The Norse Pantheon: Crash Course World Mythology #10
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Date: 2022-04-04
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elena
Most people associate Norse Mythology with Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, but where else do the stories of this belief structure originate?
What are the Vanir and the Asir? What does each represent? Give an example of a god that would belong to each category.
What similarities do you see between the Norse pantheon and the Greek or Egyptian pantheons? List at least 3.
How did Thor end up in a wedding dress?
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Most people associate Norse Mythology with Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, but where else do the stories of this belief structure originate?
What are the Vanir and the Asir? What does each represent? Give an example of a god that would belong to each category.
What similarities do you see between the Norse pantheon and the Greek or Egyptian pantheons? List at least 3.
How did Thor end up in a wedding dress?
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crash_course
Heimdall, the White God, yet political correectness don't care and in the series of Thor he is the VERY opposite: he is black.
I didn't know there was immigrants in scandinavia (and mythical kingdoms) that early.
Priests talking about Heimdall -Lets describe him as the white god, so future generation won't mess with his skin colour-
Centuries later, blackwasher messed his skin colour
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Heimdall, the White God, yet political correectness don't care and in the series of Thor he is the VERY opposite: he is black.
I didn't know there was immigrants in scandinavia (and mythical kingdoms) that early.
Priests talking about Heimdall -Lets describe him as the white god, so future generation won't mess with his skin colour-
Centuries later, blackwasher messed his skin colour
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Andrew
Thank you for bringing up the later association with Greek and Roman pantheons. This has caused a lot of confusion in understanding Norse mythology. Norse traditions did NOT have a -god of. - system. There is no -Norse god of X-. That is a Romano-Greek convention to which the Norse pantheon has been mangled and deformed to try and fit.
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Thank you for bringing up the later association with Greek and Roman pantheons. This has caused a lot of confusion in understanding Norse mythology. Norse traditions did NOT have a -god of. - system. There is no -Norse god of X-. That is a Romano-Greek convention to which the Norse pantheon has been mangled and deformed to try and fit.
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nathan
you need to know that the R in Frey is silent, Odin hung himself on the world tree to see all 13 runes, and Kvasir is the wisest not Bolder. Loki actually took mistletoe, Bolder's only weakness, and guided Hod to shoot it at Bolder. Loki is also a giant.
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you need to know that the R in Frey is silent, Odin hung himself on the world tree to see all 13 runes, and Kvasir is the wisest not Bolder. Loki actually took mistletoe, Bolder's only weakness, and guided Hod to shoot it at Bolder. Loki is also a giant.
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Kirill
Baldur wasn-t in Niflheim. He was in Helheim. Hiflheim is one of the two primordial realms (along with Muspelheim, the realm of eternal cold and darkness. Helheim is the realm of the dead ruled by the Goddess Hel
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Baldur wasn-t in Niflheim. He was in Helheim. Hiflheim is one of the two primordial realms (along with Muspelheim, the realm of eternal cold and darkness. Helheim is the realm of the dead ruled by the Goddess Hel
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Wilson
the prose edda was written relatively new but it predated the judeochristian invasion and cultural shift that may have influenced the norse mythology and freya had a lynx chariot probably
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the prose edda was written relatively new but it predated the judeochristian invasion and cultural shift that may have influenced the norse mythology and freya had a lynx chariot probably
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Aj
The Aesir are giants, just a specific family of them known as -Aesir, - so, Loki is a giant and was blood brothers with Odin, making him part of the Aesir family
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The Aesir are giants, just a specific family of them known as -Aesir, - so, Loki is a giant and was blood brothers with Odin, making him part of the Aesir family
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Shadowkirby
-According to one version, Odin hung himself from the World Tree so he can drink the Mead of Wisdom. -
Did you not mention that he was barking mad?
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-According to one version, Odin hung himself from the World Tree so he can drink the Mead of Wisdom. -
Did you not mention that he was barking mad?
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Kirill
Morse mythology, Prose Edda in particular is FULL of metaphors. The best example how everyone interprets the myth about how Freya got her famous necklace.
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Morse mythology, Prose Edda in particular is FULL of metaphors. The best example how everyone interprets the myth about how Freya got her famous necklace.
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bruv
Jupiter: Origin=Thor, Zeus. (Gods of lighting)
Mars: Origin=Tyr, Ares. (Gods of war)
Mercury: Origin=Heimdall, Hermes (Gods of speed)
Interesting
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Jupiter: Origin=Thor, Zeus. (Gods of lighting)
Mars: Origin=Tyr, Ares. (Gods of war)
Mercury: Origin=Heimdall, Hermes (Gods of speed)
Interesting
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