American Reacts Exploring Norse Mythology: Thor, God of Thunder 

The swastika is even way older than Hinduism There's drawings of it on cave walls And is pretty much present in all indo European cultures

Current name for weekdays in Norwegian is: Mandag/Måndag -"Moons day" Tirsdag/Tysdag - "Tyrs day". The god of war in northern mythology. Onsdag - "Odins day" Torsdag - "Thors day" Fredag - "Friggs day" (A note: Often the goddess "Freya/Frøya" is confused with Frigg. Frigg is. Frigg is associated with motherhood. Freya/Frøya is the godess of love. However there is scholary debate if Freya and Frigg once was the same goddess. Lørdag/Laurdag - "Bathing day" (Laugar - wash/bathe) Søndag/Sundag - "Suns day"

Ragnarok is the last war, where most of the gods die, Thor, Loki and Odin is some of them. Only a some gods survive.

I'm a norse pagen this religion is alive and well

That type of horn are specific to a few breeds of goat.

I recommend Overly Sarcastic Productions for history and religion. Miscellaneous Myths: Utgard-Loki is a good and Beowulf is a favorite.

Ragnarok. "The twilight of the gods" Etymology of the word is: Ragna - reign. Rulers. Those who rule (I believe this is where the English "reign" stems from) Rok/Røk/Røkr - to grow dark. Twilight. Fun fact - modern Norwegian "røk" means "smoke". I am not sure but I bet this stems from the same word (smoke will make things "go dark"). The event per mythology is how the world as we know it ends. According to the sagas a new world will emerge - with two surviving humans repopulating the new earth. A few gods also survive.

The Gods in the Nordic mythology are a mess; But the oldest three Gods was brothers; It was Oden, Vile and Ve, and they lived in the top of a big tree, Yggdrasil. Vile and Ve made each a figure from the bark of Yggdrasil and Oden blow life into them. Those two become the first human being and was called Ask and Embla. After that Vile and Ve disappeared, and Oden become alone. Oden find his wife among the giants, Frigg, and they got several children that become gods. Oldest and physical strongest was Tor, then Balder, Brage, Tyr, Höder, Vidar, and Saga. But his wife, Frigg, had a brother Njord that has two children, Frej and Freja. Ragnarök was the end of Yggdrasil and the end of that world, from the only two people survive Liv and Lust. You can say that it was end of part one with the creation, and start the next chapter of the world. There are a lot of interesting colourful stories in the Nordic mythology, but a lot of the is written down much later and some invented in the 19:th century. Unfortunately, the stories contain a huge number of names for everything and everyone that are difficult to remember. This was because the stories were intended to be passed on orally. Regarding week names it is one story that Oden find that the day should have names, it become (Swedish in brackets), the week was 4 days. Tyrsd (Tisdag) - for his son Tyr Odensd (Onsdag) - for himself Tord (Torsdag) - for his son Tor, Frejad (Fredag) - for his cousin that was on visit. Another story add the rest when the human (Liv and Lust) find the name of those for day and added one for the sun (Söndag) and one for the moon (Måndag), And they put those in front of the 4 named by Oden. Then the find that the need one more day, lögaredagen (löga is an old Swedish word for washing) and that become the last day Lördag.

Odin is the guy at the top, he's the King of the Gods and Thor's dad as well as Loki's adopted dad.

Sunday = the suns day, carried on a 4 wheeled chariot, there's one on display in Sweden, Monday = the moon's day, chased buy wolves I think, or was it the serpant? , Teiusday=Tuesday, son of Woden/Odin and Freia, Wednesday =Widens day, God's day, Thursday =Thors day, Friday = Frieas day, wife of Woden, the Greeks hoyed, (threw), Saturn in, Wednesday =Wodens day, (correction). I think it's something like that mate, beware Loki, he's a rascal that one.Carry on up the Khyber.

Odin is on the top when it comes to the Main gods In the Asatro religion. He is the wisest

the swastika goes the other way around, and wednesday is named after his father and friday his mother

Snakes are very symbolic and humans have been afraid of them so long that we have a instinct in avoiding snake like shapes.

Its amazing how much space there is for Women in norse mythology. Women are eveywhere and have real power. A bunch of old ladies decide the fate of Gods and men. Dont get me wrong the culture is Patriarcal it just leaves much more space for women to be complicated and weird.

Worship your Gods, But never trust them.

Mythology and history my two favourite subjects. I think the Greek gods are more interesting. Probably best not to watch Marvel. Odin is the tip top, he's Thors dad.

I recommend see you in history/mythology video on ragnarok

Pls Pls react to overly sarcastics production's video on myth. Red's video on myth are excellent with poetic edda , and greek myth etc

The Norse God Thor rode out to war upon his favourite filly, "I'M THOR!" He cried, the horse replied, "You forgot your thaddle, thilly!"

Our gods are capricious. We like them that way.

I like you more with every video: I am also an intorvert, I never watched GoT, I don't like (modern) superhero stuff, I am interested in history and myth, ... 👍 About the snake stuff: I always wonder why in so many cultures dragons play a big role...

Great Video but when will you continue the Turkish Century ?? I think Kraut did a very good job

Never got into Marvel either, especially these days!

Odin is at the top

Od😊in is the father of all Odin is the father 😊of Thor

Ragnarok is told from a Christian perspective. The world dies type of thing. But Ragnarok is just the end of the day. Loki is not actually a Nordic deity. More Christian than Nordic. But when told of Ragnarok, Tyr and Loki team up to fight Ragnarok. Tyr is the god of war, Loki is mischief and subterfuge. They fight the darkness until they die and bring on a new day. Basically it is an allegory of feasting, enjoyment and fighting through the night until the sun comes up. It has nothing really to do with death but destruction of the old and into the new (Hence Thor [pronounced Tor as the H is silent in Icelandic telling of the stories] gives his hammer to the younger children to carry on). Odin is pronounced Wodin/Wodun and Freya as Frigga. Loki is Lo'Ki. There is such a mismatch with Viking style of speech as Icelandic language is more Viking than what some westerners will pronounce it as. Maybe looking at the channel Grimfrost will give you an idea of what Yule is like (pronounced Jul/Jool) and other Viking items and history.

i'd like to see your reaction to the mythology guy. he has funny sketches about various mythologies and talks about interesting facts about mythologies so here's his channel for you to choose from ru-vid.comvideos

Are you a DC Comics fan?

Thor has always been my favorite, I was born on a Thursday ;-) That and the comic books of the 60s. The Marvel version is a "thor" loser ;-((