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Full Battle Rattle posted:The giants wanted to build a wall around Asgard. A dwarf (I think it was a dwarf in the version I heard) came to the court of Odin with his horse and offered to build the whole thing, but in exchange he wanted Odin's wife, Frigga. Odin was of two minds on this, because on the one hand, you get a sweet wall, but he tended to get really possessive of Frigga, and she'd probably be super pissed if he traded her to a dwarf. He is conflicted, until Loki tells Odin to stipulate a time limit - the dwarf would have to build the entire wall in a summer. The gods assume this to be impossible, so Frigga can stay and they'll get a sweet wall. The deal was for the sun, moon, and Freya (not Frigga). Loki was the one in trouble because he is the one who agreed the giant could maintain use of the workhorse, Svaldifari (where the horse was the one who ended up doing most of the work). Also, after the horse runs off and the "dwarf" can't get it back, he loses his temper and reveals himself as a giant, at which point the Norse gods call on Thor to kill him. Also, Odin and Loki are blood brothers; Sleipnir is not Odin's grandson, he is his nephew.
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until Odin is like "this is a totally sweet horse, and i'm gonna name it Sleipnir.' It is in this way that Odin's horse is also his grandson.
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Terrorforge posted:Isn't Snorri pretty much the only source on ancient norse mythology we have? The oldest, at any rate. Yeah, everything about Loki the Cosmic rear end in a top hat, Baldr's absurd niceness, Odin's martyrdom etc. reeks of Christianization, but we don't have any comprehensive tellings of those myths that aren't several centuries out of date. There's the Prose Edda (Snorri's), the Poetic Edda (authorship unknown), and references in the Sagas. The Prose Edda is the younger one, written sometime in the early 1200s. For many centuries, this was the only version known. They re-discovered a copy of the Poetic Edda in the 1600s, which is about a hundred years older than Snorri's, I think? We don't know who wrote it. The Prose Edda is far more readable than the Poetic Edda, which has a lot of gaps and was never meant as a complete resource. Slime posted:From what I remember, this is because norse mythology was mostly passed down orally. People just told eachother stories from mythology but didn't necessarily write it all down, and it fell out of favour when christianity arrived. There probably used to be more written down, but written records get damaged even when people are trying to look after them properly, let alone if they don't really give a poo poo. Yeah, veeeeeery limited literacy. And Snorri's version is intentionally written in a clever, roundabout way to keep it from being destroyed. Anyway, Norse literature is definitely worth reading and sometimes really funny. quote:There is one other example of flyting, this time from the Morkinskinna, the Earliest Chronicles of the Kings of Norway. In one of the žįttr, or interpolated short stories in the chronicles, the snegu-Halla žįttr, the main character Halla, a skald is confronted by King Harald, who shows him a fine knife. Harald asks if Halla has ever seen a better and then asks if Halla would become soršinn (his bitch) in order to get possession of the knife. Of course, this should outrage Halla, but he coolly replies, No, but I see no harm in you selling it the same way you bought it. Pick has a new favorite as of 14:57 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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So hey, I know I'm about a page late on this, but in light of all the cool Norse mythology chat can someone post a mythology thread?
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Anyone got that picture of Shrek and Shadow together? I managed to find it, but it lacking the text boxes.
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           Courtesy of Amales. The well goes deeper.
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The Mass Ferret thing is still one of my favorite "ridiculously weird done well" fanart series.
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Captain Invictus posted:The Mass Ferret thing is still one of my favorite "ridiculously weird done well" fanart series. Agreed. Here's something that's almost the same.   
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That only like 4 of the characters are genderswapped and Roll isn't a buff dude makes this suck  edit: HOLY gently caress RUSH 
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LoonShia posted:Agreed. Here's something that's almost the same. Really missed a great opportunity here by not making him a Mongoose
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Mongooses aren't even from the same family as ferrets. They're hugely different animals, why don't you know your mustelid facts?
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Captain Invictus posted:The Mass Ferret thing is still one of my favorite "ridiculously weird done well" fanart series. I love how Garrus's face is virtually unchanged. Also, have some 40K; it's an oldie but a goodie. 
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hubris.height posted:gonna need a source http://orkimides.deviantart.com
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Two great(?) tastes that go great(???) together
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Captain Invictus posted:Two great(?) tastes that go great(???) together SirPhoebos posted:
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Lu Bu as Red Hare as a pony, that's deep...
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Calico Heart posted:Maybe a little late to the horse-loving loki chat, but New thread title?
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Bitch please, hulk's power level is pretty much infinite cause he can just get angrier.
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He can talk, but all he can say is "omelette de fromage".
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Epoxy Bulletin posted:how bout that fanart More or less weird for not being so unique?  "Ultimate Cyborg Snow White" here comes with a story       This is apparently an actual a thing you could buy if for some reason you felt so inclined
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Senior Scarybagels posted:Bitch please, hulk's power level is pretty much infinite cause he can just get angrier. You act like no one has ever beaten The Hulk.
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 Fun fact: this picture actually got Space Coyote a job working on the Simpsons comic book.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:You act like no one has ever beaten The Hulk. The superman fight was a joke
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