Name: The Norse Pantheon: Crash Course World Mythology #10
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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.

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 gods

and goddesses comes from the far edge of their world.

It's also important because the Prose Edda is relatively NEW.

So one rainbow bridge we're going to have to cross here is the way that later Christian

ideas influence the existing version of these myths.

Partly because of Snorri, there's a tendency to think of Norse mythology as belonging to

The Norse Pantheon has roots in the religion and mythology of Germanic people who migrated

The Romans, especially our pal Tacitus, recorded what they understood of the Germanic tribes'

beliefs, but they translated Germanic gods into their own terms.

So Wotan, or Wodan, who we're calling Odin, became associated with Mercury.

Tyr, or Tiwaz, a warrior god, became associated with the Roman god of war, Mars.

In their own terms, there are two sets of Norse deities: first, the Vanir, associated

And second, the Aesir, associated with the sky.

The Vanir were led by Freyr and Freya, brother and sister and also king and queen.

According to Sturluson: “Freyr is an exceedingly famous god; he decides when the sun shall

shine and when the rain come down, and along with that the fruitfulness of the earth,

and he is good to invoke for peace and plenty.

He also brings about the prosperity of men.”

So he is definitely the god you want to honor if you're having a picnic.

(Well, him and Amateratsu, Japanese sun goddess.

And while we're at it, why not also Aphrodite, because EVERYONE HAS A THING FOR.. ok you

get it) The Vanir and the Aesir warred, but eventually

reconciled and the Vanir came to live in Asgard, one of the nine mythical Norse worlds.

Although they also have their own realm, Vanaheim.

Not to be confused with Anaheim, the realm of Walt Disney, Oranges, and Online Video

If you want the Euhumerist opinion, or, where we take mythology as an explanation of historical

fact, this war may reflect a time where there were two competing religions among the tribal

people of the north, which eventually teamed up.

Another Norse god is Heimdall, also called the White God.

He's associated with the sea because nine waves birthed him... must have been a chaotic

Heimdall was the sentry of the gods and the archenemy of Loki, who you might know from

According to Sturluson, “[Heimdall] needs less sleep than a bird and can see a hundred

leagues in front of him as well by night as by day.

He can hear the grass growing on the earth and the wool on the sheep and everything that

Imagine going to a dinner party and listening to everyone chew.

Some traditions place Heimdall in the Aesir, some in the Vanir.

The Vanir are also associated with a golden boar said to travel above and below the earth

Gullinbursti, as it was called, appeared on warriors' crests and helmets, especially

Just like in Greece and Egypt, different gods in the Norse pantheon were worshipped in different

Thor is probably the most famous of the Aesir.

Probably the second most famous is Odin, Thor's dad.

Odin is the father god, who was associated with war, especially with the raw, almost

He was also a wizard who swayed battles through magic.

Imagine, like, Gandalf, but with one eye, lots of muscles, an unhealthy desire for arcane

Odin inherited his warrior-god nature from his Germanic predecessors, Wodan and Tiwaz.

As Kevin Crossley-Holland remarked: “A culture finds the gods it needs and the Norse world

needed a god to justify the violence that [was] one of its hallmarks.”

Basically, if you're a warlike society, a war god is pretty convenient.

Odin inspired victory and foresaw defeat with his shamanistic precognition . He was also

the god of poetry who travelled to the land of the Giants, Jotunheim, to drink the mead

of poetry and bring it back to the Aesir and Vanir.

Another part of Odin's story is his sacrifice and re-birth as a wiser god.

According to one version he hung himself from the world tree so he could drink the mead

Guess Odin couldn't stop at just one mead, huh?

This was when he sacrificed his eye, too.

Odin was married to Frigg, a goddess who could also see the future.

Odin's children were Thor, whose mother was the Earth itself, Baldr, the most beautiful

of the gods who was killed by Hodr his blind brother, and Tyr, although one source has

In some stories Baldr is a human warrior favored by Odin.

Baldr is “the wisest of the gods, and the sweetest-spoken, and the most merciful, but

it is a characteristic of his that once he has pronounced a judgment it can never be

Odin has another son, Hermod the bold, who was sent to retrieve Baldr from a city in

the underworld, Nifelheim, ruled by the goddess Hel, yup, that's Hel with a single hockey

And she was said to be a daughter of Loki, who also helped kill Baldr.

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