Nordic Heathenry A/T: My date was a huge antropomorphic moth, as is custom

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Ataxerxes: Dec 2, 2011; What is a soldier but a miserable pile of eaten cats and strange language?

Tias posted:

I think I've mentioned it before, but like most Danes my first real love of old norse culture and myth came with Peter Larsen's Valhalla comics. I don't know if they were ever translated, but if so I ever so highly recommend them to anyone, even those not interested in anything but good comics.

At least some of these were translated into Finnish. And yes, they are great. The one where Thor and some others pretend to be mortal heroes, "Odin makes a bet" or something like that.

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Ataxerxes: Dec 2, 2011; What is a soldier but a miserable pile of eaten cats and strange language?

Tias posted:

My all-time favorite moment in that series!

"No thanks, they gave me a better offer - there I get to play the harp!"

Yeah, and the Conan-lookalike that makes Odin go "nope, that dude looks too dangerous and independent".

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Ataxerxes: Dec 2, 2011; What is a soldier but a miserable pile of eaten cats and strange language?

Tias posted:

Jǫtnar / Jotunn / Frost Giants - Evil demons or part of the family?
The name Jotunn comes from the proto-germanic *etunaz and means "devourer". The Old English e�ten is a cognate (it means the same thing and comes from the same Proto-Germanic word). �urs, or Thurse, another name for giant-like creatures, is derived from the Proto-Germanic *�urisaz and means something like �powerful and injurious one� with a secondary connotation of �thorn-like.� The Old English �yrs and Old High German duris are cognates.

Turisas is also a being in Finnish pagan folklore, mentioned in 1551 by a priest called Mikael Agricola. He wrote a list of pagan deities worshipped by Finns and mentions Turisas being a god that gives victory in wars. In an another book from 1789 an another writer lists Turisas in Mythologica Fennica, a book about Finnish pagan faith and superstitions. That book is very much full of all sorts of dubious stuff, but very interesting.

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