When Ragnarok comes knocking, Heimdall’s job is to blow real hard on his horn so everyone knows. He stands at the end of a fabulous rainbow bridge, ever watchful in case of Ragnarok (read: the apocalypse). ![]() They order Loki to fix the problem, which he apparently took to mean “have sex with a horse.” Heimdall Except it turns out the horse (named Svaðilfari) is a super-horse, so the work goes super-quickly and the gods get super-mad. The gods set an unrealistic deadline in the hopes that the builder would fail and the work would free, but Loki convinced them to allow the builder to use his horse. The story here is that someone had agreed to build a fortified settlement for the gods in exchange for Freyja, the sun, and the moon. But my money’s on neither, because when you’re translating things across a thousand years of languages and cultures, meanings get kind of screwy. Wikipedia says her name is old norse for “Victorious Girl-friend,” which could be literal, in that Loki put a ring on it, or it could be ironic, in that she wound up tending to him in prison for the rest of eternity. His wife Sygin (not pictured) was loyal enough to stay with him, and block what venom she could with a bowl. I don’t know who cast Tom Hiddleston in the part, but knowing what I know now I might have gone with Danny Devito.Įventually Loki managed to piss everyone off enough that they chained him up in a cave where venom drips onto his face forever. There’s one skaldic poem that is literally just pages of Loki barging into a feast and insulting everyone. He steals, complains, kidnaps, kills, and at one point shaves Sif’s head. Basically every story about him has him being a huge jerk for no reason, getting in trouble, and then (maybe) fixing things. When I started researching for this, I assumed Loki was some machiavellian schemer, or at least a clever jokester. Lokiįinally, someone we do know something about. Not much to her other than her name means something like “grief-bringer” and she and Loki made some horrible monster babies. I’m thinking maybe it’s the seafaring viking god version of how distant northern tribesmen have, what, fifty words for “snow?” Although I’ve also been told that’s a racist myth, so who knows. These are all sort of spirits of the waves, or specific aspects of the ocean – shine, transparency, etc. Himinglaeva, Dufa, Blodughadda, Hefring, Udr, Hronn, Bylgja, Drofn, and Kolga Sometimes they throw parties for other gods. Aegir’s in charge of friendly, bountiful seas, and Rán is in charge of seas that drown sailors. Seriously, at one point Loki’s referred to as “son of Fárbauti and Laufey or Nál.” Aegir and RánĪegir and Ran were sea giants who live beneath the ocean with their nine daughters. She’s only mentioned in relation to her son Loki, and even that’s not always clear. Based only on that, I’m guessing he was a jerk. In this case, we know that his name means something like “dangerous striker,” he’s married to Laufey, and together they produced Loki. Here’s the first of many deities about whom we know basically nothing. At some point, Odin and his brothers killed Ymir and made the cosmos out of his corpse. ![]() Pre-Christian European societies weren’t big on organizing/rationalizing their pantheons. It seems like everyone descended form him, to the extent that we can be sure that anyone descended from anyone. ![]() ![]() YmirĪccording to Norse myth, Ymir was the first being to form within the primeval chaos that preceded everything. NOW onto the individual descriptions of all those gods up there. Jotnar (singular Jotünn): usually translated as “giants” but probably closer to “devourers.” If the Aesir represent order and civilization, the Jotnar are primordial chaos and destruction. Vanir: also the gods, but from a different tribe. No, wait, first, some classifications (or as close to classifications as medieval Norsemen got)” Now, onto the individual descriptions of all those gods up there. But since the choice was use Snorri or leave half of these descriptions blank, I went with Snorri. The most comprehensive primary source, written by Snorri Sturluson, is the least reliable by far, because it’s partly true but badly cited, and partly made up, and we can’t be really sure which is which. And also a very inconsistent family – a lot of these relations are vaguely defined at best, and in some cases different sources directly contradict each other. I realize this is a weird way to lay out a family tree. it says Abby gets herself into a situation but take no notice of that.UPDATE : I made a poster version! Check it out! I was 14 when I wrote this.you have been warned :') My 14 year old summary :') "Primeval, Connor get's Abby into a tricky situation and stephen has to rescue her. Gimli92 Fandoms: Primeval, Primeval: New World
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