The Norse Creation Myth (Live in Colorado) 

"All women go to Hel" - Old Norse specialist Dr. Jackson Crawford, Jan. 26 2024 1:03:21

So happy for those 181 students, thank you Dr. Crawford. I got goosebumps when you were introduced.

I had nine mothers once But it was just that one time

I enjoyed this meeting. Dr. Crawford is a true scholar of Old Norse, the Eddas and the sagas of the Icelanders. Greetings from Iceland - Einar

What is Loki's favorite music genre? Ragnar Rock.

Thank you Dr Crawford, Greetings from Wales!

Thanks Dr Crawford. I always learn something new each time I listen to you. I’m curious about the Jotun discussion. Clearly there are some Jotun that are giants. Ymir’s head is the dome of the heavens. Thor and Loki camp the night inside the glove of Utgard-Loki. And Skirmir’s cauldron is supermassive. Wouldn’t those all be examples of giants?

Very happy to be one of the 181! It's a banger good course I highly recommend.

Dang it!!! You were in town and i didnt know. I would have been there!

Dr Crawford's Great Courses series is awesome and available on audible!

Can’t wait for the next one!!

holy! 181 students

Mulțumim!

@jacksoncrawford When it comes to the name "Ymir" being related to the word "twin", he was created from the realms of Muspelheim and Niflheim, the twin primordial realms in Gylfaginning. Those realms existed pre-Ymir, who is the culmination of the twin realms. Just fruit for thought, nothing is confirmed. I'd love whatever input there is to be given.

Great job mr Jackson,....and greetings from Skandinavia Denmark 🇩🇰

Thanks!

My little language community, has this advantage, the eddas are so powerful when you understand and Even speak some of the language. Love from Norway.

i wish i'd known about that course a so i could get in

Thank you for sharing this! :)

Thank you, that was most enjoyable. I love the Germanic/Norse creation myth, for me it matches the modern scientific version surprisingly well. I have my issues with the Gods over killing Ýmir, though likely there is a fair amount of mythology that seems to be lost on the subject. In the Q and A's you mentioned that you weren't sure what happens to the gods, and possibly the various Heims too, I understood that considering the Jötnar come out of Ragnarok victorious, the world burns, either returns to fire and ice, the natural homes of the Jötnar, or that after a while it all starts again with a new Ginnungagap forming, new creatures being born.... Is it possible that female fighters go to Folkvangr instead if not welcome at Valhöl?

A truly enjoyable meeting. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I love that Edda means great-grandmother.

I wonder if the horse element of "Yggdrassil" is a distant echo of the Indo-European high regard for horses, which came down to the Upanishads in India as the universalization of the "Sacrificial Horse" in this beautiful passage in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:- "Om. The head of the sacrificial horse is the dawn, its eye the sun, its vital force the air, its open mouth the fire called Vaisvanara, and the body of the sacrificial horse is the year. Its back is heaven, its belly the sky, its hoof the earth, its sides the four quarters, its ribs the intermediate quarters, its members the seasons, its joints the months and fortnights, its feet the days and nights, its bones the stars and its flesh the clouds. Its half-digested food is the sand, its blood-vessels the rivers, its liver and spleen the mountains, its hairs the herbs and trees. Its forepart is the ascending sun, its hind part the descending sun, its yawning is lightning, its shaking the body is thundering, its making water is raining, and its neighing is voice."

Wow, about 180 students?! Good for you, Dr. Crawford! Right now I really don't have any time to spare for your course, but I seriously considered signing up. Hopefully I will have the opportunity at some other time!

Thank you for content my good ser

Loved the story of all the Thors. Where is it in the Eddas; or its source if not from there?

Mr. Drengr is far more charismatic then he gives himself credit for

love this

i feel like great courses plus has a pretty decent advertising presence on the web. a good few popular education adjacent youtubers advertise them

So... who's the most modest Cowboy Viking, Viggo Mortensen or Dr Jackson Crawford?

next career = standup comic

Nothing better than a nice low alcohol mead. Good and sweet like liquid honey

totally missed the chance to call Heimdallr the kids godfather....when you were trying to figure out Kings parenting situtation

Could you make a video on the peculiarities of norse Romances once they became more popular in Scandinavia as well?

Great to hear someone explain how Iætun weren't really that different from Æsir. I have a question though related to that. It's quite obvious why Sleipnir is basically a horse since its dad was a horse, but is there any explanation to why Loki had some rather monstrous children?

Lucky Crowd. Thanks for sharing Ol' Doc Norse®©™.

We simply have to treat Snorri the same as any historical source, and keep in mind that he has his own perspective on the subject he writes about. Same as Herodotus or Suetonius.

Will Smith and Chris Rock were friends. Will laughs at Chris' jokes until Will's wife looks at him. To be a drengr and save face and get his wife off his back Will has to smack Chris.

When are you coming over on the western slope?

Hail the Aesir and the Vanir!

This guy is a living proof vikings reached America.

In Swedish "Snorre" is also an old slang for the male member. So, yeah, a good old dignified name. ;P

Can you help Duolingo provide old Norse with Futhark writing system? Can we help you in some way to make it happen?

Hey Dr. Crawford, what book are you reading out of?

I have a question! (Its possible I am misinformed and thats why I came to the language expert) this video is about the creation myth...my question is about the apocalypse myth...or, the war of the gods...It seems as though Futhark and Middle English had influence on each other between the 8th and 11th centuries..? I once heard that Sturluson converted to Christianity. Some 500 years before the bible was printed in any western European language. In the biblical books of Job and Isaiah, there is mention of a great sea serpent called the Leviathan. It says that the Christian God will send his son to slay the serpent in the Christian apocalypse... When Sturluson complied the Prose Edda, was it possible that the tale of Thor, son of the all father, slaying Jormungander (a draw) was somewhat influenced by Sturluson's conversion to the Christian faith? He was converted by monks/missionaries through verbal communication...there was no printed bible in his language yet...I wonder if by the year 1611,(when the KJV was first printed in English) the languages and tales from both cultures had influenced each other? In Nordic paganism, Odin is the All Father; his son Thor, is the defender of man. And it was prophesied that Thor would slay the Great World Serpent Jormungander in the war of the gods, Ragnarok. In the bible, in Job, Isaiah and Revelation, it says that God the father will send his son Jesus to be the savior of man. And he will slay a great serpent called the Leviathan at the end of the world. Super similar

Nine = nine months of pregnancy?

Is it too late to join the zoom class?

Re the Jötnar and the AEsir being akin to Titans and God in Greek mythology there’s no size difference between Titans and Gods either (though Greek Giants are indeed big). I guess calling Jötnar Titans would have been too obvious.

please take voice lessons, your voice gets really quiet when you speak in old norse and that's the best part of the story

'All women go to hel'. Sure, and what about women in Old Norse mythology?

While "giants" is a misnomer, I feel "anti-gods" is, too, since they are not always opposed, and they are basically the same. I honestly feel the word "gods" gives an incorrect impression to begin with. But if I was to give an alternative to "anti-gods" then maybe "step-gods" or "paragods". "God-kin" if it's not just confusing

You have to sail straight South to “fall off the edge of the Earth”. Or in this case to get to the outer waters that you supposedly don’t want to be in.