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i got a book on fables and its honestly very interesting
i also got a book on viking folklore so I’m most likely gonna dedicate myself to learning about myths, folklore, other stories and such but yeah
theres really just something about fantasy books that peaks your interest you know?
These are my favorite TV shows so far......
and I'm sure there will be more in the future.
1. Supernatural
2. Hannibal
3. The boys
4. Vikings
5. Gotham
6. Hemlock Grove
7. The Punisher
8. Kingdom
And I also want to see The Witcher
Every fanfiction I've read so far....
Who are these Divas? There duo name should be Hexbomb :)
just some assassin's Creed Valhalla Photos that I have taken over the years
Currently rewatching Vinland Saga and recalled how in the middle of this very serious and hard-hitting episode, there's this random villager who looks way too good and he appears for like 1 second and never again, like??? The hell? Idk if this was the choice of the animators or if Makoto Yukimura himself drew him but like why? Why make him so hot if [SPOILERS] you wanna kill him off within the next minute??
i just wanted to be self-indulgent again with some vikings breach,, can you even blame me
where the breach content at,y'all,, im starving
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“He called me you’re whore…. Which I am, and have freely chosen to be”
Today I went to a Viking Festival!
And I got some goodies!
From top to bottom:
Coyote mandibles that say Odin's Wolves
A carved deer antler
A turtle collar bone
And a deer toe
Some ADORABLE earrings
And I got a bunch of information on Norwegian naming practices and some geneology sheets and websites!
A group of Scandinavians built a replica of a Viking ship from scratch using only technology that would have been available at the time, then set sail from Norway to the US to prove the Vikings could have easily made the trip 500 years before Columbus did. Source Source 2 Source 3
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𝔗𝔥𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔬𝔣 𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔰
7 𝔡𝔢𝔳𝔦𝔩𝔰 𝔴𝔞𝔦𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔡𝔬𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔬 𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔫
𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔪𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔞𝔩 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔯𝔦𝔭 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔞𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯
𝔞𝔰𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔶𝔬𝔲, 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶, 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔢
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Finally making that post about Loki
I hate how many people look at Loki (especially with a post-Marvel lens) and act like the Christian writers turned him from a generally heroic gender-fluid god into a Satan-esque villain. It’s like these people only read the parts of the myths that support this claim and then ignore every other myth that Loki is in.
First off with the gender-fluid stuff, he only turns into a female three or four times (one of them is theorized to be Loki but never outright confirmed). All of these times are a different race (Horse, Aesir, Jotun), and all situational. The horse is to lure away Svadilfari and stop the builder from finishing Asgard’s wall , the Aesir (never stated what race his is here) is to accompany Thor as his bridesmaid to make sure the plan works (and probably watch Thor be embarrassed by the dress he’s wearing) (Þrymskviða), another as the Aesir to learn about Baldur’s weakness to mistletoe, and the final one is to stop Baldur from coming back to life after Loki got him killed. I’m pretty sure Loki turns into a bird more often. Finally in the Lokasenna, he and Odin insult each other for doing unwomanly things, Odin doing magic and Loki giving birth to children (yes plural), and then Frigg (or Freyja) pretty much tells them to leave their skeletons in the closets.
Secondly, there is a post I’ve seen a couple times (and it is what inspired me to make this post) by @incorrectnorse-quotes where they got a message saying Loki is a faithful husband. The problem with this is that it forgets that Angrboda exists. Loki has had sex with three people that with children coming from them, and he claims a fourth. The three he has children from are; Svadilfari (Sleipnir), Angrboda (Fenrir, Hel(a), and Jormungandr), and his wife Sigyn (Vali and Narfi). He (and Odin at one point) claims to have had sex with Thor’s wife Sif. That claim is said by Loki during the Lokasenna, after Sif says he can’t say anything bad about her.
Finally while I agree that he isn’t the devil figure some make him out to be, he definitely isn’t what I would consider a good person (some people seem to think he is the nicest person in Asgard). For example, he once completely plucked out a woman’s (Sif’s) hair, for no given reason (an event which led to the creation of Mjolnir). Another example is the murder of Baldur (which we are probably missing some context to, but I’m working off the context we have), where he gets Baldur killed for “complaining about nightmares of his death.” My final example comes from the Lokasenna again, where the entire story is “Loki crashes a party, uses an old oath to stop from getting kicked out, insults almost everyone at the party (except Thor), admits to killing Baldur, then leaves.”
Also I’m not sure what version of the builder myth OSP was using, but in the version I'm familiar with the Aesir only agree to a deal with the builder (after shorting his time from three seasons to one) because of Loki’s advice, which is why they have him fix the problem.
All things considered, Loki seems to be Asgard’s resident asshole and occasional problem solver.
For a more in depth look I’d recommend this essay by Reddit user u/rockstarpirate, where he talks also about Norse gender views. (Warning it’s 21 pages)
I hate the “Ragnarök is a Post-Christian Myth” theory.
First off, it feels like most people see that Snorri Sturluson was Christian and immediately assume he did what the Irish monks did to Irish mythology. This completely ignores why he wrote the myths down, which was to establish a cultural connection between Iceland and Norway, in order to try and get Iceland to join the Kingdom of Norway (which failed). It also ignores that fact that he WASN’T A MONK. Outside of a part about the Aesir being Trojans and living in Asia (which makes no sense when looking at the rest of the Edda and the myths within), and some stuff about some great god who is more powerful than all of the Aesir and is never actually named, there isn’t much evidence to there being large post-Christian changes.
The second problem is that the theory focuses too much on Loki. He doesn’t do much during Ragnarök. He captains a ship (whatever that meant to the Norse) and he kills/dies to Heimdallr. Each of his kids from Angrboda does more. Fenrir eats Odin, and in some versions also the sun, moon, and stars. Jormungandr floods Midgard and poisons the sky, along with killing the strongest of the Aesir, Thor. Hel(a) brings an army of Draugr from her realm to fight Odin and Freya’s einherjar (Freya got half of those who died in battle). I agree that Ragnarök is a story of revenge, but its not Loki’s. ITS THE JOTNAR’S REVENGE. Revenge for a long list of insults and grievances that started with the killing of Ymir during the Voluspa by Odin and his brothers. Also, both Fenrir and Jormungandr are getting revenge against the gods they hate most, whom they are stated to kill. In the end Surtr, king of Muspelheim, kills Freyr, destroys Asgard, and burns all of the worlds (which since they are made of Ymir’s corpse, make this technically Ymir’s funeral pyre). Also the Jotnar on Loki’s ship aren’t his troops, they are led by a different Jotun, and it isn’t even his ship.
I could do an entire other post on the problems with how Loki gets viewed through modern lenses, and I’m tempted to.
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