It is also revealed that Karen accidentally hurt Espen repeatedly, causing her husband to file in for a divorce and full custody of Espen, but Karen warped the truth to keep her child, causing the blame for abuse to fall on her husband. Now that he knows about the world Karen and Espen came from, he wishes to eat that one too. However his actions were discovered by Fenris, who demanded more children more often or he would wake up and eat the rest of the world. The islander called "Old Erik", who reluctantly took the role to take the children to the giant maws of Fenris, learns that there is a way to travel across worlds and entered into our world.
In the end, the island is empty of children due to its monstrous dangers, as well as diseases and starvation, thus pushing the people to insanity and trauma after the aftermath of The War. Vidar and Fenris instead make a pact: Leave Hodimir's holt, the last remaining place, alone and they will do anything.įenris agrees on the condition that he gets a child sacrificed to him an every odd number of years. However, Vidar was too injured to deliver the killing blow. The great warrior Vidar was supposed to kill and destroy the World Eater known as Fenris, thus stopping their world being destroyed. She sees old ruined villages where the people have mostly vanished or dead and the very few humans she meets have either been driven insane by grief and trauma, or commit suicide in front of her.Įventually it is revealed that Karen has entered a forgotten time that had stopped after "The Great War" or Ragnarök. Karen is confronted and hunted by various dangerous creatures and monsters such as trolls, Hulder, and mythological talking wolves from Norse mythology and Norwegian folk tales. She swims after his old boat to a mysterious island where she sees that, oddly, the moon has been shattered. Karen runs after and discovers that a mysterious old man who calls himself Old Erik, an old Norwegian name for the devil, has kidnapped Espen.
Somewhat estranged from each other, Karen does not actively engage with Espen's various activities, and rather works on her own projects and take naps in the majority of the day because she is working late.ĭespite Karen's warnings, Espen walks to an old rickety pier and suddenly disappears. In the western shore of Norway, a widowed woman named Karen lives in a cabin in the woods with her son Espen.
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