the prose edda tales from norse mythology

Snorri aborde donc de biais ce panorama du polythéisme scandinave. Snorri Sturluson rédigea cette Edda (ces vieilles légendes norroises) au début du XIIIe siècle, alors que son pays, l’Islande, était depuis longtemps convertie au christianisme. It's not every day that you get to learn about the spiritual connection between hip-hop and Vikings. I'm just saying there's sortof a kinship there. That would be an awesome thing to say, but not a reasonable one. I'm not saying that rappers were influenced by Vikings. Here, Swayze refers to the late actor's classic movie Ghost, and ghost means he's gone so Dres is saying that he's leaving your mama. Plus, see I got to tell your mama that I’m Swayze I try to stay aware of the drama, it’s crazy

That's cool because it's exactly what rappers do! Here's an example from the mighty Dres of Black Sheep: For instance, 'spurner of the bonfires of the sea,' where 'bonfires of the sea' refers to the sun's reflection off it, which is golden, and a spurner of gold would be: a generous man.

I enjoyed learning about the Norse poetic style of 'kenning,' where the point is to pile image upon image to make a complicated chain of meaning. There's no mention at all of him being in the Avengers. I also learned that much of what I learned from reading Thor comics when I was 13 isn't totally accurate. And that mead started as god spit, then turned into blood, and ended up being farted out of Odin's ass, which is, by a train of logic that actually kinda makes sense when you read it, why it's called the drink of poets. I learned, for instance, that your legs may hump each other and produce a child while you're asleep, which is something I'm going to be more careful about from now on. It's where we got most of our knowledge of Norse mythology today, and it's wicked awesome. The Edda is a collection of Norse myths, written in the 13th century by a dude named Snorri.

The prose edda tales from norse mythology