Norse Mythology is a little complicated...
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2021
- All my recommended resources for learning about Norse Mythology, down below!
(Not affiliate links because I forgot to discolse that in the video and I aint gonna take chances.)
Thanks to Adam B from Ludohistory for helping me with my research. Check out his channel!
/ @ludohistory
And also his (much more thorough) video on studying Norse Mythology:
• How To Study Norse Myt...
Books:
*All of these texts are available with other translations for free on the Viking Society Web Publications website. But if you enjoy physical books like me, these are available too!
The Poetic Edda: www.amazon.com/Poetic-Edda-Ox...
The Prose Edda: www.amazon.com/Prose-Edda-Myt...
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman: www.amazon.com/Norse-Mytholog...
Websites:
Norse Mythology for Smart People (See disclaimer in video): norse-mythology.org/
Jackson Crawford: / jacksoncrawford
Viking Society Web Publications (FREE translations of Prose and Poetic Eddas!): vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/
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One huge resource I forgot to mention was Adam B from Ludohistory, who helped me a ton with my research. He made a much more thorough video on how to study Norse Mythology. Please check it out!
I’m Swedish and I just realised that I’ve probably learned this stuff in the most classic way possible. I just grew up here and heard these stories and was told about the gods by tons of different people and sources and stuff. Like I read a lot of books in the library about it but I also just like heard stories in school and from my parents friends and stuff
Funny enough, some Aesir were much pretty giant. Like…
as a dane i have always been trigered by the word giant, because it isnt called giant in danish but jætte, but there is no word for jætte in english
This is probably what I’m going to use this to give people before I give them a full summary of everything I know about Norse Mythology
"they don't have a bible" uh buddy, ever heard of rick riordan?
I remember a book I had with Norse stories where it was written kind of as a prequel to the bible. As in after ragnarök 2 humans survived and that was Adam and Eve.
Pretty cool things to know. Honestly thought Egyptian mythology was the hardest to give order but looks like Norse is pretty hard too. Wanna read those books.
Actually I am a Hindu and in Hinduism there are actually around 20
I’m Swedish and my mom told me ALOT about Norse mythology. I also read a lot when I was a little kid.(I should not have read these stories when I was a child around 3-5 but now as a teenager I have gone back to the story’s of my childhood and learnt what I had forgotten so many years ago.
Thicccccc Thorrrrrrrrrr
Well dwarves were ugly little buggers that live underground and forged various magical things for the gods and got up to mischief, they were probably a bit more like what we think to be goblins though not necessarily green. While elves were generally invisible nature spirits, kind of like gods and one of the nine worlds belonged to them which was called Alfheim, these would be a bit like the Maiar in Lord of the Rings or what we think of as Angels (Christian influence). Freyr became the ruler of the elf realm/Alfheim or may have actually been an elf.
Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology was amazing! I'm pretty well-versed in Norse myths & was enthralled as though I was hearing them for the 1st time. One of my all time favorite authors
The best way to experience norse mythology is getting high AF and binge-reading all of stories about loki doing some kinky shit
If you ever decide to look at something else as well, would love to see slavic mythology. Might be just bad at search, but never seen it properly told in any source. Also.. Avian mermaids
The idea that reading / writing makes you educated is relatively recent.
Interesting note: While the Old Gods was replaced by the White Christ, coming with his sword of justice and army of angels to perish the giants. The belief of Alfir, dwergi, turs, jøtun, vætti, rå, etc never died out. Those beliefs has in certain parts never disappeared.
Hey jake, I like thick Thor. Also I'm writing a book on Norse Mythology and your videos have been really helpful, don't worry I'm mainly citing the Prose Edda for it but your videos do a good job of summarizing stuff. Thanks :)
Try Indian mythology next, its great.
I have a book that breaks it down by story. Also Greek but it seems to be geared into Roman terminology like Jupiter. But it makes note it’s both.