You can tell these stories started with drunken vikings spinning bullshit so late to night it is actually morning, with listeners questioning the plot and storyteller hastily patching over with ever more weirdness.
I mean, the Greeks made up dumb shit about Zeus banging women as animals, the Vikings made up dumb shit about adventures Thor and Loki went on. Honestly, the Vikings seem like the more emotionally healthy of the two groups.
this story is like when a kid writes a story "Thor wakes up and then his hammer is GONE! and he looks but it was KIDNAPPED! by, um, GIANTS! and the giant says he won't give it back unless he gets to MARRY the beautiful lady!! but Thor wants to be like a spy so he gets dressed up like her and go undercover to get married instead of her and the giant is stupid and he gets trickted! and then Thor gets the hammer and they all die, THE END!!". so many twists, so good
Might I just say that I wandered into your channel in my quest to brush up on my D&D knowledge as I have been out of the loop for ten years ... but you are quite the story teller! Most splendid :).
Had to watch this video again after seeing a Panic! At The Disco meme that related to it: "Yes, but what a shame, what a shame the poor groom's bride is, uh...Thor?"
Small problem with your rendition, in the Myths Loki was blood brothers with Odin not Thor. Which would technically make Loki Thor's uncle. Which is even more hilarious as they get up to all the wacky shenanigans, but it's just a dude and his chill uncle shooting the breeze
Firstly, I'm new here and adore this telling style of mythology. Absolutely hilarious and captivating. Secondly, to those who love this story may I suggest The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. Harris. I couldn't stop thinking of it while listening to this. Basically norse lore but all narrated by Loki.
Loki isn't Thor's brother in the myths, neither is Mjölnir only able to be lifted by the worthy (it's super heavy and difficult to wield, which is why Thor needs his iron gauntlets, but there's no moral assessment)
There's a great song about this! It's called ""theft of the hammer", by Brothers of Metal. Highly recommended, it's funny and musical-inspired, and it's got heavy metal in it!
Who did the cute drawings? Did you do the drawings? They were wonderful. ^w^ I watched The Met's production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, so this was a very nice addition to my Norse kick I've been feeling.
You know, it occurs to me that the stories from norse mythology tends to have some rather dubious moral themes. Everyone lies and cheats their way through every story expect for Thor who just wants to murder anything that moves, and anyone who for just the briefest of moments decides to play fair gets screwed.
I don't want to sound snob, and you probably said "brother Loki" as an expression, but just to mention that Loki and Thor are not brothers in traditional Norse mythology
but... how did they move the hammer? is the hammer liftable or not? is it just "the power" that requires worthiness ? why didnt Freya remind Thor he's the god of thunder & not hammers?
It can get quite complicated depending on who the mother's actually are. Thor, and Odin had mothers who were giants, and in some version were the same giant. Loki and Odin were oath brothers, everyone agrees with that, but it if Thor and Odin were half brothers(as well as father a son) than by the transitive property of drunken myths I guess they could be brothers.
5 days ago? Looked it up because Titan Forge released a skin for this story. Read the story before, just wants to hear it, and wants to see the funny comments.
I guess my problem with this is how did the king of the giants (who is played pretty buffoonishly in this piece) actually get Mjolnir? This guy doesn't seem like the brains of the operation.
Do you know anything about pegasus and the golden bridle. I don't, don't even know if it would make an good story but, well, it's Greek mythology so boring is probably not a suitable word. I'm interested anyway.
Can I steal your stepson's hammer so I can demand you to be my wife, too? I looked up Freya's relationship to Thor for this joke and all I could find is that she was Odin's wife (I wanted my shitty joke to at least be mythologically accurate). By that logic you're married. Congrats.
I have always loved your narrations and stories but this one in particular has me a little... bored?, not sure about the word. You already did this one, with more doodles and a different tone of voice? pacing? I can't really put my finger on what exactly was but I liked the first version better... although it could be the nostalgia of the old videos... it didn't happen with the other "new versions".. not sure. Sorry if this annoys you... just trying to put into words something, not as an insult or anything, again, I have loved your videos in general...
Thank you, I'm a non-native English speaker from Italy and I still couldn't understand what Dael was trying to say. To my ears, both names sounded like Freya when she said them, lol
I love the sheer insanity of these traditional Norse tales. It's so nice to have a Loki portrayal that encompasses the good side of the trickster he's meant to be. Marvel's megalomaniacal version kinda pervades how most people think of him.
I've always maintained that once you learn to ignore the implied "because he's Satan", of Norse Christian scholarly works, Loki sounds less like the architect of all evil , and more like that one character in a kids' cartoon that has to constantly relearn lessons about friendship
People get Loki all wrong. He is not a super hellish God of Evil, he's more like the God of Mischief. I think of him like a Dennis the Menace with godly powers more than anything.
If there is a real god, it's Thor. If you don't believe me, go sailing out of sight of shore in a thunderstorm and find out for yourself :) PS: the trick for most English speakers to pronouncing "Freyr" is don't try to pronounce the "y" at all. Just ignore it. Just say "Frerr" and you'll get closer to right and save a world of confusion. When saying "Freyja" do pronounce it, like you're saying "Freyya."
The band Brothers of Metal has a song about this myth, called Theft of the Hammer: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--PSflfYC2qk.html . All their songs are based from Norse mythology
I was just having a conversation last week with a friend about Thor's wedding, trying to remember who he was getting married to! I wish I'd watched this video first so I could have been more confident when I said it was definitely not Ymir.
I had forgotten this story and was sure that after getting married doo was 'bout to say somethin like: "Oh, yeah that whole thing about me stealing the hammer, yeah I have idea where it is. I didn't steal it." which was going to lead to much more shenanigans.
