains uncertain. Bruce Lincoln brings together Garmr and the Greek mythological dog Cerberus, relating both names to a Proto-Indo-European root *ger- "to growl" (perhaps with the suffixes -*m/*b and -*r). However, Daniel Ogden notes that this analysis actually requires Cerberus and Garmr to be derived from two different Indo-European roots (*ger- and *gher- respectively), and in this opinion does not establish a relationship between the two names.