Yggdrasil - Nine Worlds of the Norse - Extra Mythology
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Everything, from the giants' home of Jotunheim, to the primeval Vanaheim, to the mortal realm of Midgard, is connected by the tree named Yggdrasil, life to all nine worlds of Norse peoples.
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Nine worlds the world tree touches. Nine worlds for the races of gods and men and monsters. The tree is named Yggdrasil. Today's Extra Mythology is brought to you by God of War! bit.ly/2FBqVPH
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Extra Credits talk about the dragons of the Norse mythology
It still feels odd to hear the -heim suffix pronounced this way.
Talk about Egyptian mythology.
So this explains the plot to dragon quest 9
Headcanon: before Odin went to Mimir's well, he was named Odiin
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This needs more likes
pure gold right here
@@spookysquirtle like the roof of that bridge
@@singleshot9968 like midas's food
Bifrost, The inspiration of rainbow road and cause of broken friendships
I wonder why they simply made it a rainbow though
Chris East Maybe because rainbows look like they rise from Earth towards the heavens?
o/` Why are there so many
songs about rainbows,
and what's on the oooother siiiide...
Tzisorey Tigerwuf rainbows are visions
But also illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
It's called a road, it's called a Rainbow Road
It is a road that you go
It's called a road, it's called a Rainbow Road
And you will know when you get there
It's called a road, it's called a Rainbow Road
It is a road that you go
It's a road that you go when you die
I love how much Freya enjoys riding her cat chariot.
King Alfred Who wouldn't, though? (Well, exept a cat hater or someone allergic to cats, I guess...)
I would too
Wait Alfred didn’t you fight the warriors who believe this
"Boi!" is heard from the distance
Ukr
*B O I*
TO ME!
I literally watch this to understood the game better
Watch your tone, B O Y.
1:04 "The great raibow bridge that connects the realm of men and the realm of Gods..."
I agree, if you finish that Mario Kart's course without falling a single time, you are no longer in the realm of men.
A wooden bridge with a solid gold roof? That's just bad engineering.
The roof looks more solid than the floor.
Graham Scheaffer thats the problem ^^gold is VERY heavy
Must be why Helheim's a pain to get out of. The bridge is out. *grin*
Maybe it was gold coated?
Or Mansa Musa ordered that bridge
As an Icelander I just love hearing the pronunciations, which are really quite good compared to other english speakers.
1. Thank you, thank you, thank you for pronouncing Hel as hell instead of hella. That alone almost ruined Thor: Ragnarok for me.
2. Please, by Odin's beard, please don't say bi-frost as if the bridge has frozen twice. It's split bif-röst.
EDIT addition: You pronounce heim correctly yay! :D
kiddinn95 oh my god finally someone else who was miffed besides me that they called hell hella
It's a movie based on a comic-book created by people on acid in the 60s, It's a fun film, not an elocution lesson.
This is one of the few cases where modern English pronunciation is the correct one. The word heim, meaning home, comes from the proto-germanic haimaz, and the Norse would have pronounced it "high-m" not "hey-m". That is correct pronunciation for modern Icelandic, not Norse. The Marvel movies get it right.
It's _Yggdrasil_ , not _Iggdrasil_ . It's _Bifrost_ , not _Bayfrost_ . But yeah, for an english speaker, he's not the worst.
Heim is NOT pronounced correctly in terms of English.
Seems like Tolkein borrowed much from Norse myths.
Yes he did. He was an enthusiast when it came to Germanic and Norse mythologies, and the shared love of mythos brought him together with C.S. Lewis.
He sure did. In fact, you know what Midgard literally translates to? "Middle-Earth." ;)
Jacob Behnke Gasp!
I suggest watching/reading the der ring des nibelungen, by Richard wagner, it is an awesome story that has a lot of similarities with Tolkien as well. It is inspired on norse mithology and seems that Tolkien was inspired by it as well.
Don't mind me just Haydn in the comments thanks for the suggestion!
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As an Icelander who has read most of the old sagas (in the original language) and loves norse mythology I have to say that this is a fairly accurate accounting. I love it!
Thanks EC for doing a little bit of work undoing what Marvel has made of our history :)
Wait, there are people who believe that Marvel's version of Norse mythology is the actual Norse mythology? They are two distinct stories.
You are entierly right. I'm from norway btw! (love you Iceland)
I'm by no means an expert in norse mythology, but I've always found funny how many people take the Marvel version as true. Sure, it's heavily inspired, but c'mon...
As a German I can relate in this regard to Grimms Fairy Tales. I grew up with those stories and later searched for the oldest versions I could find but all people seem think about are the Disney Versions.
Dane here, I even learned a little, cause I have not dug into most old accounts. In many, even fairly true to the source accounts there is no distinction between the beings of frost and fire.
Oh and *Nicht-Registrierter Nutzer* I feel ya, Disneys little mermaid is an abomination
4:20 when you miss leg day
*Nice*
Nice
4:20 nice
*when you're high and missed leg day*
1: Asgard, 2: Alfheim, 3: Muspelheim, 4: Niflheim, 5: Helhiem, 6: Nidavellir, 7: Jötunheim, 8: Midgard, 9: Vanaheim.
Hero: Thor, Snake: Jormungandr.
Jormugandr as world serpent
Hero: Thor
Villain: Jörmungandr
Hotel: trivago
Hero : Kratos
Villain : Thor
Loki : BOY!!!!
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Jormungandr: Grandboi
A quick note, that may be lost in translation. The word "giants" is a weird translation, because the scandinavian words like Jætte or Jötun doesn't mean giants in that language. In truth the giants were not all,... well gigantic. Most were in fact the size of humans and are more alike to the orcs of middle-earth.
EDIT:
I want to mention @KendrixTermina who pointed something interesting out that I didn't know. I'll just quote him and be sure to give him a thumbs-up down in the thread:
AFAIK It was a translation by a 19th century playwright who wanted to Allude to the ancient greek Gigantes, as in "Our stories are cool too!"
IMHO "Titans" would have been a more apt equivalent, with how they're remnants of the primordial chaos that are fought by the younger gods who deserve representation and around a similar power level as those
Interesting! I've been doing research for a game design project using Norse Mythos, Lore, and Religion. Where do you get your sources - I'd love to add them to our lore sheet.
I assume any danish book about norse mythology would do. These norse stories are part of our culture, and I grew up with them at home and in school. I don't really own books on norse mythology, other than my Valhalla comic books which are danish comics which retold norse legends in a more child-friendly way.
And also... I'm strictly speaking about the giants from jotunheim (udgård), which are the plain used most time in in the legends other than Midgård and Asgård. The beings in Muspelheim and Niflheim are absolutely giant beings.
But I guess valhalla by Peter Madsen and Hans Rancke is a pretty good place to see a more correct graphical intepretation of the source material. They are very well regarded by both comic book fans and viking experts.
Same thing goes for Dwarves. Some scholars believe that references to them being "small" actually meant "lesser", as in to indicate that they were somewhere between mankind and the gods...kind of like angels, fairies, or elves. It's possible that Christianization brought about the incorrect translation that Dwarves were physically small.
Could be possible since most of the Norse myths were properly written down until after most of Scandinavian converted to Christianity.
Unlikely, since multiple retellings of the myths describe the jætters as such, which are unrelated to each-other. That would mean that multiple christian accounts without being in contact created the same fabrication. That might be plausible if it was specifically a fabrication that would make christianity look better, but the size of some of their monsters serves little purpose to fabricate.
If the Mythology videos continue to be a thing, I hope the Egyptian pantheon is explored. They seem really interesting, but Greek and Norse mythos tend to get most of the love. (Yeah, I know this one was sponsored- I just mean in general. :) )
Most things Extra Credits does are 'tip of the iceberg' anyway. I just figure it'd be a neat avenue to explore, even if only that much.
I hope if he goes into Greek mythology that they will also talk about Hades and how he's such a misunderstood God, that people always assume he is their version of the devil and that the underworld is hell.
Oh, legit. Clearing Hades' name is a noble endeavor. I mean, he's like the Death Tarot Card of the Greek pantheon.
I'm pushing for Aztec. It's like the Cthulhu mythos, but weirder.
I'm personally hoping for Mesopotamian mythology. There are few videos going into it, and most tell the same story of how the gods killed their father, who intended on killing them, and their mother Tiamat was angered and created beasts and monsters to kill them. Afraid, the gods tried to defeat her but always failed. Finally the god Marduk appeared, with his magic, and told them that he would slay her as long as they made him king. And so they agreed, and went with his net and trapped Tiamat and killed her. And every night, the battle between Marduk and Tiamat begins again, and every morning we awake to a world of peace and... you know, not hellish demons and devilish monsters, it means Marduk won.
But are there no more stories of the gods of the first civilization? Did Marduk claim no more feats?
But Egyptian mythology would also be nice, as long as it wasn't only just the telling of Set(h) and Osiris and Horus, and we got to learn about more gods, and more stories.
Greek is overdone for me, personally. There are few stories I do not know, like Jason and the Argonauts, but all the popular stories are nearly memorized as with many of the lesser known ones.
Aztec would be good. I agree. I know actually nothing about Aztec other than Quetzalcoatl and Tetzatlipoca. And even then I know just about their names.
Sometimes I wish I was going into archaeology rather than being a tattoo artist...
I'm genuinely curious, is it a bad thing in norse myth to be undefeated in battle? Would someone who could never be slain, who fought to their last breathe but was taken by age rather than someone else still go to hel?
WandererOfCorruption I’m no expert, but I’d guess Norse might have simply lacked a concept of that. Retirement wasn’t really a thing in medieval societies and I’m wondering, if you were frail, would the Norse even let you retire. If you didn’t, you’d be easy pickings for a new, young upstart with the energy to outmatch your skill. That’s just an idea from a guy whose knowledge of Viking life comes from CK2 and some light reading here and there.
Those who die from sickness are usually said to go to hel, and old age kills you by organ failures so... I'm not sure how the Vikings viewed people dying from old age but I assume older people would want to doe in battle so they can go to Valhalla.
The medieval evidence is... uncertain. However, based on the accounts in texts like Egils saga, a death of natural causes was 1) not that rare and 2) not that problematic. For example, Kveld-Ulf died while sailing to Iceland, but was said to go to Valhalla.
That being said, natural death doesn't happen in the legendary sagas, and we don't have any genuine literature from the Viking Age to answer it for sure.
Alex, retirement wasn't a thing because Scandinavia was almost entirely subsistence farming. So, someone could (and very often did) retire from the day-to-day duties of running a farm, but still be active in the public sphere until they died.
Sometimes, old men who were about to die of old age or an uncureable sickness demanded to kill them with a spear and therefore to " Choose him for Odin". Since there was only one way to get to Valhalla, which was by being killed by a weapon in battle, many hoped that only the death by a weapon was really necessary to go to Valhalla. They hoped to flee the destiny of resting in Helheim by allowing their own murder to "manipulate" their death.
Remember in Skyrim the old orc looking for a "good death"? I'd guess he would go to Hel, yea.
That strange moment when you realize ancient Pantheon lore is actually pretty damn short and digestible (if whacky) compared to much contemporary fantasy fiction franchise lore
You can fathom the broad strokes, key points, and players of Norse mythology in a day or two with the right references and lectures
Try doing that with 40k, GoT, or Tolkien canon. You could do a semester of studies in each subject and still be dubious in your mastery of the material afterwards
No, not really.
Norse Mythology is like an anthology. A bunch of self-contained stories featuring the same reoccurring characters.
These two videos just explain the setting.
I would like to see you do a mythology episode on Irish culture
Cu Chulainn, Scathach, Fionn Mac Cumhail aka Finn MacCoul and his vassal Diarmuid ua Duibhne. Very interesting.
If they do that they BETTER as hell get me on the team. I research that shit *for fun* and would have waaaay too much fun helping them with it.
Check out Tale Foundry. They're a youtube channel that has done this pretty well.
RANCER GA SHINDA!!!
Until they do, check out tales foundry and overly sarcastic productions channels as they've already done some videos on that
Bad Dan, how could you forget about Ratatoskr ? How can one have a multiverse supported by an ash tree without a giant red squirrel to gnaw at it ?
This episode was mainly about the worlds, only briefly touching on the beings that inhabit them. I'm sure they'll cover Nidhoggr, Ratatoskr, Sleipnir, and all the other fascinating monsters in a later video.
danime91 I hope they also cover the story of how Loki had the magic items forged and the legend of Siegfried. I would also like this to lead to a series examining Tolkien and his approach to worldbuilding and storytelling.
Ratatoskr, the scourge of Lore Lady. (Gotta love Smite's portrayal of him).
Yes, yes, we've all played Smite...
Ratatoskr does not gnaw at the roots, the dragon Nihdhogg gnaws the roots. Ratatoskr trades insults from the great eagle at the top of the tree to the dragon gnawing at the roots and vice versa.
I'm born and live in Sweden this was part of my school growing up, thanks for refreshing the tales and bringing back memories.
what exactly do you learn in Swedish school
Magnus Bekkengen i’m also swedish 👍
its gonna be awesome when the GOW sequal gets to Raganrok
Prophetz Of The Sound The fight between Kratos and Thor is probably going to be iconic for decades to come. There's no way that the developers aren't going to go balls deep and have some amount of extradimensional destruction in the fight.
And then there's the 10th realm Anaheim. Ruled by Disney and home to $12 pickles and $8 churros. (I know, not terribly original, but I'll take my digs where I can find them.)
My favorite part of Yggdrasil myth are the animals. Nidhogg is the serpent/dragon gnawing at its roots, but there is an eagle that perches at the topmost branches and a squirrel that ferries insults between the two. Oddly enough neither are Vikings fans. The bird is clearly an Eagles fan. But the dragon prefers the Raiders. What's up with that?
you forgot the hawk veorfolnir that finishes off that group of old norse animal deity
The squirell is called ratatosk
1:27 Happy Freyja and her happy racing cats made my day. Thank you EC!
3:55 I've never heard of a more famous hammer.
"Today we're going to be learning about Yggdrasil!"
the people who played as night elves in WoW:
For Teldrassil.....
I literally got a tattoo of Yggdrasil yesterday.
MandaloretheSavage Holy crap who'd you get it from??
Naomi Hart from cream city tattoos in St Cloud Minnesota.
I find it odd that you mentioned that Tolkein drew from the Light Elves to make his Elves, but you didn't say the same of the Nidavellir and the Dwarves. Especially in the Hobbit, where some of the enemies that the Dwarves encounter are based on Dwarves from Norse Myth. The Poetic Edda has a poem called Alvíssmál featuring a Dwarf who turns to stone when exposed to sunlight, and when Thorin's company is captured by trolls, they escape by shining sunlight on them to turn them to stone. Smaug was based directly on Fafnir; the "Dragons have hoards of gold" trope actually came from the "Dwarves are greedy" trope.
The Poetic Edda also contains a segment called Dvergatal, which means Names of Dwarves. Six entire stanzas just naming dwarves. Tolkein used a lot of these names for his own Dwarves: Durin, Dvalin, Nar, Nain, Dain, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Nori, Dori, Ori, Thorin, Thrain, Thror, Fili, Kili, Fundin, Nali, Hannar, Frar, Loni, Dwalin, Lofar, and Gloin. Dvergatal also includes Yngvi, which Tolkein ironically used as the name of an Elf, and Gandalf. Yes, according to Norse Myth, "Gandalf" is a Dwarvish name.
pocketlint60 lol gran-dalf looks more like Grant-elf
I thought it was pretty obvious with all of that middle-realms and greedy dragons that it was all inspired by norse mythology
Mmm, if I'm not mistaken Gandalf is actually one of Odin's pseudonyms, not a Dwarven name. In any case, Gandalf is pretty much Odin in his travelling disguise, pointy hat and all.
@@minnumseerrund I think Tom Bombadil is Odin. Because Gandalf is a maia, he is not a god. Not even near. Eru is the god, Valar are the near to god beings and Maiar are their servants. No one knows who Tom is, where he came from or his powers.
pocketlint60 lol. Oh yeah Smaug was a retelling of Fafnir right down to how he was woken up- something was stolen from his hoard- a cup.
Nice, however you missed one thing, baldur ( i assume that is how you say that in english) got stuck in Hel because loki, transformed as an animal, refused to cry for baldur, because baldur would get out of hel if every single being cryed for him.
For those wondering, the other most common interpretation of 9 realms that I've heard has 8 of the same realms, but instead of Helheim (which, in this interpretation, is just a part of Niflheim, much as Valhalla is a part of Asgard and Folkvangr is part of Vanaheim), there's Svartalfheim, land of the Dark/Black elves, who...are basically just the antithesis of the Light Elves of Alfheim. I prefer the Helheim version, myself, since it just makes more sense to me, though, I just think this is a neat bit of trivia.
There's also some versions that have the Dwarves and Dark Elves as the same people.
Love Extra Mythology
I love Norse mythology for the reason that all of the Gods are predicted to die. They are not immortal beings who will live without long term consequences forever, they will one day die like mortals.
99% of everyone who fight against the end of the everything including time will die. I heard that Thor is to have two kids who oddly enough will live.
Norse mythology: *exists *
random 12 episode isekai anime: ITS FREE REAL ESTATE
*any mythology
TNTimothy Roditi yes but norse is the most common referenced in anime
@@4n4rch1st7 in SMT and Persona games some of the best demons are from Norse mythology. Odin is the best able to kill bosses in one hit
I want a cat chariot
anyone who sees this video or knows about that cat chariot does
Me too
I want a dog chariot
(Love ur profile btw)
*W E*
please keep doing these! I, for one, f**king LOVE mythology
Oh, so that's where Fafnir the Dragon comes from! Neat. :D
when you become so greedy that you are cursed to open every single mimic chest
thenorsegods.com/otters-ransom/ Just gonna leave this here...it tell’s the whole story of Fafnir and his family.
No one escapes from Hel
Kratos: Hold my axe.
Super excited to see this in my feed! I love mythology, and I love your styles of videos!
Man I love this series! I've always liked mythology from very different cultures, but I never had it explained in such a simple yet efficient way. I really love your work. Hope there are more mythologies in future videos :)
Specifically Jotunheim isnt just the home of giants, but of the jotun as a whole; they're an extremely varied monster race, where most of them might look like giants or trolls, but jormungandr and fenrir are also jotun for example.
Really? Interesting. I know that Jormungandr, Fenrir, and Hel are all Children of Loki with the Jotun "Angrboða" (ð = basically 'th')
Yeah they come in all shapes an sizes. One of them is just a shadow on a wall
Ooh! Sources please!
Most of my knowledge is from orally passed down stories, which is a thing we still do here in the north, so i wouldnt know where to exactly to point you towards. I think the shadow is from the same story where Thor tries to race against the physical manifestation of time, and outdrink the physical manifestation of thirst, so that's atleast a starting point. Those guys are also Juton by the way
Freakymoejoe: Nerd correction. He was trying to drink the ocean through the magical horn. In it Loki also tried to beat fire in a eating contest.
It's the tale of Utgarda-Loki.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Atgar%C3%B0a-Loki
I love what you're doing with the channel. History and mythology are fun.
Please keep videos like this going
Nice vid!!!! More! This ties in with a previous video. I learned a lot about Yggdrasil from FFVII and Xenogears. The names of the realms are littered throughout that game, and researching the mythology gave me insight into both games!
I guess we won't expect Thor to die in endgame then.
Do some more of this! We need more Myth Channels out there!
These episodes are the best!! Can we keep it?
In my eyes this guy mis pronounced a lot of names and places compared to how I understood them, but then again a lot of people pronounce things differently so not holding it agenst him. Informative none the less.
I freaking love this mythology series. Please keep it going!!!
Very well narrated! That's the best part IMO
So is Svartalfheim the same place as Nidavellir and are the dwarves and dark elves the same folk?
That's what I was thinking too. I've been doing research into Norse Lore and Mythos for a game design project, and noticed that SvartAlfsHeim is "Dark Elf Home", but the "Dark Elves" are also referenced as "svartálfar", or "Dark/Black Elf", and are the antithesis to the Alfs in Alfheim. In our lore/story, we'll be referencing both Nidavellir and Scartalfsheim.
The places generally seem to be regarded as the same, as to whether dark elves and dwarves are the same is Norse mythology is a bit up for debate - the term Dokalf appears as well in contrast to Svartalf, suggesting that some of the old Norse may have believed that dark elves were a separate thing to swart elves, the swart elves being dwarves in this case.
"Svart" is a translation of "Dark", as far as I've seen. SvartAlf is literally "Dark/Black Elf".
"Svart" means black.
"Dokk" means dark.
"Blá" means blue, but can also mean black, because old norse kinda saw black and dark blue as the same thing. Hence why they called Black Africans "Blue men".
And the whole idea of "dark elves" being dark-skinned elves is a D&D invention. Norse mythology never really says much about skin color of these magical races. And in fact, the border between them is a bit fluid. The mythology was oral, so it wasn't quite set in stone.
Basicly we know that dark elves and dwarves had separated in the 18th century with Fantasy genera and that they started as the same long before the viking age. During these two points it was a split, somebody thinks the split was coming during in the viking age and someone that it was coming with the folklore as late as the 17th century.
Id like to imagine that mythologies represent some lost knowledge or ancient events of the real world that peoples of that time struggled to interpret or retell in a comprehensible way, thus a starship/submarine becomes a boar that rides the skies and waters... somewhat like BMOs retelling of events, highly subjectively interpreted.
Thanks so much for making this video, I was just thinking about this the other day!!
Great series, can't wait for the rest
0:00Ygdrasil
0:49 Asgard - Home of the Aesir (gods)
1:40 Alfheim - Land of the Lightelves
1:55 Muspelheim - First of the created worlds, and of fire and heat
2:30 Niflheim - Second of the created worlds, land of snow and mist
2:55 Helheim - Land of the dead
3:39 Nidavellir - realm of dwarves
4:15 Jotunheim - the giant's home
5:19 Midgard - the mortal realm of humans
Wait a minute I only count 8 worlds… besides Yggdrasil the actual tree
Man forgot Vanaheim.
3:56 "Mjoelnir, perhaps the most famous hammer of them all"
Well, other than MC Hammer.
~STOP!
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO MAN!!
More extra mythology please, it‘s awesome
I like how “scholars” are “debating” this.
I thought Mimir lost his head...
He does after letting odin drink I guess
He did,just... Later
Norse mythology is my favourite ancient mythology
I've been so excited for this!
Huh, I never realized how much Nintendo games refer to Norse mythology until now
SmashAttack64 This is Norse mythology. :)
Fitzgerald You're right lmao. Big mistake on my part. Guess I'll fix that statement :P
Im getting dragon quest vibes.....any one remember praying to Yggdrasil in ix? (9)
Mystic Yes!
Norse mythology is very popular in games, anime, and manga in Japan. Oddly the Thor movies don't seem that popular over there.
4:09 *I watch a heck ton of anime, and this character reminds me of Dragon Maid.*
The art is incredible in this episode
Hello! I really love your videos! I've seen all of your history vids and most of the others. Keep up the great content!
Will u be covering Ragnarok??
Oh, I think he shoud!
More like Bore: Ragnarok
Animootions Man I hope
@Your average Commentator Movie didn't do it justice.
Your average Commentator looool god damn it kevin
Y'know, I've long since learned the more common pronunciation for Yggdrasil, but my brain always thinks of Tales of Symphonia's way.
Ditto
So excited for this!
Just as good as extra history, love to see more
the elves making beautiful objects is a unified aspect of "breaking through" or getting high on DMT. People take the drug (it is also naturally produced in your brain) independently and many report the seeing the same thing
How conveniant...Im exactly learning about norse mythology in school
I definitely wanna see more!
Amazing job on accuracy.
This time on extra mythology: impossible pronunciations everywhere
It would be interesting of you make something about Slavic mythology. Mostly because it is not talked about a lot and it's mostly unknown.
Slavs are Eastern European people who share the origin of the Slavic tribes (Polish, Czech, Slovaks, Russians, Ukrainian, Belarus, Croats, Serbs, Bulgarians, etc.)
From it came the many creatures in Polish Witcher franchise. (like Bies, Bies comes from a word meaning Anger)
From it came the Vampires we know today (Serb named Sava Savanović)
It doesn't really have a lot of stories about the action. But it rather explains how everything in the universe works. Every single illness is represented as a spirit. Many emotions, natural events, etc.
And they can be very weird and creative like the Baba Yaga (an illness) (An old woman riding a flying pot collecting people, she lives in a big house with giant chicken legs in a forest)
Wonderful. Love it!
Nice job on this! This was a good summary/intro to the Ásatrú worldview. I like your artwork, too. You chose your own interpretations of the Norse gods, which is very creative. They are different from the common view but I like the creativity. For example, it is typical to show Freyr and Freyja with blond hair but I really like that you made them with red or perhaps reddish-brown hair. It is different but I think it works really well- maybe showing the connection to the color of the fertile soil of Earth since the Vanir were nature gods. I like, too, that Freyja's cats are tabbies. I like your view of Loki with gray hair, too. The gray hair maybe shows a connection with Odin since Odin and Loki were blood brothers and friends who later became enemies, so maybe older, timeless gods from a similar generation. It's interesting that the same time I am watching this I am reading Nancy Marie Brown's "Song of the Vikings." It is about Snorri Sturluson, the Icelander whose writings preserved many aspects about Norse mythology, and it is thanks to him we have learned much of the Old Norse worldview. It's a great book to read since it covers Norse mythology but also covers a really interesting (and chaotic) time in Iceland's history, and Snorri Sturluson was a pretty amazing and controversial guy in the Norse world.
This low-key reminds me of my culture, Navajo Mythology.
I’ve loved this channel but I have one question that’s driving me insane....WHY THE EFFECT ON DANIELS VOICE? It’s driving me nuts because it’s just barely there, but there enough to notice
More episodes plz!
I LOVE THIS SERIES!!! Please keep doing Norse mythology!!
1:42 "It's Alf-HAAAAAAIIIM."
Holy crap Tolkin borrowed a lot from these myths!
He did indeed. One translation of Midgard is Middle Earth, and much of the Lord of the Rings was directly inspired by the Ring Cycle.
Also the Mcu
I absolutely love this series
THIS is the kind of sponsored content i like. Actual educational value, with a little tie in to a product. totally cool with that.
Me: plays god of war
Also me: no, you’re wrong gow is write
Roots of Yggdrasil = Origin of Titans
Yggdrasil Tree = The coordinate
Nine Worlds = Nine Titans
Ragnarök = The Rumbling
Isayama mindf*cking since 2009
Take in how Odin had to "pledge an eye" to drink from the well in Yggdrasil
When I first saw the title, I thought it was going to be about Overlord. But this interested me way more than an episode on an anime ever will. Good job guys!
More of these pleasee
3:42 That beard.
3:38 incorrect. Baldur would’ve been rescued had Hela received everyone’s approval and missing of him. But one giant did not care so he wasn’t rescued.
And that giantess was loki
Has there always been an extra mythology? I had this exact this for this channel.
it's always hard to find books on Yggdrasil!!! This vids great. Ya'll should do more myths.
You know, you’d expect Dragon City to sponsor them since they added the dragon “Yggdrasil”
You guys want to hear something that is really weird. My name is “Noah York” which translates directly
“The Rest and Comforting” (of the “burdened” one).
“The Yew Tree” (The Rugged Elms of Night... ) The Tree of both the ocean of the dead and living... or more appropriately “Yggdrasil The World Tree”
WTF??!!
xNOMADx huh
I like how this was presented.
Good job. I remember learning all of this in school, so this was a good refreshment. from norway
My god thor 3 is gunna be awesome
In 4:19 u can see patrick as a mountain
Lmao good eye, mate
This is a very well done video as I read and indulge in Norse mythology this is very accurate and I learned some new things!
DO MORE!! DO MORE!! Extra Mythology please