@@anarchomando7707 I still don't understand why they killed is sons though. I mean, I can't remember them doing anything other than being sired by Loki. That's not their fault.
@@marseldagistani2251 Yep. They needed a distraction in that last night the giant had to build the wall and loki turned into a mare in heat. The giant couldn't finish it without his horse
I don't know if it's the correct term, English is not my mother tongue but he turned himself into a female horse, ready to be mounted, and the giant's horse spent the whole night chasing after her. This encounter led to Sleipnir's existence.
Its echoing a notion which is central to norse mythology. If people are strangers, they are either your friend or enemy - If they are neither, you shouldnt bother with them.
@@swengis2595 It wasn't just that he wanted to mess with Thor either. See, Thor had gotten this really neat stallion named Gullfaxi(which means Golden Mane, in case you were wondering) from a previous adventure involving a Stone Giant, which Odin had really wanted. However, Thor gave Gullfaxi to his son Magni as a reward for his part in said incident. Obviously, this angered Odin, who then engineered the incident with the ferryman as a means to get back at Thor.
Joshua H he should just be the god of hitting things really hard. Booze, enemies, his sack.... the one where he sleeps, guys get your head out of the gutter.
To quote from Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology book: "Because," said Thor "Whenever something goes wrong, the first thing I think is 'it is Loki's fault.' It saves a lot of time."
Some versions of the ferryman story state that it’s Odin in disguise and that he just sometimes disguises himself as regular people just to mess with his kids and friends for shits and giggles. That’s freaking hilarious.
Insulting Bragi is like insulting a bard. As Alan Moore put it: "The bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. ...If you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you... no big deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you." "And if he was a skillful bard, he puts a satire on you, and it destroys you in the eyes of your community...and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were."
Gregory Walter the consistent epicness of bards and those skilled in poetry throughout old sagas is seriously undervalued. Look at my main man Egil. Poetry is the manliest profession and anyone who says otherwise will be epically defamed.
When I was in highschool my teacher described the myth where thor's hammer is stolen as "some bloke steals thor's hammer so he and Loki dress in drag and punch a giant and escape on magic horses."
@@noattendance9801 all honesty i wouldn't recommend it. its a shitty suburban school with 3000-7000 annoying shitheads. at least it was went there until the year i graduated (class of 2017)
@@willieoelkers5568 If you're hungry for some fat and juicy meat Eat my buddy c'mon here and have a treat Come on down and dine On this tasty swine All you have to is get in line If you're achin' (yupyupyup) For some bacon (yupyupyup) He's a big pig You can be a big pig too Oi! (Screaming, snarling, and running away)
That IS pretty much how I envisioned the Lay of Thrym. Freya: No WAY am I marrying Thrym! It's YOUR hammer, YOU get it back! Thor: Well, what do you expect ME to do?! Put on a dress and marry Thrym myself?! (Dead. Silence. Thor looks at Freya, who crosses her arms. Looks at Loki, who grins. Looks at his father, who slowly smiles.) Thor: No. No. Listen, wait a minute, you can't... (Gets dragged off by several of the Aesir, protesting all the way.)
Thor: Well, obviously Freya can't go. Freya: But my twin could. Thor: You don't have a twin. Freya: What size dress do you wear? Thor: 42, why? Freya: (:
@@ZeroGravityFuneral First of all, calm down, take a deep breath. Secondly, I'm pretty sure that in plenty of cultures/mythos that's EXACTLY what gods are - maybe not literally 'in the sky' but definitely more 'people' than anything else. There's obviously a lot of allegory and symbolism tied with these stories, but at the same time plenty of them are framed as proper events that actually did (or will in some cases) happen.
Love the artwork Red did for that story. Loki falling down laughing under the table, making fun of Thor, making excuses for Thor disguised as Freya and the last two shots of Thor getting his hammer back and then wreaking shit.
loki brings the term trickster god to a whole new level; this boy straight up caused the end of the world singlehandedly by doing nothing but pranks the whole time. what an icon
Dont forget he destroys the world on a boat made of Finger/Toenails. *THAT* is next level stuff. Imagine having to collect enough for a Kayak, let alone nordic Warship for the armies of Niflheim and Hel.
@@Frame_Late And those flaming ship burials, as shown in Thor: The Dark World. During that scene, as they drifted Frigga in the boat lavished with flowers, I was thinking "Only the best for the Queen of Asgard". Then they light an arrow, and I'm like "Wait! What? Oh yeah! They did that!".
It’s something that’s done here in Quebec as well, it’s called a “bien cuit” meaning “well cooked”! We had one for my dad’s 60th birthday, it was very fun!
How else would an ancient Norseman prepare to tell a tale of badassery, or do anything cool for that matter, than with a good flagon of mead? If you know my ancestors, you know there is no other way.
@@sflaningam7680 these myths are just a collection of old folktales about how the entire content of Scandinavia came to be they are like the crazy get drunk on mead version of american tall tales😏
@@jadefields695 It's a mythology and a religion like any other. Look at any religion from a cynical enough view and you can boil it down to "just a collection of tall tales." It's what you take away from those tales that matters.
Experts theorize that the whole central premise of The Hobbit is meant to be a proto-myth to Beowulf: The dragon that fights Beowulf near the end of his career (in the original myth) is terrorizing the countryside because an unnamed thief steals a cup from it's hoard. The thing is, Tolkien was famously a huge linguistics nerd, and one of his sticking points with the modern translation of Beowulf was that the correct english translation of the word wouldn't be "thief", but "burglar". Combine this with the fact that the only thing Bilbo actually steals from Smaug before the dragon goes on his roaring rampage of revenge is, you guessed it, a cup, and it's pretty easy to see how Tolkien got the idea.
@@Silverwind87 Odin dressed as an old man using long robes and walking with a cane (his lance) around the 9 realms. Is often seen with his crows and is portrayed using a hood or a wide hat. Tolkien definitely was inspired in Odin just as he took elves and dwarves from Norse myths and add them in his own.
Loki is literally one of those guys who does something pulls out the “it’s just a joke do you have no sense or humour” card when people stop enabling his shittyness for 5 seconds
Loki: Of Course let's not forget that Frayja is sleeping with a married man, HER BROTHER Odin: Loki, that's crossing a line Loki: Oh I guess we don't like dark humor now?
Considering Loki hadn't even done anything bad before Odin heard a prophecy that Loki's children would destroy Odin... and thus He and the Aesir treated Loki's kids horribly and imprisoned them till the end of the world... I can understand Loki not giving a shit about Aesir anymore.
Marvel movie we all want: Thor (Chris Hemsworth) in a dress trying so hard (and failing) to be a passable Freya until he gets Mjölnir back and just goes full raging berserker on everyone in the room for like 90 minutes. Then at the end Loki emerges from a hole, pats Thor on the back and says "Job well done". Thor wacks Loki. Roll credits.
Ok I just need to mention how much I love the stark contrasts of Loki, where in Marvel he's this malevolent supervillain who's apparently an ice giant who wants to rule over all of Asgard, where as in actual norse mythology or at least the way you show it he seems to be this fire child who inconveniences gods and himself whenever he's bored and occasionally goes insane during these things
Well he was one of the giants and not an Aesir. He also wanted to rule time and again, which is why it was super convenient that he was blood bros with Odin. And he did cut of all of Siff's (Thor's wife) hair just because he wanted to. In some stories he even slept with Siff. He also gets Idun to leave Asgaard so she gets kidnapped by a giant thus taking away the Gods immortality and youth.
Loki's mug: World's Best Horse Mom It's the little touches and background details that make me love this series so much! It's also nice to know that Sleipnir appreciates his mommy. Don't know if Fenrir, Hel and Jormungandr feel the same way...
@@Felahliir So the full list of Loki's children (not in order of birth): Fenrir, Jormungandr, Hel, Sleipnir, Narfi/Nari, and Vali. A more detailed section containing their names and the context of their births: Fenrir (Giant Wolf), Jormungandr (Giant Snake), and Hel (half-woman, half-corpse) are children he had by his Giantess wife/mistress (exact word seems to change in the telling). He is their father, and on top of all three ending up imprisoned one way or another by the Aesir, Angrboda herself was sentenced to Helheim for giving birth to such monstrosities (no idea why Loki got off the hook). Sleipnir (Eight Legged Horse, and Odin's steed) In the story Red tells above about the giant fixing up Asgard, but the Aesir not wanting to pay: Loki doesn't distract with fireballs, he instead transforms into a female horse and mates with the giant's work horse, which means the work horse is unavailable to help pull carts full of building supplies around. Afterwards Loki gives birth to Sleipnir. Narfi/Nari (spelling varies) and Vali (depending on the writer, Odin is Vali's father), Loki's only humanoid children, who he had with Sigyn, who is the wife who hold the bowl of poison while he's captured. Apparently when the Aesir are out to punish Loki for the whole Baldr deal, they transform Vali into a wolf, who kills Narfi/Nari, and they use Narfi/Nari's entrails as rope to tie Loki down so he can't escape the snake's venom.
To be precise, the horse banged him... He transformed into a mare to distract the giant's horse. There are also versions where he gave birth to Hela himself after eating the heart of his giant wife Angrboda when she was executed by the gods (apparently a sentimental gesture). Oh and then there is the random reference in the Lokasenna to the time he spend 8 years as a milkmaid on midgard, during which he apparently got around so much he birthed half a dozen kids. Suffice to say Loki is both father and mother to many.
2:33 By “Getting Loki to do his thing” you mean, turning into a mare, distracting the giant’s horse so he couldn’t finish the construction, getting pregnant and giving birth to a magic eight legged horse named Sleipnir and then just giving it to Odin. Yay.
He didn’t really “just give it to Odin.” Sleipnir was a peace offering. It was Loki who suggested taking the builder’s terms in the first place, but he didn’t know that he was a giant at the time, and thus could work faster than most men.
Considering how he's the one who suggests Thor to wear a dress... Me thinks Heimdall just wanted the comedic gold of Thor in a dress. So, uh, yeah, fuck any other explanation, I'M TAKING THIS AS CANON! It's the kind of prank Loki would be proud of.
I think Auðumbla is my favorite part of Norse mythology. She's just a cow from the dawn of creation that let's Ymir drink her milk while she licks the progenitor of the Aesir free from some salty ice. ... What even.
@@andrewlance3898 I didn't mean it in a disparaging way. I just think it's funny and weird that things go from "nothing but a void with the heat of Muspellheim & the chill of Niflheim" to "Suddenly there's a cow that's freeing a giant from a block of ice".
@@CthulhuianBunny I wasn't trying to be disparaging either. I was just commenting on how abstract of a concept 'the beginning of the universe' is, and appreciating that the Norse had a... creative answer
I recently got a copy of the Poetic Edda for my birthday and honestly the part where Loki starts picking a fight with literally everyone is so funny, especially because of how childish some of the insults sound to someone in this day and age. One part had me absolutely DYING because I quote: “Be silent, Freyia, you’re a witch and much imbued with malice. You were with your brother, all the cheerful gods surprised you, and then, Freyia, you farted.” You FARTED?? 😂
I literally just reading it, I got for Christmas, but I never got chance to read it til now. I highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys Norse myths or just wants to read a book.
3:41 Raven: "You wanna go?" 8:17 Fun fact: Loki is the mother of Sleipnir, odin's eight legged horse. How THAT happened is a long story, but it's one of my favourite myths. 11:41 ok so this is kinda complicated. The big reason this myth is so important is because this is what brings about Ragnarok. You see, near the beginning of time, Odin and Loki formed a pact (a blood oath if you will) and that's why they're blood brothers. As a part of this pact, they swore stuff like to never accept anything that wasn't also offered to the other (this is the "favor" Loki is calling in and why Odin HAS to share a drink with Loki). The way I learned the myth, Loki being punished in the way that he was (however deserved), without it also being applied to Odin, was a breach of their oath. Because Asgard and the rule of the Aesir are built on trust and honor, and Odin is the head of it all, him breaking his oath kicks off a series of events that directly lead to Ragnarok and the crumbling of Asgard and the Aesir. (Why it's this specific punishment that causes all this and not any of the many MANY others that Loki received over the mythos and Odin didn't I don't know. I suspect it's either the severity of this particular punishment (deserved or no) or the fact that Loki had SPECIFICALLY invoked the blood oath (which perhaps he'd never done before?) or both.)
I believe he invoked this blood oath due to the fact that he was tied to rock with the entrails of his son. Until the tying of the body with entrails, this was what was done by Loki toward Høđr and Baldr. But the entrails was a step too far. Thus, I believe he invoked it, starting the Ragnarok. I guess other crimes were pardonable or fulfilled in different way.
90% of Norse mythology: Step 1: Loki causes problem Step 2: Gods discover problem Step 3: Gods (correctly) assume Loki is responsible Step 4: Gods force Loki to fix it Step 5: Party
I love how one of Norse mythologies founding myths is that Thor had to leave a guys party to get his friends dad's crock pot at which point he becomes a nusance, annoys his friends dad into a minor physical challenge, apparently brings up some marital issues, then dips with the crock pot. Literally legendary
If I remember correctly, the crock pot was made from the giants fathers skull. That's why it could only be broken by hitting the giants head. Nothing else was equally hard 😂
Daughter-Of -Loki I know this may seem weird but, are you upset with my comment? Cuz i intended it to be a joke. I heard john cena's voice in my head when I wrote the "are you sure about that"
8:51 i never really thought about that! it’s actually so hilarious that LOKI, the SHAPESHIFTER, who has NO PROBLEM WITH TURNING INTO A WOMAN, was not chosen to impersonate Freya. they really just wanted to screw with thor that day
In one myth Odin also turned into a woman (and also does gay magic associated with femininity) so he could have done it too. Both Odin and Loki decided to make Thor dress up lol
Honestly, one of the things that always amazed me in hindsight is that in order for Balder to never be harmed by no creature, weapon, natural catastrophe or plant (apart from the mistletoe), and for every being to cry mourning tears for him in order to resurrect him, that retroactively means that Frigg somehow managed to make bloody Niddhöggr, the grand dragon of Niflheim swear not to harm Balder and cry for him too. Niddhöggr, one of the most malificent beings in Norse Mythology, who gnaws constantly on the roots of Yggdrasil that reach into his cold, drenched home of Niflheim in order to bring the tree down and cause the end of the world and who is destined to survive Ragnarök as one of its sole survivors. Frigg made that thing cry tears for Balder. Frigg had just as huge and heavy metaphorical balls as Thor, Tyr and Heimdall combined, if not even more so.
As an Icelander that did studies on the myths as part of regular schooling, I seem to recall it had something to do with names. Frigg knew the true names of everything and could use them to compel obedience or something like that. (I might be mixing up different stories or something but I don't think so.)
Regarding Odin not being notably different from other head deities like Zeus, I'd like to point out a fascinating theory few people know about: Many if not most of these old polytheistic religions can be traced back to the theoretical reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion the same way their respective languages can. The Proto-Indo-Europeans are thought to have believed in an number of gods, including a thunder god who killed monsters with some sort of heavy weapon and notably Dyeus Phter, or "Sky Father", the head honcho god from whom guys like Zeus are derived. (Dyues becomes Zeus, and also the latin word "deus", and so on.) Odin is an oddity because he's like the one chief god who doesn't seem to have any connection to this primordial Sky Father myth. However, _Tyr_ does, since Tyr's name actually seems to be etymologically related to Dyeus Pther. This makes it a bit suspicious that Tyr is just this minor war god in a pantheon that already has a couple of those yet still stars in some notable myths as if he was a big deal. The theory is that Tyr was actually the OG leader of the early version of the pantheon. However, at some point in the Vendel period the war/knowledge god Odin overtook him in popularity and he was retconned into a much lesser role. I came across this while trying to figure out why the new God of War game treated Tyr as this perfect paragon of a guy when even Baldur got turned into a right bastard. (Note: Despite taking huge liberties with Norse mythology, that game is actually surprisingly well researched.)
I rather like the theory that the corded ware people brought their religion in and as the two people groups intermingled, the gods changed positions in both pantheons. It more easily explains why there are two groups of gods, Aesir and Vanir, and it helps explain the duplications of the gods' spheres. Simply put, we don't know what happened, but we are all happy that some information was preserved.
John Patrick Walsh the same thing happens in ancient Persian and Indian mythology. The gods in India were called Devas and the demons were called Ashuras. In Persia, the chief god was Ahura Mazda, and the demons/giants were called Devas/Deus. Like they were both one culture but had a schism based on opposing views or different groups of patron dieties. The good guys of one side are the bad guys to the opposition, and vice versa. Interesting stuff.
With the languages thing, I saw a picture of the language trees ad where they come from. There is the Indo-European tree and then there is this tiny little shrub next to it which basically just Finninsh. So as you said most are derived from Indo- European and then there is Finnish. A completely bonkers, super hard to learn language.
The funniest thing about the part where Loki is insulting all the gods (11:25), is that the name of the story "Lokasenna" means "Loki's flyting". Flyting, for those who don't know, is an ancient insult contest in which the winner is decided by audience reaction... and they're conducted in verse. So basically Loki is getting into/trying to get into (his day's equivalent of) a freestyle rap battle with all the gods. When I learned this I just imagined Loki putting on a baseball cap backwards and trying to rap battle Thor Loki:"You can't handle my hot rhymes!", and Thor's just like "Spit your hot rhymes at me again and I'll kill you. " Also a side note, Frigg did sleep with both of Odin's brother's while he was gone gaining knowledge every winter (which I guess is part of why winter happens, Odin leaves the throne of Asgard and lets someone else run things while he's gone), it's why Frigg lives in a field in Asgard as opposed to Valhalla, why she sends her handmaidens to Odin when she wants something from him (she literally moved out and had her girlfriends get her CD's and stuff for her), and why Odin swore an oath of bro-hood (or, Broath if you will) to Loki, Loki was the one to tell him what was going on.
44Ryoga44 Lokasenna in Icelandic also means "Final Scene" which is a clear wordplay on it being the final part of Loki in the story (besides Ragnarök).
The "Thor-as-Freya-to-save-his-hammer" story is my favorite, and your version is TEN TIMES BETTER THAN ANY OTHER I'VE HEARED!!! I love seeing the different ways that stories get told, especially different creation myths, this one was hilarious!
Y'know, if I had a nickel for every time a story involving someone wanting to marry Freya was absolutely hilarious, I'd have two nickels. It's not much, but it's funny that it happened twice
well it actually comes from a myth where the gods want to have a wall build at there border so the frost giants wouldn't attack them but they realise that they were closing them self of from the rest of the world so they ask loki to stop the builder by seducing his horse wich he do and that's how odin got sleipner an 8 leget horse
Norse mythology otherwise : The Æsir decided to be horrible people to literally everything which is destined to hurt them in any way (alot of them are loki's family BTW) , from the most minute harm to their (deserved) downfall Oh yeah and they constantly break their promises especially when they are to loki Loki says to odin : Hey blood brother I gave birth to this eight legged horse, which was your fault btw because you made a horrible deal and forced me to do something about it. Odin: Yeah, so ? Why should I care? Loki : Look can you at least take care of it ? And remember it is technically your *nephew* so no horrible stuff. Odin the second loki is gone: Hey nephew do you want to be ridden for eternity Sleipnir: _heavy sweating_ Odin: I'll take that as a yes
I love how you just slipped references into the animation for other Norse myths. I noticed two of these. One was in how the fist-bump issue alluded to Fenrir having eaten Tyr's hand. The other was Loki's coffee mug referencing that one time that Loki saved Asgard by shapeshifting into a female horse. Nice attention to detail there.
@Elalae La So, okay. It starts with a whole different story where the Jotun Thjazi kidnaps Idun, the goddess who gives the Aesir the magical apples that keep them young, so the Aesir kill Thjazi to get her back. (Loki is the one who comes up with the plan to kill Thjazi, but he's also the one who helped him kidnap Idun in the first place.) So then Thjazi's daughter Skadi shows up to make war on Asgard in vengeance, and the Aesir negotiate reparations. They settle on giving her a husband, honoring Thjazi in a way that will be remembered forever, and making her laugh (which she hadn't done since her father's murder). She gets married to the sea-god Njord (she'd wanted to marry Baldur but the Aesir made her pick her husband without seeing anything but his feet), and Odin puts Thjazi's eyes in the sky and makes them stars, but no one can get her to laugh. So Loki gets a goat, ties one end of a rope into its beard, and ties the other end around his testicles. The goat, naturally, freaks, and it turns into a tug-of war between the goat and Loki's balls. So obviously this finally gets Skadi to laugh because that is some funny shit.
Red: there is a goat, I'm not going to tell you what happened with the goat, because UA-cam would take that down in a matter of minutes, but there is a goat
By the way, i just noticed that at 8:17, Loki has a mug which says "World's Best Horse Mom" - I'd like to point it out and commend Red on her details, and sorta forcing me to pause on every elegantly drawn frame - I was wondering why Loki's odd mothering habits were not adressed, know I know
The jotun Skadi accepted nort to take vengeance for the murder of her father at three conditions : -that he would be honored, So Odin took his eyes and made stars out of it. -that she could marry the god of her choice (she wanted Baldr, but ended up with Njord) -That they would make her laugh. Cue the goat, the rope and loki.
@@malum1424 yeah he just goes and impales himself with his own spear and hangs from the world tree for a while and i think he also took out his eye in that myth
@@eglegl343 Odin lost his eye to the giant Mimir, his uncle. It was the price he had to pay to drink from Mimir's well which contained the water of wisdom. And after dropping his eye in the well he now could see all that had passed. He became the wisest of all
*Nah, Too whimsically portrayed with ANIMU influenced doodling style, and misses out on all the "icky" parts of the Norse mythology.* How can she talk about erecting a wall for Asgard and not mention Loki's tryst with the Giant's horse, and gave birth to Sleipnir? Also, they gods didnt just refuse to give Freya to be his wife, they actually agreed, but made a seemingly impossible deal, but were alarmed at how fast his work was. *And the tragic reason behind why Loki got Baldr killed...* And the detailed description of what Loki said to each god in a banquet, which actually WAS substantiated, not "without foundation" as she stupidly claims here. "Freya, is there no one you have not fucked? Fucking Dwarves for the price of getting their treasure, multiple times..." "'Odin, you go around Midgard cross-dressed as a witch! Transvestite!" "And Baldr... he is just too perfect, and that's the problem." and only Odin with his one-eyed wisdom, was the only one to know the deep meaning behind it...
I love how at the start of the second myth, the book Odin is reading literally says ‘phone book’ in elder futhark. The fact that you took the time to learn that makes me admire you and your work even more.
Loki was described as handsome, but in a "devilish" way. Devilishly handsome. Also may have already said it but the ferry driver is hinted at as being Odin in one of his "conspicuously not- Odin" disguises. Also love all of your work, your channel does amazing work, love history & mythology and the world needs more!
I have a classmate who loves Marvel and she won't believe me when I tell her about who Loki really was in north mythology and the fact that he and Thor was not brothers.
As far as I can tell that whole “three female fates” seems pretty common across mythologies. Would love to see a video on the Celtic version “The Morrigan.”
I'm betting the reason that it was so easy to pass of Thor as Freya was not only because the giants were idiots, but also because Freya, being not only the Goddess of fertility and love and all that jazz, was also the Goddess of WAR. So, Freya was probably just as ripped and muscular as Thor.
@@daughter-of-loki1062 No she was, Freya was a goddess of battle and war, she would be fucking ripped. Being a goddess of love doesn't mean she conforms to interpretations of attractiveness which vary even from place to place let alone across actual centuries.
@@daughter-of-loki1062 That sounds less like an actual objective stance and more like a personal problem borne from Western standards of beauty my dude. Also, who cares about whether she was considered attractive or not? I explicitly said "being a goddess of love doesn't mean she conforms to interpretations of attractiveness". Learn to read
I did read, and have you ever seen a picture of an extremely roided out woman? Just, seriously. I never said muscular women can't be attractive. I said overly so.
I like that Marvel was like: *"Let's take Norse Mythology and make it into a ripped dude, a pale, skinny dude and that guy from Transformers? Yeah, hire him too."*
I mean, if they had just *changed all the names* no one would ever know that Marvel had been inspired by gods from the Norse mythology. Other than the names, the only thing really connecting it to Norse myth is the hammer, and at that point it could be hand-waved as a coincidence.
@@helenanilsson5666 This is a story about George, Lord of Thunder, his smart one-eyed father (who is often called the all-father), and the trickster god Steve. George spends his days mainly fighting giants with his hammer only he can wield, bringing peace to the nine realms and walking over this rainbow bridge. Also this cool thing happens where this goddess of death, called Louise, rises up with her undead army and giant wolf friend to destroy shit, and this huge fire-giant called Pierre also destroys shit. Everyone who knows anything about Norse mythology would notice.
are we just not going to talk about how the way loki distracted the giant was he made sexy times with the giant's horse and slowed the work... and the horse baby that loki birthed (because he became a female horse) became Odin's 8 legged mount
And the 8-legged mount is named Sliepnir, and had runes on it's teeth. yeeahh.... At least it's not a ceremony of Macha/Epona, an Irish horse goddess. To reinforce the concept that Macha owned this town/castle, a ceremony would happen wherein the king would uh,...... sexy time with a horse, kill it, and sleep in a pool of it's blood. Yeah, pretty crazy stuff.
Can we compliment Red's voice acting for a minute here? During the Thor Crossdress Myth, we hear Red doing Thor doing Freya. It seems like a little thing, but that is *hard.*
They are literally just super powered humans. If people were as powerful as these gods no way would we not be as rowdy as them. Hell their would be plenty of Loki's. You find out a guy can't die no matter what "Guys let's throw things at him and stab him it'll be hilarious!" A giant steals Thor's hammer when he is asleep blames, Loki and the Giant holds it captive just so he can get a date. They decide to dress up one of the manliest gods as a woman and Loki comes along as a woman too because "I can't miss out on this!"
I was told a version of Baldurs death where Loki found out about the mistletoe by asking Frigg about it (she answered this question for some reason), but Loki didn't use this information until his first 3 children (Fenrir, Hel and Jǫrmungandr) was captured in chains by Odin due to his paranoia/fear (founded or not). In this version Hodur was disliked by the Aesir as he was lame and blind and therefore not much use in combat, which made Hodur resent them, his brother in particular, for having all that he wanted. Hodur was however the god of weaponry and could therefore use them despite his disabilities and when he shot the arrow Loki made, it was intentional and done because both of them disliked the Aesir for their own reason: Hodur was jealous and wanted what Baldur had and also prove that he wasn't useless. Loki wanted revenge on Odin for imprisoning his children and knew that the only way to make it hurt was to kill one of his favourites (and Baldur just happened to be a convenient target) as Odin really didn't care much for the children he had no use for. Which is proven immediately after Baldurs death where Odin skinned Hodur... alive... so yeah. Still a crap father but to a different kid. When Loki is captured Odin decides to cause the death of one of his more human sons and use the entrails to bind Loki (because only his own blood can bind him semi-permanently). The fact that the punishment for Lokis actions was also dealt to the only family he had left made Loki furious and made him swear to burn Asguard to the ground as revenge. A promise he later kept. This is more founded in the idea that Ragnarock is caused by the gods breaking their promises. Loki and Odin made 3 to each other: 1: One may never eat/drink when the other starves. 2: They can never bring harm to anyone related to the other by blood. 3. They can not hurt each other. both of them broke the last 2 and as such Ragnarock was caused. I'm not saying this is the definitive version but it is the one I grew up with and the one I usually stick to when telling it to those who ask.
In most versions Loki asks Frigg Baldur's weakness. Frigg answers. In most versions Hod thought that it wouldn't hurt Baldur. It is also possible Loki was only trying to hurt Baldur and not kill him but Hod hit him in the heart.
It's sweet but isn't. Lokis wife has to go dump the bowl of venom out when it's full and sometimes the venom from the snake will drop onto Lokis face, making him scream and tremble in his entrail-chains. He's pretty scarred by the time Ragnarok happens
Loki's cute in the way cats are cute- even though cats are assholes who will bat your one treasured mug off the coffee table when they damned well please. Because they can.
"They got Loki to do his thing and disrupt the construction" I know you showed Loki fighting the guy, but how he actually did it was just cursed. So, the Giant had a horse with him that was so OP that it was making the job a literal breeze, so Loki distracted the Horse by, and I'm not joking... Having sex with the damn thing. That's how he gave birth to Odin's eight-legged loyal steed, Sliepnir. Yes, LOKI, was the one that gave birth.
Thor: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIII Loki: I don't think I did anything to warrant that …today (why is he holding a mug that says worlds best horse mom?
Queen Kate Rose the vampwerehog Because In one of the Weirdest Norse myths Loki transformed himself into a mare and got impregnated by a stallion whereupon he gave birth to an eight legged horse monster........seriously
it was the giant who rebuilt asaheim/built the wall around it except loki was at fault for letting him get away with bad terms(for the gods) if he managed to complete it within a timespan if he failed he'd get nothing so the other gods forced loki to find a way to slow him down ... and the method that ended up working the best was shapeshifting into a mare to lure of the giants superhorse ... and then he didn't show up for months, until one day, when he came out of the forest with a young 8legged horse for whatever reason it got named sleipnir and is now odins flying steed
I also heard of a version where the mistletoe was a dart, and perhaps Loki only meant to prank him by hurting him a little with the dart, instead it just outright killed him.
"Weapon in hand he sprung from his seat, crushing the skull of his groom. A massacre of a tremendous scale, spraying blood across the room. The joy in his heart could not be met, the slaughter was truly obscene. The darkness within the lightning god, and a CARNAGE SELDOM SEEN."
@@danieloceansmith3156 WELLLLL TEEEECHNCALLLLY it's not REALLLY thor but a cancer paitent who has been given thor's powers and name as Throw is off doing other shit to like learn or some shit I dunno
The Odin and vadfruthnir story is pretty much identical to Gollum and Bilbos riddle contest, two people asking each other riddles until one asks a question only they would know To quote Red: “Tolkein you hack”
This is probably nodded to in American gods, odin goes off chattering about things that he knows; its a long list of things. He finishes by saying that he knows one thing, one last secret that no one else knows about. I imagine that this is it.
Ah yes. The "Hey everyone, watch me tie a billygoat to my testicles and play tug-of-war with it, it's a surefire way to cure a goddess's depression!" Loki story. Marvel probably cut that from the script because they could't afford a live goat. :-P
I remember reading a myth in a high school mythology class about the building of the Asgardian wall a bit more intricately. In this myth, Loki convinces them to hire the guy but give him an impossible deadline so the giant would do a good chunk of work for essentially free. However, the giant is on pace to meat the deadline because he has a really badass horse doing most of the work, so the rest of the Gods tell Loki he'd better stop him before they have to pay up, or they will kill him. As a result, Loki becomes a mare to lure the horse away. The giant comes up a stone short, Thor kills him, and then Loki returns 9 months later with and 8 legged horse that he gifts to Odin. I don't know where my teacher got it from, but damn if that's not the last thing I'll ever forget about high school.
My favorite part of dressing Thor up is that Freya literally has a brother who would've been way more convincing. I mean they probably still would've had to dress thor up because he would've wanted to go but my point still stands.
"Nowhere near as cute as Tom Hiddleston would have you believe." Yet, you have drawn Loki as adorable as possible even by chibi standards.
Me my thoughts:Marvel made loki cute/handsome/sexy??? Idk
Red:i am just going to make him cute non of that anyway
He looks like a smol gremlin
Memento Mori... Unus, Annus...
He's a shapeshifter, he can be as cute as he wants!
@@quintonhoffert6526 true
"if loki survives, kill him" - Odin into Baldur's ear.
No no
Chain him to a Rock with him with the entrails of his own son
@SomeRandomAsianGurl well at least his wife is the only one who
Is keeping him from suffering
@@anarchomando7707 I still don't understand why they killed is sons though. I mean, I can't remember them doing anything other than being sired by Loki. That's not their fault.
@@anarnarqelion4403 they thought he was evil therefore it they will be evil
@@anarchomando7707 poor Narfi and Vali. Why do the gods always punish the children for their parents wrongdoings?!
Thor: DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY BATTLES I'VE FOUGHT IN???!!!
Ferryman: Shut up, your mother buys you mega blocks instead of legos!
Thor: *HHHNNGG*
You fuckin' take that back
_you fking take that back_ *now*
This joke was used for DiVINE norse gods.
@@Green24152 oh yeah, it was.
TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT _NOW_
RIGHT NOW
Loki’s mug: “Worlds best horse mom.”
Me: “I understood that reference.”
didn't loki get banged by the horse that assisted the giant that the Norse gods hired to build the wall of asgard?
@@marseldagistani2251 Yep. They needed a distraction in that last night the giant had to build the wall and loki turned into a mare in heat. The giant couldn't finish it without his horse
And then, Loki was mysteriously absent for a number of months afterwards.....
@@anarnarqelion4403 wait Loki turned himself into a mare in heat? Explain please
I don't know if it's the correct term, English is not my mother tongue but he turned himself into a female horse, ready to be mounted, and the giant's horse spent the whole night chasing after her. This encounter led to Sleipnir's existence.
I like how there's a Norse myth that's just "That one time Thor got roasted by some dude on a boat"
Its echoing a notion which is central to norse mythology. If people are strangers, they are either your friend or enemy - If they are neither, you shouldnt bother with them.
Fun fact, the man in the boat was Odin in disguise who just wanted to mess with Thor
‘Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?’
@@johnthedork723 'oh, wait, she's DEAD'
@@swengis2595 It wasn't just that he wanted to mess with Thor either. See, Thor had gotten this really neat stallion named Gullfaxi(which means Golden Mane, in case you were wondering) from a previous adventure involving a Stone Giant, which Odin had really wanted. However, Thor gave Gullfaxi to his son Magni as a reward for his part in said incident. Obviously, this angered Odin, who then engineered the incident with the ferryman as a means to get back at Thor.
"And Thor does *his* thing and hits the problem really really hard"
To be *fair* this usually does end in his favor lmao
Joshua H he should just be the god of hitting things really hard.
Booze, enemies, his sack.... the one where he sleeps, guys get your head out of the gutter.
If you hit the problem and it doesnt go away, you're not hitting hard enough.
Percussive Maintenance.
"I just kept hitting stuff and it kept working..."
i read his intro as "hits things super hard with his huge ass"
so thats a cool story i guess
To quote from Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology book:
"Because," said Thor "Whenever something goes wrong, the first thing I think is 'it is Loki's fault.' It saves a lot of time."
Marvel Thor: Loki can't be THAT evil.
Canon Thor: Loki, what the fuck did you do this time.
Love that book!
This sounds like my brother, who when something goes wrong, he imidiatly blames me.
@Georgena Weaver what book
I want that book
I'll never have enough of Neil Gaiman which book is it
@@donnamitsuki281 It's just called Norse Mythology I'm not even kidding.
Some versions of the ferryman story state that it’s Odin in disguise and that he just sometimes disguises himself as regular people just to mess with his kids and friends for shits and giggles. That’s freaking hilarious.
Serious dad energy on that one.
Imagine dressing up as your sons uber driver just to roast him and make him walk
Yo lo veo más como Loki, digo, ya que sus insultos recuerdan al de Lokasenna.
serious dad energy
Odin refused to give his kid a ride
Insulting Bragi is like insulting a bard. As Alan Moore put it: "The bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. ...If you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you... no big deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you."
"And if he was a skillful bard, he puts a satire on you, and it destroys you in the eyes of your community...and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were."
Maybe the last part of the story wasn't actually real, but Bragi just put them there because he was so pissed.
Gregory Walter explains why Loki’s got such a bad rap these days
Deyr fé,
deyja frændr,
deyr sjalfr it sama,
ek veit einn,
at aldrei deyr:
dómr um dauðan hvern.
@@mackereltabbie precisely!
Gregory Walter the consistent epicness of bards and those skilled in poetry throughout old sagas is seriously undervalued. Look at my main man Egil. Poetry is the manliest profession and anyone who says otherwise will be epically defamed.
When I was in highschool my teacher described the myth where thor's hammer is stolen as "some bloke steals thor's hammer so he and Loki dress in drag and punch a giant and escape on magic horses."
"What do you want me to do!? Dress in drag and punch a giant!?"
(one Gilligan Cut later...)
"LUAU!"
One Fluffy Boy how do I transfer to your school?
@@noattendance9801 all honesty i wouldn't recommend it. its a shitty suburban school with 3000-7000 annoying shitheads. at least it was went there until the year i graduated (class of 2017)
You had a cool teacher.
I mean that's technically what happened
*At the Thor's hammer is being taken part*
Thor: what? Do you want me to dress in drag and do the hula?
All the gods: yes.
Luau!!
@@willieoelkers5568
If you're hungry for some fat and juicy meat
Eat my buddy c'mon here and have a treat
Come on down and dine
On this tasty swine
All you have to is get in line
If you're achin' (yupyupyup)
For some bacon (yupyupyup)
He's a big pig
You can be a big pig too
Oi! (Screaming, snarling, and running away)
Alex Bliss Haha
That IS pretty much how I envisioned the Lay of Thrym.
Freya: No WAY am I marrying Thrym! It's YOUR hammer, YOU get it back!
Thor: Well, what do you expect ME to do?! Put on a dress and marry Thrym myself?!
(Dead. Silence. Thor looks at Freya, who crosses her arms. Looks at Loki, who grins. Looks at his father, who slowly smiles.)
Thor: No. No. Listen, wait a minute, you can't... (Gets dragged off by several of the Aesir, protesting all the way.)
Thor: Well, obviously Freya can't go.
Freya: But my twin could.
Thor: You don't have a twin.
Freya: What size dress do you wear?
Thor: 42, why?
Freya: (:
I absolutely adore the Thor dressing as Freya story. Loki was absolutely having a *blast* with that
"I should go to more weddings."
It’s symbolic, the gods literally aren’t human shaped people in the sky…
Wtf is wrong with the internet
@@ZeroGravityFuneral First of all, calm down, take a deep breath.
Secondly, I'm pretty sure that in plenty of cultures/mythos that's EXACTLY what gods are - maybe not literally 'in the sky' but definitely more 'people' than anything else.
There's obviously a lot of allegory and symbolism tied with these stories, but at the same time plenty of them are framed as proper events that actually did (or will in some cases) happen.
Yep
Love the artwork Red did for that story. Loki falling down laughing under the table, making fun of Thor, making excuses for Thor disguised as Freya and the last two shots of Thor getting his hammer back and then wreaking shit.
"No way as cute as tom hiddleston would have you believe"
Red's art style: And I a joke to you?
Imagine the Thor movies if Loki were a short gremlin type character.
OH MY GOD
DANNY DEVITO AS LOKI
Bre Barnes help I find drawings more attractive than actual people
I need therapy-
@@autumn_3989 The thought process of everyone who watches anime
Bre Barnes but just look at mustang (fma-)
You can’t say he’s not even slightly good looking
@@autumn_3989 I mean, I ain't even watched fma yet and I agree
loki brings the term trickster god to a whole new level; this boy straight up caused the end of the world singlehandedly by doing nothing but pranks the whole time. what an icon
"this *boy* "
exactly
New prank show plzzzzzz
I’m serious
This needs to be a show
The ultimate reddit troll
The ORIGINAL pranskter
Dont forget he destroys the world on a boat made of Finger/Toenails. *THAT* is next level stuff. Imagine having to collect enough for a Kayak, let alone nordic Warship for the armies of Niflheim and Hel.
So who else remembers that time Loki got knocked up by a horse.
I didn’t stutter.
I do.
What the fuck is this? Norse's version of a r34?
I thought it was Loki who knocked up the horse, not the other way around.
Nope. Loki is the mother of a bouncing, eight legged, magical horse.
Mhm, Odin's trusty steed Sleipnir.
Fun fact: Loki roasting everyone was actually something that all vikings did at celebrations. Sometimes it was even organised into a Flyting.
So, the Vikings did celebrity roasts AND rap battles...? Wow...!
@@videogollumer Yes, along with human sacrifices at a special ritual called the great Blót.
@@Frame_Late And those flaming ship burials, as shown in Thor: The Dark World. During that scene, as they drifted Frigga in the boat lavished with flowers, I was thinking "Only the best for the Queen of Asgard". Then they light an arrow, and I'm like "Wait! What? Oh yeah! They did that!".
It’s something that’s done here in Quebec as well, it’s called a “bien cuit” meaning “well cooked”! We had one for my dad’s 60th birthday, it was very fun!
@@Frame_Late Nowadays we just call that a football match. Seriously, just look at the body count of sports.
Norse mythology really is a bunch of awesome stories told by drunk Norsemen.
Just a bunch of drunk stories. Makes sense
How else would an ancient Norseman prepare to tell a tale of badassery, or do anything cool for that matter, than with a good flagon of mead? If you know my ancestors, you know there is no other way.
@@sflaningam7680 these myths are just a collection of old folktales about how the entire content of Scandinavia came to be they are like the crazy get drunk on mead version of american tall tales😏
@@jadefields695 It's a mythology and a religion like any other. Look at any religion from a cynical enough view and you can boil it down to "just a collection of tall tales." It's what you take away from those tales that matters.
Yeah, it's the "last weekend me and my bros got so fucked up..." kinda pantheon
oh my god, when you said "leave your marvel based assumptions at the door there" i almost cried tears of joy
Same.
matthew fanous Agreed
Yes. Marvel is just worthless scum!
I don't think Marvel even TRIED to make it reasonable.
I completely agree. But I can't be mad at them. They _did_ bring us Spider-Man...
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can..
3:12 "Odin is having none of this forethought business." That's funny because Frigg is the goddess of foresight. Nice one Red.
Ironic how she still overlooked the mistletoe
@@NikkiBudders It's that whole "you can't cheat fate" bit. Even a deity who can foresee future events can't avert a preordained event.
@@willieoelkers5568 Well yeah, you'd need to win the alien spirit virus/extension of your psyche lottery for that.
@@alchemicpunk1509 The fu-
Behind every great man is a woman who you should definitely listen to when she tells you not to talk to the guy who tortures people.
The boatman saying "Doth your mother know you wearath her drapes" gets a mighty cackle out of me. Nice reference
In a version I read the boatman is boasting about banging thors mom. This is because for some reason Odin wanted to antagonize thor incognito
Loki with the 'World's Best Horse Mom' mug is A+
Heh, loved that hint.
I love how Red is telling these ancient, mythological, stories like they’re stories somebody is telling at a bad party
You know, "bad" is pretty objective. I, for one, would love this party, and considerung this comment, you might as well
@@evobrand1210 Well I guess I just meant that the party is so bad, that it would elicit us to tell the good story to make things more interesting
@@ryomahoffman6803 alright, I accept that
honestly Odin would probably pull up to a college house party and be like ‘you kids wanna hear what my son did once’
So Bilbo saying “what is in my pocket” Is taken from Odin saying “what did I whisper in the dead guy’s ear”?
Isn't Gandalf based off Odin?
I’m not sure, but like referenced in the video, his name is straight up taken from the Eddas
_Tolkien you hack_
Experts theorize that the whole central premise of The Hobbit is meant to be a proto-myth to Beowulf: The dragon that fights Beowulf near the end of his career (in the original myth) is terrorizing the countryside because an unnamed thief steals a cup from it's hoard. The thing is, Tolkien was famously a huge linguistics nerd, and one of his sticking points with the modern translation of Beowulf was that the correct english translation of the word wouldn't be "thief", but "burglar". Combine this with the fact that the only thing Bilbo actually steals from Smaug before the dragon goes on his roaring rampage of revenge is, you guessed it, a cup, and it's pretty easy to see how Tolkien got the idea.
@@Silverwind87 Odin dressed as an old man using long robes and walking with a cane (his lance) around the 9 realms. Is often seen with his crows and is portrayed using a hood or a wide hat.
Tolkien definitely was inspired in Odin just as he took elves and dwarves from Norse myths and add them in his own.
Loki is literally one of those guys who does something pulls out the “it’s just a joke do you have no sense or humour” card when people stop enabling his shittyness for 5 seconds
That’s a perfect comparison actually
This is what Tom Hiddleson should play as
Just like he's the abusive man who keeps his wife subservient out of fear of his retribution.
Loki: Of Course let's not forget that Frayja is sleeping with a married man, HER BROTHER
Odin: Loki, that's crossing a line
Loki: Oh I guess we don't like dark humor now?
Considering Loki hadn't even done anything bad before Odin heard a prophecy that Loki's children would destroy Odin... and thus He and the Aesir treated Loki's kids horribly and imprisoned them till the end of the world... I can understand Loki not giving a shit about Aesir anymore.
If Greek Mythology is a soap opera melodrama, then Norse Mythology is a college comedy.
Yes.
Eeeew. No, it's the other way around!
1987MartinT @
@@combatwombat7115 I still think Norse is best ;)
@Jacob Harton @Jacob Harton i think hentai would be a better discription....
Marvel movie we all want: Thor (Chris Hemsworth) in a dress trying so hard (and failing) to be a passable Freya until he gets Mjölnir back and just goes full raging berserker on everyone in the room for like 90 minutes. Then at the end Loki emerges from a hole, pats Thor on the back and says "Job well done". Thor wacks Loki. Roll credits.
They should have worked this into Love and Thunder somehow. Thor Odinson doing a bad drag act because people are expecting The Mighty Thor (Jane)
I need this more than ever
And Loki would say: you know you should wear black from now on
Please xD
Hold on. I got a friend I can pitch that to.
Loki, tied to a rock: “ ok guys, you can untie me now! “
Loki: “ guys? “
NEVER! You killed Baldr; you bastard!
He and Prometheus can chill together
@@wardabatool717 Prometheus did nothing wrong
Well... He did in the eyes of Zeus
"Baldr was a god of forgivness"
Ok I just need to mention how much I love the stark contrasts of Loki, where in Marvel he's this malevolent supervillain who's apparently an ice giant who wants to rule over all of Asgard, where as in actual norse mythology or at least the way you show it he seems to be this fire child who inconveniences gods and himself whenever he's bored and occasionally goes insane during these things
Depending on the writer, Marvel Loki on a spectrum between those.
Well he was one of the giants and not an Aesir. He also wanted to rule time and again, which is why it was super convenient that he was blood bros with Odin. And he did cut of all of Siff's (Thor's wife) hair just because he wanted to. In some stories he even slept with Siff. He also gets Idun to leave Asgaard so she gets kidnapped by a giant thus taking away the Gods immortality and youth.
@@McMoOniE wait he banged siff?
@@mohammedyousef4005 in some versions of the story, yes he did
@@McMoOniE how did Thor react did they have any children?
Loki's mug: World's Best Horse Mom
It's the little touches and background details that make me love this series so much!
It's also nice to know that Sleipnir appreciates his mommy. Don't know if Fenrir, Hel and Jormungandr feel the same way...
Just had to give you a hundred likes it was driving me crazy
Is Loki a mom? Or did he have kids with his wife?
@@Felahliir So the full list of Loki's children (not in order of birth): Fenrir, Jormungandr, Hel, Sleipnir, Narfi/Nari, and Vali.
A more detailed section containing their names and the context of their births:
Fenrir (Giant Wolf), Jormungandr (Giant Snake), and Hel (half-woman, half-corpse) are children he had by his Giantess wife/mistress (exact word seems to change in the telling). He is their father, and on top of all three ending up imprisoned one way or another by the Aesir, Angrboda herself was sentenced to Helheim for giving birth to such monstrosities (no idea why Loki got off the hook).
Sleipnir (Eight Legged Horse, and Odin's steed) In the story Red tells above about the giant fixing up Asgard, but the Aesir not wanting to pay: Loki doesn't distract with fireballs, he instead transforms into a female horse and mates with the giant's work horse, which means the work horse is unavailable to help pull carts full of building supplies around. Afterwards Loki gives birth to Sleipnir.
Narfi/Nari (spelling varies) and Vali (depending on the writer, Odin is Vali's father), Loki's only humanoid children, who he had with Sigyn, who is the wife who hold the bowl of poison while he's captured. Apparently when the Aesir are out to punish Loki for the whole Baldr deal, they transform Vali into a wolf, who kills Narfi/Nari, and they use Narfi/Nari's entrails as rope to tie Loki down so he can't escape the snake's venom.
@@Felahliir Yes
Yeah, just don't say that to Loki's face if you're not a God. He may curse you, I'm not joking on that.
Can we stop and talk about how Loki detained the giant from rebuilding Asgard? He banged the dude's horse.
He banged the dude's horse...AS A HORSE
@@barbaro267 AND GOT PREGNANT
And birthed a spider horse eleven months later and adopted it off to Odin
To be precise, the horse banged him... He transformed into a mare to distract the giant's horse. There are also versions where he gave birth to Hela himself after eating the heart of his giant wife Angrboda when she was executed by the gods (apparently a sentimental gesture). Oh and then there is the random reference in the Lokasenna to the time he spend 8 years as a milkmaid on midgard, during which he apparently got around so much he birthed half a dozen kids. Suffice to say Loki is both father and mother to many.
@@Shamangirl92 What do you expect from a deity who will even have sex with rocks and trees?
2:33 By “Getting Loki to do his thing” you mean, turning into a mare, distracting the giant’s horse so he couldn’t finish the construction, getting pregnant and giving birth to a magic eight legged horse named Sleipnir and then just giving it to Odin.
Yay.
It is referenced at 8:17 on the mug, "best horse mom"
He didn’t really “just give it to Odin.” Sleipnir was a peace offering. It was Loki who suggested taking the builder’s terms in the first place, but he didn’t know that he was a giant at the time, and thus could work faster than most men.
Andrew Ollmann I know the legend, it was merely in summary
Yes🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That would make Odin it's blood uncle, which kinda sounds wrong in a way.
*Loki:* No fear.
*Red:* "And then Thor shows up..."
*Loki:* All fears
"... And that one time an ice giant breaksr into Asgard and steals Mjiolnir"
Nice one Heimdallr, good to see you're on the job.
He can hear grass growing, but can’t hear a mountain giant breaking in....
Maybe he had the night off/was drunk at the time?
@@johnnygyro2295 I'll bet on the second one, yeah.
Considering how he's the one who suggests Thor to wear a dress... Me thinks Heimdall just wanted the comedic gold of Thor in a dress.
So, uh, yeah, fuck any other explanation, I'M TAKING THIS AS CANON! It's the kind of prank Loki would be proud of.
I think Auðumbla is my favorite part of Norse mythology. She's just a cow from the dawn of creation that let's Ymir drink her milk while she licks the progenitor of the Aesir free from some salty ice.
...
What even.
At least it's not another "God and Goddess bang until they splooge out a universe" creation myth
@@andrewlance3898 I didn't mean it in a disparaging way. I just think it's funny and weird that things go from "nothing but a void with the heat of Muspellheim & the chill of Niflheim" to "Suddenly there's a cow that's freeing a giant from a block of ice".
@@CthulhuianBunny I wasn't trying to be disparaging either. I was just commenting on how abstract of a concept 'the beginning of the universe' is, and appreciating that the Norse had a... creative answer
I want to know what drugs the Norse were on when they made the Voluspa and where I can get some
Did i just got a seizure or should i read Norse mythology?
“Couldn’t stay away from my sparkling wit?”
“I’m about to Sparkle your wits halfway across the ocean!”
Best scene. No doubt.
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@@noattendance9801 not anymore.
I recently got a copy of the Poetic Edda for my birthday and honestly the part where Loki starts picking a fight with literally everyone is so funny, especially because of how childish some of the insults sound to someone in this day and age. One part had me absolutely DYING because I quote:
“Be silent, Freyia, you’re a witch and much imbued with malice. You were with your brother, all the cheerful gods surprised you, and then, Freyia, you farted.”
You FARTED?? 😂
I literally just reading it, I got for Christmas, but I never got chance to read it til now. I highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys Norse myths or just wants to read a book.
lmao this got a good cackle out of me
"Tolkien, you hack!" 😂😂😂
Apparently he stole the impossible riddle idea too.
The entire idea about elves and dwarves, was also ripped from Norse mythology.
And a lot of other stuff, that I can't be bothered to list here...
Elves and Dwarves were also a bit different in the old myths, he definitely changed things up and brought in some originality.
I had that moment when I read the story of Turin Turambar, straight-up stolen from the Kalevala...
Michaela Bauer I saw the name Gandalf in the list...
3:41 Raven: "You wanna go?"
8:17 Fun fact: Loki is the mother of Sleipnir, odin's eight legged horse. How THAT happened is a long story, but it's one of my favourite myths.
11:41 ok so this is kinda complicated. The big reason this myth is so important is because this is what brings about Ragnarok. You see, near the beginning of time, Odin and Loki formed a pact (a blood oath if you will) and that's why they're blood brothers. As a part of this pact, they swore stuff like to never accept anything that wasn't also offered to the other (this is the "favor" Loki is calling in and why Odin HAS to share a drink with Loki). The way I learned the myth, Loki being punished in the way that he was (however deserved), without it also being applied to Odin, was a breach of their oath. Because Asgard and the rule of the Aesir are built on trust and honor, and Odin is the head of it all, him breaking his oath kicks off a series of events that directly lead to Ragnarok and the crumbling of Asgard and the Aesir. (Why it's this specific punishment that causes all this and not any of the many MANY others that Loki received over the mythos and Odin didn't I don't know. I suspect it's either the severity of this particular punishment (deserved or no) or the fact that Loki had SPECIFICALLY invoked the blood oath (which perhaps he'd never done before?) or both.)
I believe he invoked this blood oath due to the fact that he was tied to rock with the entrails of his son. Until the tying of the body with entrails, this was what was done by Loki toward Høđr and Baldr. But the entrails was a step too far. Thus, I believe he invoked it, starting the Ragnarok. I guess other crimes were pardonable or fulfilled in different way.
Weirdly enough, the story with Loki's runaway also credits him as the inventor of fishing nets
"Who would even mistake me for a woman"
-Thor
Well apparently a very drunk Ice Giant, if you put a certain thunder god in a dress
It's a warning about beer goggles.
One hot cross dresser am I right?
🎶 And nobody knows where he might end up, nobody knows 🎶
90% of Norse mythology:
Step 1: Loki causes problem
Step 2: Gods discover problem
Step 3: Gods (correctly) assume Loki is responsible
Step 4: Gods force Loki to fix it
Step 5: Party
Step 6: party more
@@jsc1jake512 step 7: loki comes in and ruins the party
@@cgt3704 Step 8. Aaaaaaaaaand we’re back to step 1
@@beccag2758 repeat untill ragnorok
The other 10 includes them causing trouble but also blaming/making loki solve it anyway.
Norse mythology summarised: They drank a whole lot of booze.
Samini the B
"Theres one thing worse than a normal murder"
"A Child"
Or Loki got bored
very true
Or alternatively, "and then we killed all the giants and drank a whole lotta mead!" Or, yet again, "DAMMIT LOKI!!"
Thrym: Hey Freya, wanna see Thor's hammer?
Thor!Freya: HELL YE--! *ahem* Yes darling!
That delivery just kills me! XD
and the rest of the party as well.
XD
Loki: I should go to more weddings.
@@salt2123 freya: i should stop giving people my father jacket😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
rip
This is making Norse Mythology sound like a fun sitcom or anime filler. Really great summarization
Pretty much all politheistic mythologies sound like sitcom or soap opera (at least from perspective of gods)
I want this amine made!
I love how one of Norse mythologies founding myths is that Thor had to leave a guys party to get his friends dad's crock pot at which point he becomes a nusance, annoys his friends dad into a minor physical challenge, apparently brings up some marital issues, then dips with the crock pot. Literally legendary
one of my favorite myths
If I remember correctly, the crock pot was made from the giants fathers skull. That's why it could only be broken by hitting the giants head. Nothing else was equally hard 😂
"I don't have a raven for impulse control" is my new motto for online shopping.
She called Tolkine a "hack" and Odin a "huge-nerd" in this one, and idk which is funnier
Honestly just calling the head god a nerd is blasphemy 100 and I'm all for it
@@foundation2854 fair point
@@petermarsella6537 Same for calling Tolkien, widely considered the trendsetter for high fantasy, a hack.
@@Silverwind87 The real Blasphemy is not highlighting Dain alongside the other dwarf names that Tolkien took from the list.
IMO ‘huge nerd’ because it gave me a patron god. Odin, god of Nerds!
"Thor is not a girl" *thor dresses up as freya*
Are you sure about that Red?
Yes we're sure about that.
Daughter-Of -Loki I know this may seem weird but, are you upset with my comment? Cuz i intended it to be a joke. I heard john cena's voice in my head when I wrote the "are you sure about that"
At least Thor felt pretty.
Freya mad thor look better than her
i thought it said thot lol
8:51 i never really thought about that! it’s actually so hilarious that LOKI, the SHAPESHIFTER, who has NO PROBLEM WITH TURNING INTO A WOMAN, was not chosen to impersonate Freya. they really just wanted to screw with thor that day
In one myth Odin also turned into a woman (and also does gay magic associated with femininity) so he could have done it too. Both Odin and Loki decided to make Thor dress up lol
Honestly, one of the things that always amazed me in hindsight is that in order for Balder to never be harmed by no creature, weapon, natural catastrophe or plant (apart from the mistletoe), and for every being to cry mourning tears for him in order to resurrect him, that retroactively means that Frigg somehow managed to make bloody Niddhöggr, the grand dragon of Niflheim swear not to harm Balder and cry for him too.
Niddhöggr, one of the most malificent beings in Norse Mythology, who gnaws constantly on the roots of Yggdrasil that reach into his cold, drenched home of Niflheim in order to bring the tree down and cause the end of the world and who is destined to survive Ragnarök as one of its sole survivors.
Frigg made that thing cry tears for Balder.
Frigg had just as huge and heavy metaphorical balls as Thor, Tyr and Heimdall combined, if not even more so.
Diablo Just normal things a mother will do for her children
And she still couldn't make Loki cry for him, which shows just how much Loki actually hated him.
As an Icelander that did studies on the myths as part of regular schooling, I seem to recall it had something to do with names. Frigg knew the true names of everything and could use them to compel obedience or something like that. (I might be mixing up different stories or something but I don't think so.)
Jóhann Sigurðsson OMG she literally pulled the “calling-you-by-your-full-name-when-she’s-mad” trick on the entire universe! 😂
Regarding Odin not being notably different from other head deities like Zeus, I'd like to point out a fascinating theory few people know about: Many if not most of these old polytheistic religions can be traced back to the theoretical reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion the same way their respective languages can. The Proto-Indo-Europeans are thought to have believed in an number of gods, including a thunder god who killed monsters with some sort of heavy weapon and notably Dyeus Phter, or "Sky Father", the head honcho god from whom guys like Zeus are derived. (Dyues becomes Zeus, and also the latin word "deus", and so on.)
Odin is an oddity because he's like the one chief god who doesn't seem to have any connection to this primordial Sky Father myth. However, _Tyr_ does, since Tyr's name actually seems to be etymologically related to Dyeus Pther. This makes it a bit suspicious that Tyr is just this minor war god in a pantheon that already has a couple of those yet still stars in some notable myths as if he was a big deal.
The theory is that Tyr was actually the OG leader of the early version of the pantheon. However, at some point in the Vendel period the war/knowledge god Odin overtook him in popularity and he was retconned into a much lesser role.
I came across this while trying to figure out why the new God of War game treated Tyr as this perfect paragon of a guy when even Baldur got turned into a right bastard. (Note: Despite taking huge liberties with Norse mythology, that game is actually surprisingly well researched.)
I rather like the theory that the corded ware people brought their religion in and as the two people groups intermingled, the gods changed positions in both pantheons. It more easily explains why there are two groups of gods, Aesir and Vanir, and it helps explain the duplications of the gods' spheres. Simply put, we don't know what happened, but we are all happy that some information was preserved.
Tyr is best boi.
Edit- He does everything right.....until binding Fenrir....then he does everything left.
TL;DR?
John Patrick Walsh the same thing happens in ancient Persian and Indian mythology. The gods in India were called Devas and the demons were called Ashuras. In Persia, the chief god was Ahura Mazda, and the demons/giants were called Devas/Deus. Like they were both one culture but had a schism based on opposing views or different groups of patron dieties. The good guys of one side are the bad guys to the opposition, and vice versa. Interesting stuff.
With the languages thing, I saw a picture of the language trees ad where they come from. There is the Indo-European tree and then there is this tiny little shrub next to it which basically just Finninsh. So as you said most are derived from Indo- European and then there is Finnish. A completely bonkers, super hard to learn language.
The funniest thing about the part where Loki is insulting all the gods (11:25), is that the name of the story "Lokasenna" means "Loki's flyting". Flyting, for those who don't know, is an ancient insult contest in which the winner is decided by audience reaction... and they're conducted in verse.
So basically Loki is getting into/trying to get into (his day's equivalent of) a freestyle rap battle with all the gods. When I learned this I just imagined Loki putting on a baseball cap backwards and trying to rap battle Thor
Loki:"You can't handle my hot rhymes!", and Thor's just like "Spit your hot rhymes at me again and I'll kill you. "
Also a side note, Frigg did sleep with both of Odin's brother's while he was gone gaining knowledge every winter (which I guess is part of why winter happens, Odin leaves the throne of Asgard and lets someone else run things while he's gone), it's why Frigg lives in a field in Asgard as opposed to Valhalla, why she sends her handmaidens to Odin when she wants something from him (she literally moved out and had her girlfriends get her CD's and stuff for her), and why Odin swore an oath of bro-hood (or, Broath if you will) to Loki, Loki was the one to tell him what was going on.
44Ryoga44 There needs to be a rap battle video with Loki insult no everyone. Or Hamilton style rapping. That'd be amazing
Absolutely there needs to be one!
You got the "oath of brohood( or broath if you will) "from Extra history the crusades episode didn't you?
44Ryoga44 ?
44Ryoga44 Lokasenna in Icelandic also means "Final Scene" which is a clear wordplay on it being the final part of Loki in the story (besides Ragnarök).
The "Thor-as-Freya-to-save-his-hammer" story is my favorite, and your version is TEN TIMES BETTER THAN ANY OTHER I'VE HEARED!!! I love seeing the different ways that stories get told, especially different creation myths, this one was hilarious!
Y'know, if I had a nickel for every time a story involving someone wanting to marry Freya was absolutely hilarious, I'd have two nickels. It's not much, but it's funny that it happened twice
"World's best horse mom"
Best cup ever.
well that a part of the Asgard building story that Overly Sarcastic Productions seemed to have forgotten.
well it actually comes from a myth where the gods want to have a wall build at there border so the frost giants wouldn't attack them but they realise that they were closing them self of from the rest of the world so they ask loki to stop the builder by seducing his horse wich he do and that's how odin got sleipner an 8 leget horse
*stares in horror* part two electric bungalow
"Thor is not a chick"
No, he's a large Australian man.
Large, *hot* , Australian man...FTFY.
“Of course it was Loki, it’s always Loki”
Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman
Norse mythology otherwise :
The Æsir decided to be horrible people to literally everything which is destined to hurt them in any way (alot of them are loki's family BTW) , from the most minute harm to their (deserved) downfall
Oh yeah and they constantly break their promises especially when they are to loki
Loki says to odin :
Hey blood brother I gave birth to this eight legged horse, which was your fault btw because you made a horrible deal and forced me to do something about it.
Odin: Yeah, so ? Why should I care?
Loki : Look can you at least take care of it ? And remember it is technically your *nephew* so no horrible stuff.
Odin the second loki is gone:
Hey nephew do you want to be ridden for eternity
Sleipnir: _heavy sweating_
Odin: I'll take that as a yes
I love how you just slipped references into the animation for other Norse myths. I noticed two of these. One was in how the fist-bump issue alluded to Fenrir having eaten Tyr's hand. The other was Loki's coffee mug referencing that one time that Loki saved Asgard by shapeshifting into a female horse. Nice attention to detail there.
"Did I ever tell you about the time Loki tied a goat to his-"
THIS WHOLE VIDEO IS GOLD
Only for Skadi
Gotta make a girl laugh somehow.
@Elalae La So, okay.
It starts with a whole different story where the Jotun Thjazi kidnaps Idun, the goddess who gives the Aesir the magical apples that keep them young, so the Aesir kill Thjazi to get her back. (Loki is the one who comes up with the plan to kill Thjazi, but he's also the one who helped him kidnap Idun in the first place.)
So then Thjazi's daughter Skadi shows up to make war on Asgard in vengeance, and the Aesir negotiate reparations. They settle on giving her a husband, honoring Thjazi in a way that will be remembered forever, and making her laugh (which she hadn't done since her father's murder). She gets married to the sea-god Njord (she'd wanted to marry Baldur but the Aesir made her pick her husband without seeing anything but his feet), and Odin puts Thjazi's eyes in the sky and makes them stars, but no one can get her to laugh.
So Loki gets a goat, ties one end of a rope into its beard, and ties the other end around his testicles. The goat, naturally, freaks, and it turns into a tug-of war between the goat and Loki's balls.
So obviously this finally gets Skadi to laugh because that is some funny shit.
@Elalae La It turned out great for me, who also didn't know the story! Now i don't have to go look it up!
Red: there is a goat, I'm not going to tell you what happened with the goat, because UA-cam would take that down in a matter of minutes, but there is a goat
By the way, i just noticed that at 8:17, Loki has a mug which says "World's Best Horse Mom" - I'd like to point it out and commend Red on her details, and sorta forcing me to pause on every elegantly drawn frame - I was wondering why Loki's odd mothering habits were not adressed, know I know
also at 3:04 if you translate the runes on the book it actually says "phone book" I thought that was the coolest
5:07 odinn to geirroth's son "did I ever tell you about the time loki tied a goat to his..."
for those who know...
Gas Lar I get the reference
Gas Lar I remember. What I don't remember is *why*
The jotun Skadi accepted nort to take vengeance for the murder of her father at three conditions :
-that he would be honored, So Odin took his eyes and made stars out of it.
-that she could marry the god of her choice (she wanted Baldr, but ended up with Njord)
-That they would make her laugh. Cue the goat, the rope and loki.
“Tolkien! You hack!” Easily my favourite joke by you guys.
Loki laughing his butt off at Thor posing as Freda was beautifully animated! 😂
“Doth mother know you wearth her drapes? Oh wait, she’s dead” No, I’m dead 🤣
Was wondering if someone caught that
They missed the myth where Odin just hangs himself from the world tree for a week, all for knowledge.
I need to marinate my brain juices, what better way to keep them there
The w h a t
@@malum1424 yeah he just goes and impales himself with his own spear and hangs from the world tree for a while and i think he also took out his eye in that myth
@@eglegl343 Odin lost his eye to the giant Mimir, his uncle. It was the price he had to pay to drink from Mimir's well which contained the water of wisdom. And after dropping his eye in the well he now could see all that had passed. He became the wisest of all
I love how it's dropped in the middle of nowhere in the text.
You are one of the most underrated UA-camrs. I like your content and I am quite the critic.
*Nah, Too whimsically portrayed with ANIMU influenced doodling style, and misses out on all the "icky" parts of the Norse mythology.*
How can she talk about erecting a wall for Asgard and not mention Loki's tryst with the Giant's horse, and gave birth to Sleipnir? Also, they gods didnt just refuse to give Freya to be his wife, they actually agreed, but made a seemingly impossible deal, but were alarmed at how fast his work was.
*And the tragic reason behind why Loki got Baldr killed...*
And the detailed description of what Loki said to each god in a banquet, which actually WAS substantiated, not "without foundation" as she stupidly claims here. "Freya, is there no one you have not fucked? Fucking Dwarves for the price of getting their treasure, multiple times..." "'Odin, you go around Midgard cross-dressed as a witch! Transvestite!" "And Baldr... he is just too perfect, and that's the problem." and only Odin with his one-eyed wisdom, was the only one to know the deep meaning behind it...
Agree.
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777 likes? >:3 now its 778 heh heh heh
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I love how at the start of the second myth, the book Odin is reading literally says ‘phone book’ in elder futhark. The fact that you took the time to learn that makes me admire you and your work even more.
OMG! Loki's World's best horse mom mug cracks me up XD
Zombles Allegoy Same😂
Zombles Allegoy These references are the best
Your mini version of Loki is my new favorite loki ever. Jesus that ball of fluff is just loving being him and I can get behind that.
TheGodOfShoes
He could get away with murder for a while... oh wait
At baldr ‘s funeral
Odin: *whispers: THE FURRIES ARE COMING*
That's why balder told toke not to cry. I'd rather stay in hel too
Egyptian Pantheon: You called?
@@KuvaDrinker Are you saying all furries go with Freya or to Valhalla? Cause that's what you're implying.
"Penis penis penis." >8D
*baldur
Red: Leave all your marvel-based assumptions by the door
Also Red: **Makes a marvel reference at **6:30****
Nice :)
"Got any fours?"
"I DONT KNOW"
poor Hodur
Poor Hodur 😂
Loki was described as handsome, but in a "devilish" way. Devilishly handsome. Also may have already said it but the ferry driver is hinted at as being Odin in one of his "conspicuously not- Odin" disguises. Also love all of your work, your channel does amazing work, love history & mythology and the world needs more!
Mikel Doomsday
That's kind of interesting, but if so then how come he was making fun of Thor at all? Let alone the fact that his Mom was dead?
so he could without seeming rude
Mikel Doomsday fuckin odin
I have a classmate who loves Marvel and she won't believe me when I tell her about who Loki really was in north mythology and the fact that he and Thor was not brothers.
Hello Im Weird north mythology
Loki shapeshifted into to a horse, fucked a giant and gave birth to Odins horse Sleipnir. That one probably won't be in the next MCU movie......
@@erikenqvist9081
I wish it was! That sounds god damn hilarious!
@@artsyscrub3226 Btw he shapeshifted into a female horse.
Blood uncle/nephew
As far as I can tell that whole “three female fates” seems pretty common across mythologies. Would love to see a video on the Celtic version “The Morrigan.”
I'm betting the reason that it was so easy to pass of Thor as Freya was not only because the giants were idiots, but also because Freya, being not only the Goddess of fertility and love and all that jazz, was also the Goddess of WAR. So, Freya was probably just as ripped and muscular as Thor.
Probably not.
@@daughter-of-loki1062 No she was, Freya was a goddess of battle and war, she would be fucking ripped. Being a goddess of love doesn't mean she conforms to interpretations of attractiveness which vary even from place to place let alone across actual centuries.
I never said she didn't have muscle, but extremely ripped women tend to look more disturbing then attractive, even by viking standards.
@@daughter-of-loki1062 That sounds less like an actual objective stance and more like a personal problem borne from Western standards of beauty my dude. Also, who cares about whether she was considered attractive or not? I explicitly said "being a goddess of love doesn't mean she conforms to interpretations of attractiveness". Learn to read
I did read, and have you ever seen a picture of an extremely roided out woman? Just, seriously. I never said muscular women can't be attractive. I said overly so.
I like that Marvel was like:
*"Let's take Norse Mythology and make it into a ripped dude, a pale, skinny dude and that guy from Transformers? Yeah, hire him too."*
I mean, if they had just *changed all the names* no one would ever know that Marvel had been inspired by gods from the Norse mythology. Other than the names, the only thing really connecting it to Norse myth is the hammer, and at that point it could be hand-waved as a coincidence.
i do love transformers...
@@helenanilsson5666 This is a story about George, Lord of Thunder, his smart one-eyed father (who is often called the all-father), and the trickster god Steve.
George spends his days mainly fighting giants with his hammer only he can wield, bringing peace to the nine realms and walking over this rainbow bridge.
Also this cool thing happens where this goddess of death, called Louise, rises up with her undead army and giant wolf friend to destroy shit, and this huge fire-giant called Pierre also destroys shit.
Everyone who knows anything about Norse mythology would notice.
Is your profile picture Poseidon from Percy Jackson? Because that’s great.
are we just not going to talk about how the way loki distracted the giant was he made sexy times with the giant's horse and slowed the work... and the horse baby that loki birthed (because he became a female horse) became Odin's 8 legged mount
+Dr. Barber Take a closer look at his mug (and I don't mean his face).
+Matilda omg ty
Worlds Best Horse Mom
And the 8-legged mount is named Sliepnir, and had runes on it's teeth. yeeahh.... At least it's not a ceremony of Macha/Epona, an Irish horse goddess. To reinforce the concept that Macha owned this town/castle, a ceremony would happen wherein the king would uh,...... sexy time with a horse, kill it, and sleep in a pool of it's blood. Yeah, pretty crazy stuff.
That is just so many kinds of wrong
Can we compliment Red's voice acting for a minute here? During the Thor Crossdress Myth, we hear Red doing Thor doing Freya. It seems like a little thing, but that is *hard.*
Thriem: Hey Freya, wanna see "Thor's Hammer"?
Thor: YES
Loki: THOR, NO!
Oh my gosh, Norse mythology is so weirdly funny XD
I prefer gods who just like to party and have a good time, with some human follies every once in a while :x
Yeah, the one where Thor had to cross-dress to get his hammer back from the frost giant king was hilarious.
They are literally just super powered humans. If people were as powerful as these gods no way would we not be as rowdy as them. Hell their would be plenty of Loki's. You find out a guy can't die no matter what "Guys let's throw things at him and stab him it'll be hilarious!" A giant steals Thor's hammer when he is asleep blames, Loki and the Giant holds it captive just so he can get a date. They decide to dress up one of the manliest gods as a woman and Loki comes along as a woman too because "I can't miss out on this!"
Yeah. I especially liked the last story. Loki was like, "Calm down guys, you're acting like I killed Baldr! I mean I did, but-- oh crap. Bye!"
I was told a version of Baldurs death where Loki found out about the mistletoe by asking Frigg about it (she answered this question for some reason), but Loki didn't use this information until his first 3 children (Fenrir, Hel and Jǫrmungandr) was captured in chains by Odin due to his paranoia/fear (founded or not).
In this version Hodur was disliked by the Aesir as he was lame and blind and therefore not much use in combat, which made Hodur resent them, his brother in particular, for having all that he wanted.
Hodur was however the god of weaponry and could therefore use them despite his disabilities and when he shot the arrow Loki made, it was intentional and done because both of them disliked the Aesir for their own reason:
Hodur was jealous and wanted what Baldur had and also prove that he wasn't useless.
Loki wanted revenge on Odin for imprisoning his children and knew that the only way to make it hurt was to kill one of his favourites (and Baldur just happened to be a convenient target) as Odin really didn't care much for the children he had no use for. Which is proven immediately after Baldurs death where Odin skinned Hodur... alive... so yeah. Still a crap father but to a different kid.
When Loki is captured Odin decides to cause the death of one of his more human sons and use the entrails to bind Loki (because only his own blood can bind him semi-permanently). The fact that the punishment for Lokis actions was also dealt to the only family he had left made Loki furious and made him swear to burn Asguard to the ground as revenge. A promise he later kept.
This is more founded in the idea that Ragnarock is caused by the gods breaking their promises. Loki and Odin made 3 to each other:
1: One may never eat/drink when the other starves.
2: They can never bring harm to anyone related to the other by blood.
3. They can not hurt each other.
both of them broke the last 2 and as such Ragnarock was caused. I'm not saying this is the definitive version but it is the one I grew up with and the one I usually stick to when telling it to those who ask.
Nice fanfiction
In most versions Loki asks Frigg Baldur's weakness. Frigg answers. In most versions Hod thought that it wouldn't hurt Baldur. It is also possible Loki was only trying to hurt Baldur and not kill him but Hod hit him in the heart.
Well Ragnarok only could happen if Baldr died and some other stuff
@@Spauso well in comparison Hera from greek myth is even worse
drageben Mother of the year
Is it just me or is Loki’s wife holding a bowl above him to prevent venom hitting his eyes just incredibly sweet?
It's sweet but isn't. Lokis wife has to go dump the bowl of venom out when it's full and sometimes the venom from the snake will drop onto Lokis face, making him scream and tremble in his entrail-chains. He's pretty scarred by the time Ragnarok happens
Loki to Freya: "Ha! You have sex sometimes!"
Me to Loki: "Dude, you have kids. You have sex sometimes."
Ciara.Chaya Tyr to loki: you also sired the wolf that ate my freaking hand and can destroy the world!
Fenrir is goodboy, he didn't mean to do the thing... he still deserve treats
"You had sex with a male horse, your point?'
It´s pretty dificult to believe you that Loki isn´t cute when you draw him in such a great way.
Loki's cute in the way cats are cute- even though cats are assholes who will bat your one treasured mug off the coffee table when they damned well please. Because they can.
Fun fact: the fisherman who taunts Thor is actually Odin in disguise! (I grew up with these poems and it's awesome to see you doing them!!!!)
I didn't know that! Thanks for that fun fact.
lol I know it would be someone familiar!
@@nadiaparamita101 oh really i thought it was an olympian insulting an asgardian😏
"They got Loki to do his thing and disrupt the construction"
I know you showed Loki fighting the guy, but how he actually did it was just cursed. So, the Giant had a horse with him that was so OP that it was making the job a literal breeze, so Loki distracted the Horse by, and I'm not joking...
Having sex with the damn thing. That's how he gave birth to Odin's eight-legged loyal steed, Sliepnir. Yes, LOKI, was the one that gave birth.
Thor: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIII
Loki: I don't think I did anything to warrant that …today
(why is he holding a mug that says worlds best horse mom?
Queen Kate Rose the vampwerehog
Because In one of the Weirdest Norse myths Loki transformed himself into a mare and got impregnated by a stallion whereupon he gave birth to an eight legged horse monster........seriously
@@ryanhelbling5678 huh… ok then
thanks
it was the giant who rebuilt asaheim/built the wall around it
except loki was at fault for letting him get away with bad terms(for the gods) if he managed to complete it within a timespan
if he failed he'd get nothing
so the other gods forced loki to find a way to slow him down
... and the method that ended up working the best was shapeshifting into a mare to lure of the giants superhorse
... and then he didn't show up for months, until one day, when he came out of the forest with a young 8legged horse
for whatever reason it got named sleipnir and is now odins flying steed
Long story short, when Red said Loki "distracted the giant," she meant he shapeshifted into a mare and banged the guy's horse.
Lets not forget that he gave birth to odins 8 legged horse afterward
I also heard of a version where the mistletoe was a dart, and perhaps Loki only meant to prank him by hurting him a little with the dart, instead it just outright killed him.
Or just a giant mistletoe that crushed him.
8:14
He woke up in fear and doubt, hammerless and mad.
"Give it back at once you thief, or I'll go tell my dad!"
"Weapon in hand he sprung from his seat, crushing the skull of his groom.
A massacre of a tremendous scale, spraying blood across the room.
The joy in his heart could not be met, the slaughter was truly obscene.
The darkness within the lightning god, and a CARNAGE SELDOM SEEN."
3:03 I love how "phone book" is written in Elder Futhark runes
'And Thor is not a chick'
Also Thor: Wears a dress
A dress does not a chick make.
That is an odd pairing of situations...
In mythology he dresses in drag, and in marvel he is literally a woman....
Interesting coincidence
@@danieloceansmith3156 WELLLLL TEEEECHNCALLLLY it's not REALLLY thor but a cancer paitent who has been given thor's powers and name as Throw is off doing other shit to like learn or some shit I dunno
@@sarafontanini7051
Which is called Lady Thor, and is somehow totes much better than the real Thor...she's also an extremely violent feminist.
@@The_Crimson_Fucker awful thing
I remember reading “the one where Thor wears a dress” as a kid and absolutely loved it! So glad it’s in this video!
"Thor did his thing and hit the problem super hard." That's why his weapon is a hammer folks!
The Odin and vadfruthnir story is pretty much identical to Gollum and Bilbos riddle contest, two people asking each other riddles until one asks a question only they would know
To quote Red: “Tolkein you hack”
Y'know, being the god of knowledge, he probably whispered ANYTHING into baldr's ear because he wanted to know something NOBODY knew.
This is probably nodded to in American gods, odin goes off chattering about things that he knows; its a long list of things. He finishes by saying that he knows one thing, one last secret that no one else knows about. I imagine that this is it.
New theory: Thor snuggled mjolnir like a teddy bear when he sleeps and so he tends to wake up with scorch marks in his beard and a bruise or two
LOL! "Did I ever tell you about the time Loki tied a goat to his-"
Also the fist bump with Tyr SLAYED me.
Ah yes. The "Hey everyone, watch me tie a billygoat to my testicles and play tug-of-war with it, it's a surefire way to cure a goddess's depression!" Loki story.
Marvel probably cut that from the script because they could't afford a live goat. :-P
*stares in horror*
YES the story of how Loki made Skaði laugh is one of my faves! Great to tell at a party!
I remember reading a myth in a high school mythology class about the building of the Asgardian wall a bit more intricately. In this myth, Loki convinces them to hire the guy but give him an impossible deadline so the giant would do a good chunk of work for essentially free. However, the giant is on pace to meat the deadline because he has a really badass horse doing most of the work, so the rest of the Gods tell Loki he'd better stop him before they have to pay up, or they will kill him. As a result, Loki becomes a mare to lure the horse away. The giant comes up a stone short, Thor kills him, and then Loki returns 9 months later with and 8 legged horse that he gifts to Odin. I don't know where my teacher got it from, but damn if that's not the last thing I'll ever forget about high school.
"Thor's not a chick"
~LATER~
Hey, you guys wanna hear about the time Thor wore a dress?
*truth 100*
That's the joke
@@cooperm4185 I know, I just think its funny
@@cielphantomhive3204 any butler worth his salt would know
I love how Loki is done in these stories and extra bits! "I should go to more weddings" is da best
1:30 "This is the Vhlshpah."
As an Icelander, I love this.
isn't it actually pronounced Vol-oos-pa?
My favorite part of dressing Thor up is that Freya literally has a brother who would've been way more convincing. I mean they probably still would've had to dress thor up because he would've wanted to go but my point still stands.