I found this story fascinating and the narration quite entertaining. This is way better than the christian creation myth. I'm looking forward to the next installment.
Like how they always shove Jewish, Greek, Egyptian, and Roman cultures down our throats but don't talk much about many of our ancestors especially Sumerian texts which they have but don't share and my ancestral origins, the Norse.
is it just me or do the ancient pagan creation stories sound better and more entertaining then that of the Abarhamic religions. who here agrees with me on this? I am glad to hear the story of how my ancestors thought the universe was created. so entertaining.
I know, right? I think the perfect story for a big budget movie would be "Erik menneskesøn" (Erik, Son of Man) by Lars-Henrik Olsen. A quadrilogy about a boy from middle earth being abducted by Thor to help the gods bring back Ydun and her apples of life from "udgårdsloke". And the quadrilogy ends in Ragnarok. Extremely nice read! :D
I was amazed to find that in one of the translations of this story the dwarves were named. Many of those names were used by J.R.R. Tolkien. I knew he was an Anglo-Saxon scholar, but not that he had studied Norse stories as well. I saw Fili and Kili, for example.
Indeed! Still wish they had added sea-based combat though... Gather a crew, become a Jarl, get a viking-boat, wage war against the imperial city (closest to England I could think of...considering the chapels and the Knights of the Nine armor...), fight battles against other viking-boats at sea with an ax in one hand and a great shield in the other. Would have been very cool.
Damn. If you wouldve caught me back when i first watched these i couldve gotten you an A. See, I love vikings, so i watch this in my free time. I'll watch it, and then message you an explanation, if you want. But i'll need some time, mind you.
Awesome, I just got an Xbox a few months ago. I had been playing it on PS3, but as you probably know Dawnguard & Hearthfire didnt come out for it, which is one of the reasons I bought a 360, lol.
Man imagines such amazing perceptions of his existence that he can never fully understand until he is called back to the spirit world. Keep in mind the absolute truth of life. Water is life. No water No nothing.
I suggest you read the Poetic and Prose Eddas for a better understanding. Midgard and Jötunheimr are separate places. They could be, but Asatruars tend to interpret allegorically.
7 months ago I posted that. In that time frame, I have actually found great reason in converting into Norse Paganism. So, I have, or rather im in the process of doing so. Its not out of the blue, most of my blood is germanic.
@CrolanPW Grendel of the Beowulf story didn't like loud music. Mind you thats is from a more anglo-saxon background, and i'm not sure Grendel was arguably a giant at all.
@pugcasso I think I heard of there being some great flood of the Euphrates and the Tigris in Babylonia. That would , for the people at the time, almost seem like the entire world and would be the source of the myth.
+Flaredhail likely because Tolkien got all his inspirations from norse mythology and outright stole some of his characters directly friom the Edda like Gimli and Gandalf
Possibly Slavic Pagan mercenaries, not Rus. But in the Dark Ages there was a crusade going on against certain territories. It could be that she was on the 'wrong' side alas.
yeah i know about the blood sacrificing at Uppsulla.(i know i am spelling that temple name wrong.) it was a sacrifice of 9 of everything from 9 humans to 9 goats, but i am sure the humans were willing sacrifices. what you think?
Yes that's somewhat likely, but also it may of been to make the ordeal easier on her as well. Drugging was probably the 'humane' factor coming into play as well. Although I don't agree with the way they went about it etc etc. Slave girls from Bulgar and Khazar territories etc were fairly commonplace back at that time.
Yeah I will :3 But the last Ice age finished around 10,000 years ago I'm pretty sure, thats what I was referring to. Actually, let me check that... Okay apparantly we are still technically in an ice age, and have been for 2.1 million years, but it is widely accepted that we have currently been in an interglacial period for just over 11,000 years, so I was very close XD I shall now research indo europeans upon your advice.
Well these myths are way more interesting than greek ones. I don't believe them but you know Avengers... Loki/Tom Hiddleston :D And no offense to those who believe this but it's just bit too ehhh you know what I mean like pritiahnuté za vlasy. But in Slovakia we too had these kind of myths like about Parem and such. It's interesting to see what they thought the world was like before them. Anyway .... interesting.
Odin is a combination of Latin Ode meaning Poetry and In meaning One as "an" is. Hence Odin associated with Poetry. It was to remove one's attention from Godan meaning literally Good One. The same pun is in Wod that is pronounced Wood and Wodan is a pun meaning Wooden in reference to wood carved figurines. Van in Vanir is from Vae/Vah, Wae/Vae sources beand Being as in Waes Hal, Be Well/Whole, etc. and of the words Vaetirr, Vates, Fate, and Fae turned into Fay and tied to the word Arg/Ary which is where we Eerie meaning timid and cowardly comes from to make the later word as Fairy as a timid or cowardly spirit comes from, when the term originally simply meant Beings in general. That just the start of actual research. The Eddas were made to smear cultures, not support them. Loki is from the word Lok source of the words Luck, Look and Lock. and means more or less Lucky, but the latin sources chose to tie Lok to Latin Lux and thus Luc and painted the concept Loki must be Lucifer and that is what is worked into the Eddas. Also the Eddas say in one spot Thor is the Son of Odin, but is also said to be the Grand Ancestor of Odin and that he is from the city of Troy. That's my point on people not doing real research an why I laugh at so called Asatruar and Odinists that play into the Christian Devil fears denying Loki is an Aspet of Godan originally linked to Spring and the May Pole as the folkloric Green Man/Puck, etc.Wuldor meaning Old Thor being a form of Godan associated with Yuletide and the Hunt/Harvest season in August as the real Summer's End being called Grimnir which is where we get the Grim Reaper concepts later. So yeah I don't draw from the Eddas I draw from actual etymology and over 20 years studying it. They also ignore the Sagas that make clear the names for the actual priests and priestess were Warlocks and Witches from Vardlok and Vecha but instead use terms for clan and tribal leaders (kings and queens) who were called Godar and Godjar (dialectic variations permitted), but play the Wicca crap of avoiding admitting these facts that are self evident yet claim they prefer being called heathens which is more or less saying they want to be called shrubs. and those that "claim pagan" are saying they want to be called peasants. .
The Arch Warlock they are not "based off". just like everything else in human culture, bits and pieces are influenced by different cultures depending on interaction, background, and historical development. mythologies (religions) might influence each other, but that dosent necessarily mean they are directly based off each other
The Arch Warlock your pathetic way of phrasing yourself makes it hard for me to take you seriously or understand your "point". "basing off the Eddas is a fucktard move", go back to 3rd grade where you belong.
That's the way it was written, I think - the Gods didn't take his eyebrows and turned them into cliffs, his eyebrows _were_ cliffs. His hair _were_ trees. His blood _was_ water.
lol....there are just too many gods going back and forth; and I really suck at remembering things like this. so I just write them down. But um, what is this giant they talk about; and how do you spell it.
I watched it, but I am still lost. I just really am a bit lost. It's explaning about how the universe is created from gods fighting giants and then this god that and another god that...Im a bit lost here. And I wanna like know the names of the gods.
I take it that we live in Midgard, since we are men? Yet earth housed Jotenheim and Midgard? Does anyone know where the giants went? :S Or did Midgard and Jotunheim get seperated at a later date to create two distinct worlds, which could now be light years apart?
Does somebody know where the realm or world of Svartalfaheimr stands for. I read that it was home of the Dwarfs, but others said it was home of the Dark Elves. I even read that there was no particular world or realm for the Dvergar (Dwarfs). And this confuses me, so I was wondering if anyone could explain it me?
previous commentary/annotation is correct. From the Old Norse spelled Svartalfheimr & pronounced "SVART-alf-hame"...Heimr means homeland & Svartalf - dark Elves.The 7th of 9 worlds in the cosmology of Asgard. Best regards,Drake B.
Welk I just wanna clarify that I do think that norse mythology is a possible theory, i just think their theory for the creation of the universe is a bit out there
Det er ikke min feil at jeg har blitt oppdratt på denne måten! ;) Men seriøst, du kan umulig være så dum at du tror på det jeg skrev... Skrev det bare fordi jeg synes det er morsomt å tulle med Amerikanerne. Du burde tåle en spøk når du sitter på Internett... (Og ja, lær deg å skrive før du kommenterer)
All i can tell you off the top of my head is a brief explanation of Loki. Loki is the god of mischief and shit. Hes a dick, always tricking people, lying. Very charismatic. I really dont remember all of this lol
