Heroes in History: Jormungandr 

My guess is the character is based off the Góði/gothi a nordic priest who hallowed a circle during blōt with a ritual hammer

Jormungandr is actually from Jotunheim being kin of Loki (half jotun half god)

So what you're saying is They're Giving praise to jormangender and the hero is the prest

There isn't one. Jorm wanted to rip off one of the Free Folk clans from Game of Thrones.

I thought it was because Ubisoft has a foot fetish.

@@DexXael There'd be more barefoot characters by that standard.

They do have shoes in one of there torso’s

easy. they're dirty snake worshipping hippies.

That he does....that he does.

@@RavenKnightYT or she 😳

@@MWurz-tm2ww uh oh this getting into odd territory

@@MWurz-tm2ww both

The Powersnake, bane of Thor, jormungandr...such metal much power

German version is very different from Nordic version

The male jormungundr looks cooler though

@@microwave4928 not a fan of his beards or his god awful voice, Hulda literally sounds more manly than him

Yes, but I was trying to tie in another piece of history. XD

@@emperorpalpatine373 I mean if you’re not a fan of beards you won’t like the male Viking’s very much I still stand by highlander being the coolest both sounding and looking

@@emperorpalpatine373 what about the new skyrim helmet he got with that ginger beard?

Like a seer or góði

Found no sources of your claims

Like a seer or göði

I’d start with this: www.medievalchronicles.com/medieval-weapons/medieval-warhammer/

Ps the Jormagandr cult werent bent on ending the world. They were a cult that was preparing for the end of the world. That's very different

He was know as God for a few thing. God of fertility, thunder. But If I remember correctly, he is also know for Family because his family ment a lot to him. He was a devoted husband to his wife, Sif. And a devoted father to his children: Magni, Modi, and Thurd. He also had a stepson named Ullr.

Just cause.

Well yes, in the For Honor lore, that is the case. But I mean historically, the hammer symbolizes something different.

BOI!!

That is one theory. The other theories are: A.) The norse were trying to adopt a symbol that melded Christian symbols into their own so that it still felt familiar B.) It was made as a counter to the Christian symbol to remind the Norse of their origins. C.) It was designed by Christians to assure the Norse that they weren't there to try and take their culture but merely to build on it.

@@RavenKnightYT I feel like most of of the norse however at that time never really converted it was either a front for survival or political things. From what I read up and have heard from other Scandinavians as well is that for the most part at that time most of them didn’t really convert.

@@thewidowskiss7675 at that time no. The majority did not convert until the 11th century. However, they had contact with Christians at the time, and that would be when the Norse and Christian cultures would begin to collide at least.

Mythology means “a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.” You can have Jewish, Christian, and Muslim myths just as well as you can have Norse myths, and as such mythologies within them. The difference is simply that there is more material, physical, and recorded validity to the standard accepted mainstream religions than most pagan religions.

How very interesting. This is all fascinating. Could you share the sources you used to learn this? I’d love to enrich my knowledge further, as this is a topic of great interest to me.

@@RavenKnightYT I can't remember the sources since I first heard this information at a semiar while studying archeology, but I believe this is the most common interpretation as of late since the cultural history going back thousands of years have become more and more popular. Less weight is given to the christian written stories written long after this was the belief system and more weight is given to the origins and cognate languages. So proto-indo-european culture and language where we see Perkwunos whos the earliest form of Thor, known for wielding an axe. This would be a stone axe. And we see how this carries over to the closest in proximity thunder gods of the indo-europeans, Perkunos of the baltic and Perun of the slavs whom both are connected with an axe aswell. It only then changes to an axe when we get alittle furtehr away from the origination point where the axe becomes a hammer with the norse and other germanics, though we do not know what Thunraz was said to wield, and some of the goths runestones might be depicting Thor with both. Then when we get very far away from the origination point we see that Thor loses the weapon completely, like with Taranis of the celts and Zeus of the greeks. Though the greeks are a bit special since Hercules also comes from that origin, but his thunder connection is given to Zeus whom is also supposed to be the Sky Father, Odins role, both of which come from the proto-indo-european Sky Father Dyēus. What Hercules does keep along side the other thunder gods is his strength, he's supposed to be the strongest, and he is connected to the club, there even is hercules club-pandants the same way there are Thors hammer pendants and Peruns axe pendants. So he doesn't have an axe and he doesn't have a hammer, but a club. But I wont ramble any longer. "Dan Davis Author" is a youtuber whom make quite detailed videos about this period if you want to find out more about this sort of stuff, I believe he posts sources for everything that isn't a discussion so thats a good place to find some written sources if you prefer to read about it. He made a video discussion about this very topic of Thors hammer and I agree with his suggestion that the idea of wearing the hammer pendant predates christian influence since we see miniature version of the old stone axes in graves, no more than 4 centimeters long and with a hole through them, it seems very much like a pendant people would wear even back then before christianity existed. Thinking about this actually makes me wish the For Honor devs had made the Jormungandr an early bronze age warrior with a stone hammer-like axe. The size of the jorm hammer isn't too far off of the historical hammer-axe of the corded ware peoples, whom are just vikings 2000 years before the viking age. Perhaps we just stumbled apon a way for the For Honor devs to justify the Jorm hammer. Survive the Jive is another historical youtuber who delves into the re-discovery of Europes old religions, I think some of his longer and newer documentaries are very good, for example the one about the indo-european sky father. Robert Drews is a very good historian to check out regarding these really old things if you want to read, though he isn't as focused on the religious since hes a straight up professional historian. I said I stop rambling but then doubled the length of the comment...

The Rus Vikings, which where the vikings Ahmad encountered were the proto-russians, and verangians, not quite the vikings we know today. Although, even these vikings he referred to their hygenie as "optimal."

@@RavenKnightYT Ohhh, my bad. Thanks for the insight! Really dig your content! Keep up the great work, good sir!

@@oscarm4095 no worries! And thank you.