The Norse Pantheon: Crash Course World Mythology #10
This week, we're headed north. To check out the gods of the Northmen. Or the Norse. That's right, we're talking Thor, Loki, Freyr, Freya, Odin, Frigg, Baldr, and Tyr. And Fenrir. And the Frost...
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Hey there, I’m Mike Rugnetta and this is Crashcourse Mythology. Today we’re going to try to do justice to the Norse pantheon--a very scary wolf, an amazing tree, a rainbow bridge, some frost giants, and way more than what I learned from reading Thor comics. No, not you, Thoth. Your th is a plosive. We’re talking voiceless dental fricative here. THOR. You know, this joke might work better in print. [Theme Music] We met some of the Norse gods when we looked at one of their creation stories. The source for that myth, and many other stories from Norse mythology, is the Prose Edda, an Icelandic compendium written by the amazingly-named Snorri Sturluson around 1220 CE. This means that one of our main sources for the tales of Germanic and Scandinavian god...
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Hey there, I’m Mike Rugnetta and this is Crashcourse Mythology. Today we’re going to try to do justice to the Norse pantheon--a very scary wolf, an amazing tree, a rainbow bridge, some frost giants, and way more than what I learned from reading Thor comics. No, not you, Thoth. Your th is a plosive. We’re talking voiceless dental fricative here. THOR. You know, this joke might work better in print. [Theme Music] We met some of the Norse gods when we looked at one of their creation stories. The source for that myth, and many other stories from Norse mythology, is the Prose Edda, an Icelandic compendium written by the amazingly-named Snorri Sturluson around 1220 CE. This means that one of our main sources for the tales of Germanic and Scandinavian god...
