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Mythology Worlds
NORSE SCANDINAVIA
Tales from the Vikings
Primary Sources on Norse mythology
The Poetic Edda, a collection of songs and poems from old oral traditions
The Prose Edda, written by 13th-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson as a sort of textbook on how to write poetry
Keep in mind that both of these sources were written down AFTER the Viking Age (i.e. after Scandinavia accepted Christianity).
However, if it weren't for the Eddas, Norse mythology would be as obscure as other European mythologies.
Say goodbye to Disney/Marvel's Thor movies!
Creation and the Nine Realms
Norse Gods and their Stories
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are named after these deities.
In the older Norse tales, Loki was more of a traditional trickster god.
He would help out the gods of Asgard when the normal method wasn't working and they needed an unconventional solution...as well as play relatively harmless pranks.
However, once the Norse embraced Christianity, Loki started to become more like the Devil.
His behavior became increasingly malevolent up to and including the murder of Baldr and orchestrating Ragnarok.
Now that there is a growing movement of literal Norse god worshippers in the present day, now's the time for Loki to become a normal trickster again.
Supernatural Entities
Materials used to make Fenrir's chains
The roots of a mountain
The sound of a cat's footsteps
The saliva of a bird
The sinews of a bear
The breath of a fish
The beard of a woman
Ragnarok
Norse Armageddon
Non-Norse Germanic Mythology
Germanic Predecessors of Norse Gods
Tiw[az]--Tyr
Wotan/Woden--Odin
Donar/Thunor--Thor
Frea--Frigg/Freya
A message to those three-inch fools who co-opt Norse mythology and imagery for their hateful ends
The Norse pantheon is very diverse.
The Norse gods are part-giant...AND they fall in love with and mingle with giants.
Loki is of full giantish descent, and a blood brother to Odin.
Freya mingled with dwarves as a way to say thanks for her new necklace.
Heimdall mingled with humans on Midgard and had children with them, and these half-god/half-human children founded the classes of Norse society.
There are no Norse myths that suggest in any way that either the gods of Asgard or the humans of Midgard are super-masters who lord over everyone else in the world.
The Vikings themselves traded with the Arabs, worked for the Byzantine Empire in Asia Minor, and had a lot of enslaved Irish people.
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