Scandinavian mythology thread.

So many interesting thread topics yet so feel answers.

What I find remarkable about the Germanic and Scandinavian mythology is that it's theogony is similar to that of Hesiod. In Hesiod in the beginning there was chaos, and in the Norse version in the beginning there was the ginnungagap, a magic-filled void. Then after this the chaos or void is polarized giving rise to two opposing forces, light x darkness (Hesiod) or fire x ice (Norse), and out of this conflict the gods and the entire universe were formed. What is interesting moreover is that the German mystic Jacob Boehme, a similar shoe maker, had a similar vision about the eternal "birth" of the Christian trinity. Perhaps it was his atavistic Germanic soul that spoke to him, enabling him to see the same vision that his Germanic and Scandinavian forebears saw in a mystical trance, which he interpreted in his cultural context which was Lutheran and Christian? But that is a subject for another thread

>>17666651
A simple* shoe maker

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>>17666651
>interesting thread topics yet so feel answers.

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>>17666845
>that viking about to get a pitchfork to the jugular for murdering that farmer's confessor

have a bump

Can someone tell me about the norse look on afterlife?
I know the "all women and men who dont die in battle goes to hel" is bullshit but im not quite sure what the precise view was

>>17667351

Loki's daughter would like to have a word with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_%28being%29

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>>17667370

>>17667370
cut it out
I know what im talking about

>>17666571
Were Scandinavians white at one point?

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>>17667532
>Were Scandinavians white at one point?

They didn't have points, the whole horned hat thing is a myth.

>>17667532
Scandinavia has always been Arab and Muslim. Islam is integral to Scandinavia. Don't pay attention to white supremacists trying to white-wash history.

>>17668219
YES
ESY
SYE

>>17667532
>not r1b
>white

No, never actually.

>>17667532
Looks like someone got /pol/ and x mixed up.

Can anyone remember some good metaphors from the norse stories?
only i can come up with is that when Odin left his tribe to wander through the lands, his two brothers Vili and Ve (whose names can be translated as despair, frustration, sadness or something akin) slept with his wife

>>17666651
Thinking that our world is order, and that there was something before our world, meaning that whatever was before was chaos, is not such a rare thought though
and same goes for the thing about opposing forces coming from this, though it's a little more of a stretch i guess

>>17667351
half of people died in battle are taken to Valhal, the other half are taken to another area in asgard
those who did not are taken to hel, some are even placed in specific parts of hel because of how they lived, like being murderers or traitors
This is probably influenced by the christian view, but that's the way it is written