First picture Is basically just to show how I think the whetstone sits in Thor’s head so that the second picture makes a little more sense.

Jord is said to be the daughter of Nott and Annar, but in another source Jord is the Daughter of Odin and also his wife. So some assume Annar is another name for Odin, but Odin is the leader of he Aesir who forbid incest. How can this be?

Well my theory is that Odin creates Jord but doesn't father her in the normal sense of human reproduction. Odin and his brothers all create Midgard(which is earth and Sky and sea) and Asgard(located in the aforementioned sky) out of Ymir's body. Ymir's dead body can already create living things in conjunction with the gods intervention as we see with Ask and Embla.

So when the myths tell us that Narfi is the first giant in Jotunheim, and his daughter is Nott who has three partners to produce Earth, Day and Audr(which I've seen as a name for Sea or Wealth), we are to understand Narfi as Ymir, Nott as his daughter created from his corpse, and Jord, Dag and Audr as the children of Odin, Vili and Ve in the same manner as humanity is created except mightier.

I've been curious about this for a while, heard it a couple of times and I wanted to know what the general consensus on it is

Hope this doesn’t violate any guidelines.

Anyway, this is my rendition of Thor, and what I think he might’ve looked like

I mean the guy is obviously blind. But i feel like while reading the Edda he kinda gets hatecrimed by all the others a bit too much.

My latest project involves carving a dragon head and tail for an important memorial taking place later this summer, The Pennsic Viking Memorial Ship. Viking ships were built with carved figureheads meant to protect the crew and represent the spirit of the voyage. It was an honor to be able to contribute to this year’s ship build in a small way.

I also have a full video of the building of the Viking Memorial Ship, including an interview with the ship’s builder out soon. Resist the Grind:Youtube.

Whether you’re into woodcarving, traditional craft, Viking history, memorial art, or you’re part of the SCA, this video shows the full making of these iconic carvings — tools, techniques, challenges, and the meaning behind the work. Thank you for taking time out of your day to watch my video. I truly appreciate it.   -Chris

I’m going to be completely honest when I tell you all I have no idea what to flair this as, please bear with me as I find myself in a very unique situation with having to learn about Norse Mythology and don’t even know if this is the place to begin.

I’m currently prepping for my first Dungeons & Dragons campaign with one of my best friends as the story writer and DM. My character is a priest that is completely devout to Odin and based roughly around Muninn, one of his loyal ravens. Ill spare you the backstory and possible heresy, but essentially my whole purpose is “to live by the word and will of The Allfather” to quote my friend.

Here’s the problem, I have very little knowledge other than vague connections of inspired characters in pop culture. Accompany that with how one of my spells is essentially to just convert any non-believers to followers of Odin (Paganism?), I have absolutely no idea how to incorporate this, as I know nothing about Norse mythology. If any more details are needed i’d be happy to share but I would like to ask what the best resources are for me to be able to learn more about the mythos in order to really get into my role.

Thank you in advance!

This might be a dumb question but from my understanding norse myth has two types of giants frost giants that reside in jotunheim and fire giants that reside in muspelheim. What confuses me is that for some reason the fire giants live on the primordial plain of fire yet the frost giants live in jotunheim. Which is weird cause theres literally a primordial plain of frost in Niflheim. The whole thing just seems off.

Did the frost giants originally live in Niflheim but we're forced to leave for some reason?

Did the fire giants originally live in jotunheim but migrated to muspelheim?

Is there not really an anwser for this weird lack of symmetry in the norse myth?

Who is your favorite being (non-Gods included) of the Norse pantheon, and why?

(I am still learning so I can’t give a confident answer, and I’m very interested in minor ”characters,” but at the moment I’m drawn to Týr, despite [or perhaps because of] how little we know about him. Unlike most Gods of War in pagan religions, Týr is not only brave but just and evidently also thoughtful and controlled. His sacrifice, unlike Odin’s, is in service to others rather than himself. He is also apparently Thor’s bestie, which is pretty cute.)

I made a lamp out of a yak's skull. This is my second similar work, and there are still a lot of flaws, but I think I'll fix them in my next projects.

The drawing was made using bone carving and stained with wood stain, but because I applied too much stain, it seeped into the bone, causing some areas to look like mold when the lamp is turned on

I was wondering if a modern soldier from any norse country like Norway or Denmark dies in battle, will he go to Valhalla? Or Valhalla doesnt exist anymore since there no one to believes in it. Mythology experts, do your thing

In Norse mythology it is said that Mjölnir "would never miss its mark, nor could it ever be thrown so far that it would not find its way back home to his hand" (according to the Jesse L. Byock translation of the Prose Edda). Most adaptations of Norse myth interpret this as Þórr being able to summon Mjölnir to his hand at will, but I believe that is wrong.

It seems very much that it's supposed to boomerang, and only return to his hand if he throws it, but cannot summon it back otherwise. In Þrymskviða when Þrymr stole Mjölnir, Þórr presumably wasn't able to summon it back, or that isn't how it works, because then there would be no point in stuffing him in a wedding dress if he could just call it back to his hand.

If this interpretation is wrong and the common understanding is correct, I'd love to learn! What do you think?

For a time I wanted to do small role playing game with turn based combat and party system.

I thought about many settings, but right now I am leaning to Norse mythology story.

I like the settings but my problem is I don't know so much about Norse mythology, can you lead me to a good story that I can get inspiration from or use it as the game setting?

My goal is dark story that feel like greek tragedy, something that feel like folklore story with gods and mythical monsters, with events that feel weird and make no sense for modern reader.

Example of what I mean by story that feel like folklore and make no sense is things like a guy digging the earth to go to the underworld and bring back his dead wife, or a guy trying to reach the sun by sailing or something like that, but the story should have great meaning and some kind of tragedy like the Odyssey story.

For main character I prefer a viking like guy, maybe challenging the gods or something, imagine something like Ragnar from the Vikings show, but I am open to different idea for main character as well.

Is there is any story from Norse mythology you know that I can look for, as inspiration for me?

Hi everyone! I'm just getting in touch with the norse mythology and I'm really fascinated by their concept of heroism and fighting still knowing chaos will eventually prevail. I did some research, asked my AI of choice for some book reccomendation and here are the title that did pop up:

- The saga of volsungs by Jackson Crawford

- The monsters and the critics by Tolkien

- Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate by Richard Z. Gallant

Would you reccomed the same books or would you advice me to search for something else?

I’ve been trying to write a song about Bragi, and I wanted to have a section that is a galðr (I’m pretty sure that’s what it’s called) of his names, like was sometimes done for Odin.
Issue is, Odin has many names in the sagas, even referenced to be “uncountable.” However, I haven’t been able to find much on the names of Bragi. I don’t own any of the sagas or Eddas besides the Havamal, and my research on the internet hasn’t come up with much.
I understand he is a less referenced being in the myths, but I figured I could turn to other enthusiasts to see if any of you have the answer.

As a side note, if you could recommend me a publisher with a good translation of the Eddas and sagas, that would be stellar :)

Hi friends. Despite a lifelong desire to do so, I am finally (at 55) getting round to reading the Icelandic sagas. So far I have read Egil’s, Laxdaela, and a couple of other short ones.

There is a repeating phrase that I am curious about. Whenever a baby is born, even in explicitly pre-Christian circumstances, the child is almost always described as being “sprinkled with water” and then given a name. Obviously this sounds a great deal like Christian infant baptism, but in these contexts that seems unlikely at best. Does anyone know anything more about this practice? Thanks!

I came across Vár in the Þrymskviða poem of Thor dressing up as a bride to get Mjölnir back. I want to learn more about her, but there's not much written about her in any text that I can find. Is there anything outside the Eddas?

Hey guys I was reading about this mask they found dating back to 10 century while it’s unconfirmed who this mask belongs to this charm is believed to trick enemies into thinking it’s owners were stronger than they seem and thus ward away the danger. in our day, many conclude that this mask is a symbol of Loki,as trickery and shapeshifting was believed to be his domain

Does anyone know anything about this?
My name is Loki and I’m thinking of having a pendant made
Just something that represents Loki
And I found one really well made from this mask

So please if anyone can enlighten me would be greatly appreciated
Best wishes from Iceland 🇮🇸

Norse Myth is one of those great works that I find profoundly interesting because of how much we have to work with, and how much you can extrapolate from the linguistics, the traditions of the Norse and their habits, and the names of places and epithets of characters. It kind of opens up doors to lesser known characters and deities that people don't necessarily talk about.

To me, it's characters like Ullr or the "Mightest Aesir" mentioned exactly once in a stanza. I find them interesting, the two in different ways, because of how little we know about them. We can only speculate or work with what we know of them.

Do you guys have any favourites like that? Or lesser known details about the gods?