Lyngbakr Island

Lyngbakr Island was an unusual island in Svartalfheim, seen from a distance as a scattering of odd rocky outcroppings, wreckage, and a great geyser rising from the water. It held the secret of a Lyngbakr, a vast sea creature that Mimir had chained there long ago, and to which he returned with Kratos and Atreus seeking to undo the wrong he had done.

The chaining of the Lyngbakr#

In his youth, Mimir captured and chained a Lyngbakr in Svartalfheim so that he might harvest its fat for lantern oil. He thought it an imaginative and eye-catching way to earn the favor of Odin, and the scheme worked. The bound creature remained at the island, an assortment of rocky outcroppings and wreckage in the Bay of Bounty marked by a great geyser, for centuries afterward.

The return and the freeing#

When Mimir returned to Svartalfheim with Kratos and Atreus, he asked whether they might find a way to free the creature he had imprisoned so long ago. He had hoped it would have escaped by then, but it had not. Kratos was particularly horrified by the creature's bondage, for he himself knew what it was to be enslaved and oppressed. The three did their best to free the Lyngbakr, and Mimir expressed regret for what he had done, having since learned what it was to be imprisoned in one place. He was disgusted that the Aesir had not even troubled to end the creature's misery once it had served its purpose. Kratos offered to kill it, but Mimir refused, unwilling to let it die when it could be saved. Yet even freed from its chains and ropes, the creature would not leave its pen. When Kratos tried to encourage it onward, he observed that it had become accustomed to its chains.