Neil Gaiman: Norse Mythology and American Gods

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  • Опубліковано 20 січ 2025

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  • @stelmaria-mx
    @stelmaria-mx 5 років тому +29

    Neil's voice is beautiful

  • @craftchild_9151
    @craftchild_9151 4 роки тому +22

    I love how open minded and fun Neil Gaiman isand how he meshes pop culture well with mythology. 😂👍😊❤
    And I'm grateful that most of us pagans are not as uptight as some other religions. 😂😅

  • @p.c.howard7025
    @p.c.howard7025 5 місяців тому +1

    Great interview!

  • @user-wv9vb1yh7r
    @user-wv9vb1yh7r 7 років тому +23

    I've loved Neil's works ever since my high school English teacher gave me a copy of sandman junior year!

  • @Loomofthefruit-s
    @Loomofthefruit-s 7 років тому +15

    13:19 Great story, heard a longer version as a child

    • @HellaGust
      @HellaGust 7 років тому +6

      Interestingly, the first issue of Peter Madsens Valhall comics also have Loki tricking Þjálfi into breaking the bone. And that initial album was printed back in '79. Great minds think alike I suppose. :D

    • @fakethefun
      @fakethefun 7 років тому

      Loke Odinson me three 😬

  • @BimbleThrooLife
    @BimbleThrooLife 4 роки тому +5

    anyone else well up when he talks about the late great Terry Pratchett and Good Omens?

  • @corinmiyuki4078
    @corinmiyuki4078 7 років тому +17

    I enjoyed this immensely

  • @danieloneal7137
    @danieloneal7137 7 років тому +70

    Only Neil Gaiman could make you feel sad for Fenris Wolf.

    • @kevinpotts123
      @kevinpotts123 6 років тому +19

      Daniel O'Neal that isn't true. I have felt badly for him ever since I first heard the myth about him.

    • @gyrojinn
      @gyrojinn 6 років тому +6

      The fear Odin couldn't conquer begot his most dangerous opponent.

    • @jantekjantek
      @jantekjantek 5 років тому +9

      You now insulted everyone who believes in the old gods. Conception of good and evil has nothing to do with them. Prepare for blood feud! What is you fathers name and yours village?!?

    • @ninfarose
      @ninfarose 3 роки тому

      Love 💗🌁🦃 Beasts and Generis Wolf.

  • @callemdavies7942
    @callemdavies7942 3 роки тому +3

    WOW! I did NOT know Niel wrote for B5! Possibly one of my most treasured influences growing up.

  • @BishopFishSixtySix
    @BishopFishSixtySix 6 років тому +2

    That first comment about learning of Thorr's existence from Neil......Desire plus a learnt behaviour.....so beautifully human

  • @Toasty373
    @Toasty373 4 роки тому +6

    Wonderful author

  • @jackijura249
    @jackijura249 5 років тому +6

    please consider hearing loss and record at a volume we can turn up

    • @StorytellingHeadshots
      @StorytellingHeadshots 4 роки тому +2

      I agree. However one suggestion is you can purchase a external bluetooth speaker that can amplify the sound so yiure not limited to the capacity of your computer’s internal speakers. I like the Oontz brand, which you can find on Amazon.com for less than $30. Good luck! :-) Hope this helps!

    • @constancemiller3753
      @constancemiller3753 4 роки тому +1

      Suggest it in email to the Boston Public Library. They might close- caption thier lectures as an American with Disabilities act public service. They are awesome folk:)

    • @TheSWolfe
      @TheSWolfe Рік тому

      The volume diminishes as video progresses. By its end, I had ear to laptop speaker, which made viewing difficult as I am far-sighted! Lol Annoying, yes, but content worth effort. Thought volume control faulty at first, had to double-check to be sure was turned up all the way.

  • @lunalin9870
    @lunalin9870 2 роки тому +8

    Some of these comments... I could never understand how someone can like Neil's works and still support Trump.

    • @AndrewRMontoya
      @AndrewRMontoya Рік тому

      Sounds like you’re missing key information or believe incorrect information.

  • @cmcgrew98
    @cmcgrew98 3 роки тому +2

    I do love the story of Fenrir!

  • @Randy-1967
    @Randy-1967 3 роки тому +1

    Snorri Sturluson only wrote the pros edda , the poetic edda is older , he in quite a few cases directly quotes the poetic edda

  • @nixeradicatus
    @nixeradicatus 3 роки тому +3

    Greetings from Peak Ragnarok.

  • @mariamkinen8036
    @mariamkinen8036 4 роки тому +1

    I'd love to visit Norway.

  • @ninfarose
    @ninfarose 3 роки тому

    Love you Neil. We share many same passions I think. 🤍🇮🇹💐🦃

  • @kalevala1778
    @kalevala1778 6 років тому +7

    I’ve been workin’ on the whale road, all the live-long day!

  • @ShawnWeeded510
    @ShawnWeeded510 7 років тому +2

    Love this guys work but his comments on a silent comic has literally already been done so the story In Norse mythology he's saying can't be done can be done with the right artist and art style.

  • @clausmatrik2417
    @clausmatrik2417 7 років тому +3

    Loke has something to do with a Spider. the Horse sleibner has 8 legs and Loke is the inventere of fishinnets.

  • @JohnSmith-el2nj
    @JohnSmith-el2nj 7 років тому +1

    I used to read Fantastic! and Terrific!

  • @spoonerbooner
    @spoonerbooner Рік тому

    god I love Neil

  • @djdora
    @djdora 5 років тому +7

    It was both funny and sad when he talked about Terry 😭

  • @howardkoor2796
    @howardkoor2796 3 роки тому +1

    What a mind on that boy!

  • @ninfarose
    @ninfarose 3 роки тому

    Agreeee 🌈🌈🌈 Collingwood Ontario Public Library

  • @brandonknowles1648
    @brandonknowles1648 5 років тому

    Sounds like Wee Small Hours of the Morning was the song he couldn't think of

  • @thetruth45678
    @thetruth45678 5 років тому

    Gods are the prehistoric predator. The hero is the sacrifice, given up to the lion to save the tribe. The conquest of the lion is redemption.

    • @telemetriklongwalk4326
      @telemetriklongwalk4326 3 роки тому +1

      Cute but no

    • @thetruth45678
      @thetruth45678 3 роки тому

      @@telemetriklongwalk4326 The blind never see the truth.

    • @BigHenFor
      @BigHenFor 2 роки тому

      You are blind if you follow the lore of the Hero. Read Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death". Then think how much the pursuit of heroic immortality has caused humanity pain.

    • @thetruth45678
      @thetruth45678 2 роки тому

      @@BigHenFor No. I don't think I will.

  • @supersiamesisk
    @supersiamesisk 2 роки тому

    This is basically what we swedes are thouhgt.

  • @dilly2000
    @dilly2000 2 роки тому

    Jesus

  • @prof_parahelix2390
    @prof_parahelix2390 5 років тому

    In-faux-mation

  • @fullmetaltheorist
    @fullmetaltheorist 4 роки тому +2

    That guy sound like Kermit the frog.

  • @bunnitrixelstrange3594
    @bunnitrixelstrange3594 3 роки тому +2

    I love Neil’s stories great writer. Shame about the Politics. Trump Rules

    • @BigHenFor
      @BigHenFor 2 роки тому +5

      This comment aged like stale milk.

    • @jimpalmer2981
      @jimpalmer2981 2 роки тому

      What an idiot. Apparently you missed tbe whole point of Gaiman’s work.

    • @vincentfoster6811
      @vincentfoster6811 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@BigHenFor No, yours did. 2025, return of the 45th.

  • @RedWolfenstein
    @RedWolfenstein 6 років тому +5

    Really, Trump is more Viking then this guy.

    • @benjicalavera3218
      @benjicalavera3218 5 років тому +14

      Words of Welke i doubt those tiny hands could lift an axe 🤣 You really think me bone spurs would make it as a viking lmao he would be a roman concubine at best 🤣

  • @beeawesome2869
    @beeawesome2869 2 роки тому

    And how about who can teach us about surviving a biden administration?

    • @jimpalmer2981
      @jimpalmer2981 2 роки тому +1

      Ahhhhh, your butthurt is so touching.

    • @beeawesome2869
      @beeawesome2869 2 роки тому

      @@jimpalmer2981 Don't be touching my butt you maniac.

    • @beeawesome2869
      @beeawesome2869 2 роки тому

      @@jimpalmer2981 @Jim Palmer Really? Who or what are you with your snarky comment to me? Are you the Biden / Harris defender of the UA-cam comment section? Or are you really the defender of hurt butts? If so, you must be really busy what with all the snowflakes today, and their butts melting by the word Trump or the simple question, what is a woman or the elementary concept of the biological differences of boys and girls.
      Out of all the comments here, you were touched by mine. And, honestly, in my initial reply, I thought you sounded like a pervert more than a maniac.
      But, whatever the case, my comment was made in good humor even if you didn't understand or get it.
      It's the interviewer's question. I just changed one word. So, is the interviewer, or whoever submitted the question, butthurt too? The changed name doesn't change the meaning. You could exchange Mr Trump with the majority of politician's names, like Brandon or Hillary, and wonder if we will survive. Or, it's possible to stop automatically being so serious about the ever changing and ceaselessly ridiculous and yet usually boring political landscape to find enough humor for a laugh or at least a smile.

    • @jimpalmer2981
      @jimpalmer2981 2 роки тому

      @@beeawesome2869 Aw. Cry, little MAGot. Cry for us. Your poor, tender lwiddle sensitive feewings.

  • @sonnygivens4549
    @sonnygivens4549 5 років тому

    I don't get why every American gods interview he does, the interviewer always has to bring it to politics...and trump....

    • @thegodofimagination
      @thegodofimagination 5 років тому +2

      Well he was ask and American Gods is show/book(i haven't read book i really should) about immigration so it kinda inevitable that in poltical climate around immigration to American especially Trumps stance on it that it would be brought up. Should been maybe not but an interview and we got take grain with the salt as the saying goes

    • @BigHenFor
      @BigHenFor 2 роки тому +3

      Politics is a by product of societies being run as heroic systems. The flirtation with undermining democracy is a by product of one class of people projecting their fear and paranoia into the future. It's all that, so stories are important as they help create that future. So Gaiman need not demur in challenging modern myths.

    • @obcl8569
      @obcl8569 2 роки тому

      @@BigHenFor well said.

  • @stevenlennon12
    @stevenlennon12 6 років тому +5

    GO TRUMP!!

    • @annietrueman7
      @annietrueman7 4 роки тому +12

      Straight to jail🤪

    • @Toasty373
      @Toasty373 4 роки тому

      Neat

    • @obcl8569
      @obcl8569 2 роки тому +5

      Go, get outta here already, you heard the man! Go, Trump! And yes... Straight to jail.

    • @jimpalmer2981
      @jimpalmer2981 2 роки тому

      How stupid can people be, really.

  • @PhilosoFeed
    @PhilosoFeed 3 роки тому

    Lol that's so crazy I totally survived the Trump administration without ever having seen this video.
    How do people like this still show their faces lol.

  • @cozmonauts932
    @cozmonauts932 4 роки тому +1

    didnt know neil was a liberal, i guess its time to read someone else LMAO

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist 4 роки тому +4

      One reader leaving won't affect his sales much

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist 4 роки тому +3

      One reader leaving won't affect his sales much

    • @Swanky11
      @Swanky11 4 роки тому +5

      you won't be missed 🙄

    • @cmcgrew98
      @cmcgrew98 3 роки тому +2

      I suspected that he was a liberal, given that he is good friends with Tori Amos, who is definitely liberal. That being said, though I think it's best to leave politics out of the picture unless it is strictly necessary.

    • @cmcgrew98
      @cmcgrew98 3 роки тому

      My feeling with Gaiman and Amos is that people like them can be very talented at what they do, and one can still learn something from them even if one doesn't necessarily see eye to eye with them on certain political matters.

  • @sistinia88
    @sistinia88 6 років тому +1

    I wish he had kept his political views to himself and stuck with the stories

    •  4 роки тому +7

      He was asked a question and would be rude not to answer. Politics are something that he goes out of his way not to talk about. Also, what exactly did you gleam from his answer, that you had to phrase it as “his political views”? Also also, he does have the right to do whatever he wants and speak his mind in whatever he wishes. Fancy ways of saying “shut up” aren’t nice at all.

    • @telemetriklongwalk4326
      @telemetriklongwalk4326 3 роки тому +1

      So you wish he didn't answer questions in an interview? Such a snowflake

    • @jimpalmer2981
      @jimpalmer2981 2 роки тому +2

      I just bet you do, MAGot.