Midterm Review Flashcards
Where is this passage From?
High said: There is a great deal to tell of it. There an eagle sits in the branches of the ash, and it has knowledge of many things, and between its eyes sits a hawk called Vedrfolnir. A squirrel called Ratatosk runs up and down through the ash and carries malicious messages between the eagle and Nidhogg. Four stags run the branches of the ash and feed on the foliage. Their names are Dain, Dvalin, Duneyr, Durathror. And there are so many snakes in Hvergelmir with Nidhogg that no tongue can enumerate them. As it says here:
The ash Yggdrasil suffers hardships more than people realize. Stags bite above, and at the sides it rots, Nighogg eats away at it below.
Prose Edda
- talks about yggdrasil and its vulernability. Yggdrasil supports the nine realms and once it dies everything dies with it.
Where is this passage From:
Billing’s girl I found on the bed,
sleeping, sun-radiant;
no nobleman’s pleasure could I imagine
except to live beside that body.
‘Towards evening, Odin, you should come again,
if you want to talk a girl round;
all will be lost unless only we know
of such shamelessness together.’
Back I turned, and thought that I loved,
turned back from my certain pleasure;
this I thought: that I would have
all her heart and her love-play.
When next I came, all the keen
warrior-band were awake,
with burning torches and barricading wood:
such a wretched path was determined for me.
And near morning, when I came again,
then the hall-company were asleep;
a bitch I found then tied on the bed
of that good woman.
Many a good girl when you know her well
is fickle of heart towards men;
I found that out, when I tried to seduce
that sagacious woman into shame;
every degradation the clever woman devised for me,
and I got nothing from the girl at all.
sayings of the high one
completely embrasses odin showing that he has weaknesses and can be made a fool of. makes a good statment on women.
Where is this passage from:
Loki said:
‘Be silent, Freyia, I know all about you;
you aren’t free of faults:
of the Æsir and the elves, who are in here,
each one has been your lover.’
Freyia said:
“False is your tongue, I think that soon
it will chant out disaster for you;
the Æsir are furious with you, and the Asynior,
you’ll go home discomfited.’
Loki said:
‘Be silent, Freyia, you’re a witch
and much imbued with malice,
you were with your brother, all the cheerful gods surprised you,
and then Freyia, you farted.’
Loki’s Quarrell
this is part of the story where loki is no longer siding with the aesir
Where is this Passage from:
Then said Thor, the vigorous god:
‘The Æsir will call me perverse,
if I let you tie a bridal head-dress on me.’
Then said Loki, Laufey’s son:
‘Be quiet, Thor, don’t speak these words!
The giants will be settling in Asgard
unless you get your hammer back.’
Then they tied on Thor a bridal head-dress
and the great necklace of the Brisings,
they let keys jingle by his side
and women’s clothing fall down over his knees,
and on his breast they displayed jewels,
and put a pointed head-dress properly on his head.
Then said Loki, Laufey’s son:
‘I’ll go with you and be your maid,
we two shall drive to Giant-land.’
Thryms poem
-importance here is that thor is extremely useless without his hammer
is extremely immasculated.
Where is this passage From:
Harbard said:
‘I was in Fiolvar five winters long
on that island called All-green;
we fought there and wreaked slaughter,
we tried out many things,
had our choice of girls.’
Thor said:
‘How did it turn out with your women?’
Hardbard’s Song
- Importance Thor is acting extremely dumb in a battle where he should be winning very easily.
Where is this passage from:
Then a crow said—it sat alone on a branch—
‘Why, young Kin, are you charming birds?
Rather you could be riding horses,
Laying low an army.
‘Dan and Danp own splendid halls,
a better patrimony than you possess;
they know very well how to sail ships,
to test a sword blade, to rip open wounds.’
List of rigg
orgin of kings
Where is this passage from:
“Hod took the mistletoe and shot at Baldr at Loki’s direction. The missile flew through him and
he fell dead to the ground, and this was the unluckiest deed ever done among the gods and men.
When Baldr had fallen, then all the Æsir’s tongues failed them, as did their hands for lifting him
up, and they all looked at each other and were all of one mind towards the one who had done the
deed. But no one could take vengeance, it was a place of such sanctuary. When the Æsir tried to
speak then what happened first was that weeping came out, so that none could tell another in
words of his grief. But it was Odin who took this injury the hardest in that he had the best idea
what great deprivation and loss the death of Baldr would cause the Æsir.”
Prose edda
- causes ragnarok
Eight nights I have sat here between the fires,
yet no one offered me food,
except Agnar alone, and he alone shall rule,
the son of Geirrod, the land of the Goths.’
‘Blessed shall you be, Agnar,
since Odin bids you be blest;
for one drink you shall never
get a better reward.’
Grimnir’s Sayings
toruters odin. Leads into the element of hospitlaity
