In chapter 50 of
Gylfaginning, to punish Loki for his crimes, the
Æsir turn his son Váli into a wolf and he dismembers his brother, "Nari or Narfi", whose
entrails are then used to bind their father. The prose colophon to "Lokasenna" has a summary of the same story, probably derived from Snorri; In this version, there is no mention of a brother named Váli, Nari is the brother who is killed, Narfi transforms into a wolf, and the connection is not explained. The name Narfi has often been changed to Váli to better conform to the
Prose Edda account; for example in
Guðni Jónsson's 1954 edition and in
Henry Adams Bellows' 1923 English translation. Snorri also names "Nari or Narfi" as the son of Loki and his wife
Sigyn earlier in
Gylfaginning, and lists "father of Nari" as a
heiti for Loki in the
Skáldskaparmál section of his work. In addition, Narfi is mentioned in the much earlier "
Ynglingatal" of
Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, where
Hel is referred to by the
kenning jóðís ulfs ok Narfa ("sister of the wolf [i.e.
Fenrir] and Narfi"), and in the "
Haustlöng", which may be by the same skald. Narfi also occurs as a personal name. ==Interpretations==