I live in Kungälv, north of Gothenburg in Sweden. The name of the town was Kongahälla (or Kungahälla, Konungahälla, Kongehelle) a thousand years ago and is mentioned several times by Snorri in his tales of Sigurd Jorsalafare and other Norwegian kings, up to the 13th century. The community centre here, containing the library, an assembly hall and a large high school is named "Mimers hus (Mimir's House)"!
„That nobody wants to watch“ would like to say I always love these videos, and often like to just go back through them and listen to them whilst I cook or get ready for work of a morning! I really appreciate the channel and the work you do here, thank you!
Regarding Mímir probably being one of the jotnar rather than one of the æsir/vanir: In addition to his well lying by the root stretching from the Jotunheimar, it seems there's a morphological name similarity of sorts. Confer: Ymir Skrymir Hymir Gymir (only known as father of Gerd) And indeed Þrymr himself.
Great channel 🎉🎉. I live in Israel and I have Norwegian relatives. Since my spiritual awakening I became friends with crows. I’ve heard they are special for Odin. Thank you for your works.
I am Danish - married to a foreign woman, who was born and raised catholic. Her parents are also devout. Me - I am more in the camp of the old Gods. Anyway: They are visiting us one day and our oldest son, who is in second grade, has some problems with his homework. So he gets up, crosses his arms, and closes his eyes. After some time he sits down again and returns to the homework. Granddad then asks him: "What did you just do". Son: "Oh - I asked Odin for help in understanding this assignment". The look on the faces of the Granddads, when they heard the name of King of Gods and the God of kings was, well, fun.
Mimir, original member of the Talking Heads. Wish old Mimir was still around. We need more wisdom and fewer wise guys. Thanks, Dr. Crawford. Always enjoy your videos.
As an atheist, I still value and even love these myths and I find your work invaluable. Both in making these things accessible to a general audience but also providing a clear line of what is from the historical record and what is a modern reconstruction or retelling. Anyway, keep up the good work.
Without anyway to prove this theory, I still would expect that if I could sit down and chat face to face with a person from the times these poems were created, that they would agree that the idea of a head full of wisdom in well could be a true and real thing.
How dare Jackson Crawford present to us the Old Norse texts as they are without offering unsubstantiated opinions and personal gnosis! How prejudiced of him to give you nothing but the facts! You sound like a buffoon. Nothing of what you said carries any weight. Yes, there is always prejudice on the part of the interpreter, but Jackson is doing his best to be objective and impartial in providing us good knowledge within his expertise.
Truly grateful for your content. It really gives a sense of connection between time and cultures in a way that I've really only experienced via music or travel. Please keep it up!
Interesting that about Mímir. In Faroese, the masculine -ir words (-ija stem I think) competely merge with the weak nouns, so hirðir > hirði, læknir > lækni etc. (so læknir - lækni - lækni - læknis > lækni - lækna - lækna - lækna), so it is interesting to see that this change seems to have happened or started to happen that early.
For poetic reasons, my head cannon for the Gjallarhorn is that it came from the end of Auðumla's horn. Because having the horn of the first cow (Auðumla) that freed the first god (Ymir) sound out the Twilight of Gods is a nice circle.
I think you’re thinking too materialistic about this. The myths, in my experience, are riddles and metaphors. If they say, from someones eye poors the golden mead and it’s lying in a spring. Then I think that’s a riddle and the answer is pretty obvious.
Dr. Crawford, I presume you know this, but if not: all your videos get a transcript automatically applied by RU-vid. They're not perfect but if you need to search old videos you could possibily use them and a ctrl-f to save you some work.
Maybe it's confusing because they were both, human beings (or looking and living like humans) and were gods so it seems like a contradiction but it's just two different aspects to the story. I think the Aztecs had a war god called Votan but he was described as a physical man. Many cultures had descriptions of a god who seemed like Odin.
Could Heimdall be Mimirs son and we've just lost that story, and that's why they both use the Gjallarhorn? Heimdalls powers of sight and hearing would match with being the son of the wisest being
Ino very little of Snorri only rhat he was a monk but have you considered that he has written the stories as ha has been told by different people and that his inconsistencies ate a product of this and not his academic ability?
He was NOT a monk. No one in a christian occupation would have written such works. In fact, I bet we HAD such works on the continent, but were destroyed by zealous priests and bishops.
I don't think mimir was Odin's enemy. I thought they traded people after the vanir/aesir as a peace keeping method. Mimir went with the vanir. Freyr and freya were vanir and went to live with the aesir. And i think the vanir dud not like what mimir had to say 😬💀
Why not develop and offer a simpler course in Mythology. I'm sure that you could get it finished in a short time. Use your own books as reference. Doesn't have to be live: make a video series and put it on one of the teaching platforms.
This whole channel is that. I think the reason he’s doing a language course is because learning language often requires a more hands on approach, just as with learning maths.
