Midgard | The Realm of Humankind // But why are we here?
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We are all like Odin. We are seeking wisdom and knowledge. This is awesome that you are showing everyone what is out there
I'm not a Norse Pagan, but your philosophical talks always make me come back to this channel :)
Fell out of the faith unfortunately. I'm trying to get back at it, your videos make it easier. Thank you.
Hello there, glad u r connecting again, may the gods and goddess be with you
It happened to me as well. Gods grant you strength and wisdom.
Sending you good vibes! I hope that you reconnect with the gods again!
I hear you, I too have a hard time connecting to the gods. Always have. But, I at the very least acknowledge their presence and existence even if they aren’t there. Whenever I’m outside I like to appreciate nature and the life/substance it provides and that’s how I can kind of connect to the gods. Skäl.
SKAL! Hope you enjoy the journey back to the gods
Metaphorically I think Ymir could be the raw, unformed planet, incapable of supporting human life. The gods shaped it and formed the enclosure of Midgard, perhaps our atmosphere protecting us from space rocks? But they helped make it into the more relatively "tame" world we are able to inhabit and enjoy
All very interesting and insightful theories!
This channel just reinforces my faith. I know our gods exist.
You don't understand how much this helped me. Being strangers on the internet I feel compelled to tell you that this video saved me. So thank you for your mad ramblings. ✌🏻
Very happy this video could help! Take care, and enjoy the beauty that is out there!
I have been a Norse pagan my whole life I am from Dublin Ireland and I am on my own journey with the gods but I am really grateful for the wisdom lord Odin has blessed me with skal brothers and sisters much love and respect from a very proud Irish Norse pagan and I am a very proud heathen
Your theory is quite logical. It would make sense to put yourself behind the eyes of the ancestors and see their perspective of what's in front of them. Trees and mountains by nature are the protectors. Trees are known to stop flooding from torrential downpours. Mountains bounce off the damaging winds. I lived in Tennessee for 17 years and the town I lived in was a valley. We were hardly ever touched by tornadoes or even hurricanes that were traveling our way. Of course things are changing due to industrial development. 😕 Great video. I hope the elder gentleman learned something from you.😊
Trees also filter the heat from the sun, feeding off its sunlight which benefits them and benefits us. Everything works for the sake of itself and for something else
unfortunately the same peoople who ruin nature's way with industrialism, are now trying to alter biologic life itself with tehcnology. One has to see the plans of the world economic forum to know this
I love your theories and the way you think outside the box in general.
My theory for why we are here: I think we're here to make the world and (eventually) the universe a better place. It is our duty to protect nature and the sanctity of life.
“Make the world a better place”, such a vague platitude. You describe humanity like a Christian. We just exist. If anything, I agree with it being out “duty” to be keepers of nature, as well as the natural order of the world.
Hey everyone! I am a swedish man who has been seeking my whole life for a feeling of connection. I have been drawn to our old ways for about six months now and it really resonates with me. I am so lonely however and would really like to find a community of like minded.🇸🇪🔥
Your last theory makes sense since it seems even neighboring villages worshipped different gods or even the local land spirits and not the gods at all. The common link always seems to be the ancestors.
I’ve really been asking my spirit to help me make more sense of how to cope with feeling like I have came from an old world time. I do not fit in to today’s society. My ancestors are Nordic pagan, but sometimes I feel like I’ve lived a life before this one with my ancestors. Sometimes I wonder why I am in this time & realm. It’s been very difficult for me, but watching videos that are this informative is exactly the kind of help I need to understand things better.
I do think Midgard & earth are working together separately. I think Midgard is exactly what it says it is, but a MID GUARD between realms to protect us.
Another great video, Jacob! You’re capturing the beauty of the world well as you travel, so worry not on that front.
As for Midgard and Earth, I believe its two-fold. Your theory at the end of it all being localized is very true, especially given the times of when it was created. However, I also believe it is true on a much larger scale too. Why did it only have to be one or the other?
On the grand scale, I believe Earth is Earth (Egads! A revelation!) and Midgard represents the entirety of the universe. The physical realm. Or at the very least, the solar system as one other person (John Deslatte) commented earlier.
And thus, the former serves as a microcosm of the latter. Two layers of the same truth.
Just my two cents!
I do believe the ancestors would record these micro views, but in the micro they do add to the macro universe. Just like how everything is a cycle, down to the smallest cells, to the birth and death of stars.
I like your interpretation of what Midgard is and that there is a difference between that and earth. Also that Midgard is a place of balance. Good/evil/life/death/joy/sadness and so on.
Your correct on that Odin and his brothers, created Midgard for a purpose we might not even know. Since he also made Asgard for one purpose for the Aesir Gods, since they were always at war with the Jötuns/giants, and the Vanir Gods, since Odin and the Asgardians tried to invade Jötunheim, and Vanaheim, but it is said when Ragnarök happens Surtur will destroy Asgard, and the wolves (i dont remember their names) ests the moon and the sun during ragnarök since Midgard is in a long winter, since it wont make since the Giants would try to take over Midgard themselves.
I came to the conclusion that Midgard was earth before Ragnarok. I feel like we are in a time "between Ragnaroks" (feeling that Ragnarok is a cyclical occurrence) and protection from giants isn't necessary right now...so there isn't a Midgard type protective magical dome over us at the moment. You gave us much to think about.
I like the theory. And your ramblings are fantastic. Thanks for your good work
I'm really enjoying your channel and have shared it with my coven. Also, because of you, I'm probably going to add Freya to my personal pantheon once I learn a bit more about her.
Keep up the great work.
Very interesting concepts. Much to give thought to.
That is very interesting Jacob, you could be definitely right on this subject! BEAUTIFUL scenery !!!😀🤣👍 Hail Wotan All-father, Skål💀🍻
What if Midgard is our experience on Earth, not Earth itself. Our eyelashes technically Guard our Perespective of Midgard. Idk lol
Interesting 👍😎🤣
Watched this with headphones and it was so cool to hear the bugs buzzing on the mic with the water sounds in the background. Currently trying to drown out the loud chatter in my break room at work. lol
Danke my brother! Forgive my broken German as I am learning and don't know much yet! Very happy to see you and as always thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with me and all here. I have fallen off a little and your videos help me greatly to get back in touch and the more wisdom the better! Have a great trip and may the Gods watch over you and guide you always my brother and I believe the bees are showing agreeableness from what we can't see and the lake keeps you grounded 🤟
Great video and thoughts. Midgard, which I like to personally call mittilgart or mittangard as the Old High German would've been closer to my continental ancestors, is a living concept that evolved organically. Later it was written down by the Norse in the Eddas, told through great lore filled with allegories. To me its not so much the literal world around us as the deeper metaphysical and spiritual existence on all levels, to be understood in an animistic sense of the totality of beings and spirits imbuing everything. So it touched upon something deep and primal, grounding us to the Earth as much as observing our place within the Cosmos above. I like this quote by Wolf Dieter Storl:
"Of course, not everyone in central Europe was a farmer or shepherd at that time. Hunters and gatherers continued to survive in the vast forests. They did not see a contrast between nature and culture like the Neolithic farmers did; for them, the forest was neither strange nor dangerous, but an extension of 'home'. The idea of Midgard - a peaceful world, with a garden in the middle protected by the gods, surrounded by a perilous, external wild world (Utgard) - is based on this late Stone Age ideology." (Storl, The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present, Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2017, pp. 102-103)
We can also understand it with the Celtic concept of the Mediolanum: "It meant something like 'sanctuary' or 'sacred enclosure' or 'the centre' or 'middle'. The word 'Mediolanum' is thought to have been related to a notion that is also found in other mythologies: the idea that our world is a Middle Earth whose sacred sites correspond to places in the upper and lower worlds." (Graham Robb, The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe, London: Picador, 2014, p. xvi)
Thus, our "physical" Midgard is inseparable from the upper and lower realms. Perhaps we can also reach back to shamanic times for insights as you also did in your video about the Norse and Hellenic Gods. That Midgard (and other realms) are not merely "physical" places that can be located, much less conceptualized fully, was also brilliantly expressed by Norwegian scholar Eldar Heide in a paper available online: "Contradictory cosmology in Old Norse myth and religion - but still a system?," in Maal og Minne: Norske Studier (Oslo), Vol. 106, 2014, pp. 102-143. ... As with so many other things, there is a deeper Mystery and Wisdom within all aspects of Paganism/Heathenry - and that's truly what makes our faith most beautiful and enriching!
staggeringly beautiful...thank you for sharing ❤️
Sweet. I lived in Wildflicken Germany before during and after the fall of the wall and visited Garmisch, Neuschwanstein and Berchtesgaden a few times and they were all very delightful beautiful. At least in the late 80’s before the wall came down.
The quality of videos is constantly improving and the sheer amount of beauty in this video is stunning, i'm always looking forwards to the next video! keep it up Jacob brother!
Thank you means a lot! I am very proud of this video, and the 7 I am working on right now! They all have similar styles so hopefully they are just as good!
@@TheWisdomOfOdin I am eager to watch them! Also the exclusive posts on Patreon are also really good
My go to book states or well my impression of what it states is the eyelashes created a barrier such as the atmosphere : Out of the flesh they fashioned Midgard (middle garden), as earth was called. This was placed in the exact center of vast space and hedged round with yamirs eyebrows for bulwarks or ramparts.
The balance makes sense the world needs balance light and dark together as one as a healthy middle ground
Fascinating idea! It's given me a great deal to think about, especially as I'm at the beginning of my Norse studies and am grappling to get a hold of the basics. Up till now, I've heard "Earth" and "Midgard" used interchangeably. Perhaps Midgard is a state of mind, and giants breaking the walls of Midgard is the breaking of our perspective and what we thought we knew to be true. Ragnarök would then be the fiery transformation of the soul before beginning a new chapter. The myths we've inherited would truly be the metaphors of the gods used to help us understand how to go about the process of radical change--which we all experience at least once in our lives, and usually more.
Or maybe I'm talking out of my hat! LOL
Lots for me to think about! Thank you for the work you do!
It sounds reasonable, but there are times when a greater mass of humanity is transformed. We may each go through spiritual transformations in any time, but there are underlying influences, not understood by the primitive unevolved scientific understanding of the 21st century, which can cause a great many more people to go through transformation all at the same time. Those are times when golden ages rise. Sociological change is extreme in those times. Only a fool would imagine things are always static. Yet secular science puts forward this idea that things beyond our awareness never change. The scientists should be the first to realise that is a fallacious theory. The number of unseen influences are far beyond anything we have imagined. I appreciate they may fearfully cling to the erroneous idea that humanity has absolute control over nature, even in this primitive era, but it's just a psychological trick to make people feel safe. It is far better that people understand the necessity to be strong, because humanity doesn't have such fabled superpowers of environmental control.
Kinda sounds like Jupiter. Being that it protects the earth from cosmic debris. Or maybe even the entire solar system, being on the same scale of protection. Especially once you leave the solar system you have fire plasma radiation that encircles the entire solar system. Which kinda works with Muspelheim. And why anything else to back this up? Well, Space Cow! Cosmic Moo
I'd like to think that the nine realms are the planets in our solar system and Midgard is the astroid belt built to protect us from outside forces, be it 'aliens' (jhotuns) and yggdrasil be the milky way since our ancestors would look to the sky at night and see it as a gigantic branch/tree.
@@kylewilson6478 yeah I thought about that. But the lore talks of Midgard and earth being within Midgard. So it tended to lead me to this plane is Midgard. And earth is contained within that. And the other realms are on another plane altogether. Just how I deciphered the lore. Nothing against any other views
Midgard and the realms kinda fall into the idea of dimensions. I don’t see these beliefs as primitive knowledge I think they knew more then we do now and we are the primitive ones in context to what they knew. I think a lot of knowledge was lost and secrets kept from us which is one of many reasons I respect Odin is his thirst for knowledge/wisdom. Awesome video! Keep it up you teach me a lot brother :) the Gods called me back from Christianity which personally I felt empty it wasn’t for me and didn’t come natural like this.
Thank you for the theories and your videos brother !
I loved this video Thank you so much yet agin another brilliant video 🤗 Breathtakingly beautiful were you are and your theory was very interesting and makes sense to me I have also thought about the same at times keep up the amazing work! SKOL!
I hope our religion is respected how everyone’s native faith is respected now.
midgard might be the universe we live in
The idea of Midgard being a balance just makes sense. If you take Midgard to be Earth and consider Earth in the now and the ups and downs of societies then this balance rings true. Midgard, as a realm, is protected by the gods and has the Jotnar trying to invade, this shows a balance, taking the two as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ respectively. The balance of Midgard and thus the balance of society makes you realise the truth behind this theory. Throughout history peace and war occur frequently and often one after the other, this could be Midgard’s nature of balance.
Thought on this?
Beautiful video
Good video and theories, thanks !
4:50 lol Loki messing with the video,jk lol. Nice to see another video again Jacob. Everyone is really nervous for the Dutch Midsummer video 😂😂
Haha, everyone should be excited, it was a great weekend!
@@TheWisdomOfOdin Sure was, Jacob!
Awesome video thank you so much for this!
I always just assumed midguard meant our universe as a whole and we (Earth) exists within it.
My interpretation of Yggdrasil is the world tree is the network of mountains which branch out from Eurasia and each realm is a continent. And that the Bifrost was the bridges of ice that existed during the ice age that connected each realm. I also believe that Odin and Noah were the same man but known by different names and The Flood and Ragnarok are the same. And that he lived 950 years and was 600 years old when Yggdrasil was submerged in water. I also believe he was the true inspiration for Santa because he built a large sleigh and rasied animals that would pull it across the Bifrost to the various realms where he oversaw the various tribes which eventually became nations and the different races.
Perhaps Midgard was a particular area that was once covered in large glaciers that eventually drifted out to sea and melted, carving large valleys along the way. My guess is Midgard is Europe. And it is in the middle because of the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas.
Fantastic production cool music
I too assumed Midgard was Earth. But your idea is interesting to think about. However, Thor is the protector or Midgard and it just seems odd to me that he would protect a fortification instead of the whole Earth.
Midgard being a protective barrier around our world makes sense. I experienced spirits (ghosts) and I do realize that they need some sort of source in order to manifest themselves in our world. Midgard could be the barrier that separates our realm from other realms with this conclusion
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Midgard between heaven and earth, bit like humans are half gods. Gard is a word almost like garden, but can mean a farm also. Enclosure and kempt, an enclosed habit also. So meaning was probably a habit area between heaven and earth. My take, being of Swedish origin and having a good sense of the language.
My Hometown.....
I just love your videos. You rock
This is one of my favorite! Was such a beautiful filming experience
Midgard maybe the spiritual world upon earth it self. Only chosen can see it.
Concerning terminology, I would refer to Paganism as a religion not a faith. Religion is active - sacrificial - giving to the Gods. Faith is passive - sacramental - God giving a gift. In religion humanity goes to the Gods; in faith God comes to humanity. These terms refer to very different dispositions visa vi humans and Gods/God.
In this same vein, we get a lot of different names in Grimnismal where Odin says the gods live. Could it also be that what we refer to as Asgard is actually just the wall that was built by that one Jotun and Svadilfari that surrounds the lands of the gods?
I assumed Midgard would represent the humanly percievable universe. Kinda like how in shamanism, there is the realm of the divine, realm of the living, and realm of the dead, the three roots of Yggdrasil, perhaps?
Rambleings of a mad Pagan. It sounds like a cool blog, book, or maybe a beer. The last theory makes the most sense to me.
I am thinking book, just a bunch of crazy thoughts 😂
@@TheWisdomOfOdin I would buy that book.
I think of it in terms of dimension. Midgard would be our entire plane of existence. The other eight realms are different dimensions of vibrational frequency.
Anyone know which translation of the Eddas (both versions together) is the most descriptive accurate? Kinda reminds me of the icewall stories.
Thank you for doing these and more then likely getting bit by misquotes. I recommend lemongrass essential oil mixed with some olive oil. Rub into the skin. Misquotes won't bite for 6-12 hours, depending on how strong the lemongrass is ✌
Thanx so much.
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it a sound theory.
Confunden map Midgard is on it
Hay Jake I just thought of this what if Midguard was some type of like Gia t fort to keep Ragnarak from hitting us. Because Mid is middle and guard is a defense so what if it was to hold the events of ragnarak from spillin into earfh
Hey Jacob - what is the song that plays at the start of this video if you don't mind me asking? I've noticed it on others - a beautiful composition!
Perhaps Midgard is the universe in which the earth and other planets are.....the other realms are outside of "space"
I would really like to go to Germany and much of northern europe
I kinda feel like Earth is where the humans who survived Ragnarok were brought definitely could be wrong though..
Got you something. Earth is Earth where we live. Midgard is the ozone layer/magnetic field in the atmosphere that protects us from the Sun's harmful effects?
Ah yes, I forgot I am protected by eye lashes.
The thickest of lashes! Ymir must have used mascara
@@TheWisdomOfOdin Maybe it's Mayballine???
Our solar system is midgard and the oort cloud is the fortification
Can anyone recommend where to buy a properly translated hardcover of Prose Edda and Poetic Edda?
Maybe they are different names for the same thing like how Odin has many different names used
Hello there, is there anyway you could do a video about Álfblót in October?🎃
Trees and groves are our sacred aka holy places. Our beautiful religion is so important . It’s our ancestral. Inheritance. And anyone from any race can be Norse pagan. There was Viking pagans from all races so there is no gate keeping. I love the ancestral venerating and trying to get closer to the ancient spirts of old. I love my faith and my folk. Hail To all the modern norsemen
Hi. Good comment about our ancestors and Sacred Spaces, but I think saying there were Viking Pagans from all races is a huge stretch. The Norse were the most racially homgeneous people in Europe. The recent study showed this. It showed that there was some non-Scandinavian dna in some of the samples, but in the main, it was from other Northern European countries, such as Britain and Estonia. An amount of Southern European was found in some samples, and this was typically hyped up and distorted by the press, so now we get "Multi Cultural Vikings" One of the main professors involved in the project quit, because of this twisting of the facts! It's all about disconnecting us with our roots.
There were not “viking” (Germanic) pagans from all races. The most diverse you probably would have got was a viking of partial slavic, anglo, or celtic descent if they were a son of a local slave/concubine/wife from those areas they frequented. These pagan beliefs were deeply tied to ethnicity/tribe back in the day. Each tribe and ethnic grouping had their own beliefs, they didn’t just “convert” like it’s Christianity. Even when Germanic tribes invaded the former Roman Empire and took places over, only the German ruling elite practiced Germanic paganism, before becoming Christian. I’m not trying to gatekeep, but this is revisionist history, trying to justify making Germanic/Norse paganism into a universal religion like Christianity, it’s not.
@@monkeymoment6478 Very well put
What if midgard ties into the hollow earth theory, and once humans look ved underground until they were able to defeat the giants, thus coming out of caves to inhabit the land
Midgard is the solar system? Or atmosphere? Atmosphere protects us and allow for life, as does our location in the solar system. 🍻
Is there any correlation between ‘Odin’ and O’donn, O’Dunn or other variations of the surname’Dunn’?
Our realm is mid Gard . There is 3 "earths"= Midgard , Tara, earth.
MIdgard is earth (Flat Earth) Antartica is the Giant Ice Walls, MIdgard or Earth is a flat plain of the 3D Model of Earth Odin and his brothers created for us (Concept). Outside of the flat plain Earth aka MIdgard exist other beings who know about us and are hostile against us on the actual planet we're on. we are to never travel beyond Antarctica for something bad will happen to us. The Firmament and Dome is mentioned in the Antartic Treaty in the Encyliapedia Britannica - The Bible means The Firmament so basically speaking if Earth is a flat plain that means Heaven is Beyond Antartica and the Governments of the world knows about this and it logicallyf fits in every mythloogy which comes from Egyptian and egypitian came from Sumeria which talks about Annunaki which also fits this logic too!!
Could Midgard be the mortal plane of mankind better said mortal kind given the vast universe and there be a universe of giants
Charlemagne is one that wanted our religion destroyed. But you can’t destroy our faith because the gods have shown how powerful they are cause now they are in movies and comice. So they never left. And it was a tragedy that meh chopped down and tryed to destroy all our sacred holy places
Reality is not static in three dimensions. Everyone creates it with their perspectives. Their interpretations based on the symbols within them. It is not a simple matter of everyone sees an object and recognises this is a conglomeration of atoms with a mass and dimensions of 'blah blah blah'. People see what they see. Reality is distorted by opinion, and it varies through centuries and millennia. Utgard has leaked into Midgard. Asgard fell in 2020. The Christmas Star marked the passing of Baldur. Ragnarok has begun again. The movements of the planets are independent from the petty opinions of humans. The planets continue revolving, and cannot be stopped by some windbag with a lectern. Everything is ongoing, and repairs are being made. Asgard will rise again. To those who have faith, this will have value. To those without faith, only money really has value, and it is worthless. They will not prosper.
Don't underestimate your intuition. Frigg see everything. She is real, and the things people realise through intuition are passed down by muses. She has always been here. She watches, and she knows what is happening. Everything is planned far in advance. The people of the past didn't know how much they really knew. The stories they left us are more than just stories. Different interpretations in different times and different lands with different cultures, but always the same presence, and the same principles.
Damn I wanted to say I was first 😪 😔
You were first for the public release! Sadly the patreon people beat ya 😂
@@TheWisdomOfOdin hahaha but I am also a patreon! I sent you a message with like 20 questions the other day remember 😁
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HAIL Wotan All-father, Skål💀🍻
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amazing vid. BUT!!!!!!!!! you forgot to mention the name of your fav subsciber "ME" 🤣🤣 lol hihiihih