I love Norse mythology. It's interesting to try and figure out what was truthfully transcribed vs what might have been altered by the scribes and priests that where sometimes recording these myths
I adore these stories, even though I've never heard them before they seem to evoke some kind of genetic memory that is very comforting. Please please more more more ❤️
More norse please! Also I love how in some instances isolated cultures come to that sane conclusion, like how both the Greeks and the nordic people both said the sun was pulled by a chariot.
More Norse mythology would be great. I remember reading about those myths when I was younger. I even had a children's book about Norse mythology, but the only story I still remember from there is when Thor went fishing and caught Jörmungandr. I think that the second time you said Sunna at the end is quite close to how I would say it in Swedish, though I can't guarantee that it is the correct pronunciation.
Quite impressed by the Norse gods' grasp of thermal engineering. Also interesting that the Sun and Moon's genders are reversed compared to Greco-Roman mythology.
+John-Alan Pascoe You'll find it's often like that when the sun and moon are anthropomorphized in German fairy tales too. To some degree it might have to do with climate. In warmer areas, the sun could be characterized as male because the summer sun is seen as aggressive and dangerous while the moonlit night is female because it's soothing. While in colder climates, the sun could be seen as a warm nurturing force while the cold of night is more dangerous. Just a thought.
Each time they saw a blood moon or solar eclipse starting to happen, the Norse would make as much noise as possible in an effort to scare away the wolves and thus delay Ragnarok just a little bit longer.
DAEL! Okay, day = made. Wait... so should I share this with my grandma? I'm lost and directionless now, adrift on a dark and chilling sea of uncertainty and fear. Oh, Dael is Sol. I'm good again.
The Horses Skinfaxi and Hrimfaxi are involved in this tale I'm sure. Great names as well, basically "Shinning-Mane" and "Frost-Mane". Horses ridden by Sól and Nótt.
It's interesting that you should do a Norse myth this week, as I just started playing a game called "Heroine's Quest: the Herald of Ragnarok". It's an homage to old-school point and click adventure games (particularly the 'Quest for Glory' series), and borrows heavily from Norse myth and legend; I'm having a lot of fun with it so far. It's free on Steam, so you should check it out if you get a chance!
Hi Dale! I'm not Scandinavian, but I like a lot Norse mythology. The most developed Norse language is Modern German for them "Sun" is told "Sonne" as it sounds. The oldest way to say "Sun" I think it was "Sowilo" (pronounced "Sobilo"), but Celts changed it to "Sowulo" (pronounced "Sowlo") and with a lot of merges of language and travels, the result in Italian was "Sole" (pronounced "Soh-le"). By the way, I'm Mexican and in Spanish we tell it "Sol".
I am really enjoying all of your videos! I am starting to learn about mythology at my school, and having watched your vids I am able to seem really smart and stuff. I do like norse mythology, but I do like greek a little better. Could you maybe do the story about Daphne?
I have to say, the Norse myths certainly have their fair share of blood and gore. They showcase the brutality of life in the far reaches of northern Europe before most technology was even thought of. I really enjoy learning about these things, especially when narrated by Dael. ^_^
A nice norse myth i came across recently is the tale of Utgard-Loki(not to be confused with Loki-... erm, Loki!) a giant how challenges Thor, Loki(the real one this time) and their companions to a series of challenges, with some M.Night Shyamalan plot twists. also, the book i have has a picture of Thor 'grappling' a cat in a rather provocative fashion.
I would love more Norse mythology. Have you ever considered doing Native American myths or African myths? I could help you research them if you decide to do one.
+rofire9 I would be very careful on NA myths. Most book are inaccurate since it was written by a third party and not from the NA themselves. There are books out on NA teachings from NA but it hard to know the true ones from the ones that have been changed. Since most NA teachings are a little adultish for our culture and was toned down... A good start though would be the wisdom keepers and visiting NA story tellers...
+Allen Darlack You would have to admit that most written versions of Norse myths are from a third party as well, either roman soldiers or later christian missonaries.
Nice story, I had no idea those concepts came from Norse Mythology. I bet the Aztecs may have some stories about an eclipse too considering how important the sun was to them. Might be several interesting mythology tales about the meso american tribes, they had a very rich culture and history.
That was a nice piece of factual mythology, just loved that. But my biggest smile thou, is your pronouncement of there names, manly because I am danish. Just remember that, we are schooled more in Christianity then Norse mythology and others in Denmark, witch is so sad. I even grow a reddish beard, thou my hair is brown of the darker kind, and as many Scandinavian soldiers (the vikings) say - Till Valhalla - .
So once upon a time the moon was riding across the sky just minding its own business when all of a sudden a giant freaking wolf appears out of nowhere and eats it! Then in the dark the wolf hears the sound of someone whistling merrily so it waits quietly until out of the gloom comes little red riding hood. So the wolf leaps out and eats her too but her cloak gets stuck in his teeth and is just hanging there in the sky and that is how you get a blood moon during a lunar eclipse. Epilogue: The eclipse ends when the sky huntsman (Orion) comes along and opens up the wolf with a big axe.
Way cool.I don't consder myself a norse mythology expert, but I've been reading Runes for 30 years now and I have to admit I'ver read the simirillian more times then the Elder edda. You do a great job and I learned something, thanks! check out my patternz in albums, I think they come from somewhere cool!
For Sol, you say it like the name Saul, in Swedish think zoo (but with an L in the end). For Sunna (the germanic name) look up how to pronounce Sunnah (the branch of Islam), because English just doesn't have that vowel. I would say it's not your fault, but it is. Anyway, loved the myth, loved the video!
There's a mobile game I've been playing for ages now called Puzzle and Dragons. They borrow a great deal from various mythologies from around the world. Every time I get a new card that I don't recognize I have to go do a little research, and I'm always delighted to learn a little bit more. I bring this up because they do have many Norse mythology related cards. (I pulled another Odin just last night). They even have dragons Muspelheim and Niflheim (as well as Valhalla, Yggdrasil, and Helheim). They go through a lot of work to theme the cards appropriately as well. You might would like the game. Definitely worth checking out. Or, if you'd just rather check out what cards they have, puzzledragonx.com has them all catalogued.
Aud (the son of Naglfari) means Prosperity. Aud in poetic terms means fate or destiny. Naglfari is nailfarer, a ship fashioned from untrimmed finger- and toenail parings of the dead. Ritualistic disposal of bodily growth such as hair and nails was a concern for the pagan Indo-Europeans.
THAT'S WHERE THE BLOOD MOON COMES FROM?! We just stood in a field and watched. We just WATCHED as this happened. Children were eating snacks while MURDER was happening in the sky. I'm out. I'm out.
If you want to go strictly Scandinavian, I would actually go for Sól instead of any pronounciation of Sunna, as Sunna is the Germanic version of her name as far as I know. Sól would be pronounced with the ó being somewhat like the o in into, or as in Zuul, but the vowel rounded at the lips.
I always have this egocentric view that everything came from Latin because the words do sound similar if you give them the right emphasis (Luna, Sol, Nox, Dies). But then, everything comes from the same place if you go back far enough. Also, Strongguy is a great name for a horse.
+Gabriel Veiga the word sol has indoeuropean roots and that is a parent group to both latin and germanic language groups. www.thefreedictionary.com/_/roots.aspx?type=Indo-European&root=s%C4%81wel-
The word Sol (which in Spanish means "Sun") can also have been developed this way: Sowilo (Old Norse and Futhark Alphabet) Sowulo (Gaelic adaptation) Sowlo-Solo-Sole-Sol
I am not completely sure of the etymology of the words Sol and, Mani did you say? I guess Mani is like the old Germanic word mensis (moon) or deprived from that. However, I do know that in present time Sol literally means Sun and not summer. In Danish the two siblings are therefore also called Sun and Moon. It is quite easy, although not necessarily correct, to make the assumption that the story tells how the the Sun and Moon got their names. From those two siblings.
For Greek I consult several books sources including Robert Graves and the Routledge Handbook and often the primary text in question as well. For Norse mythology I unfortunately don't own any physical books that I would feel comfortable citing, so instead I research using translations of the Poetic and Prose Eddas accessible for free online.
It's not correct to say we get the words Earth, sun and moon from Norse mythology. English is also a Germanic language and those words are inherited from proto-Germanic, which is the same language Old Norse developed from. The words are cognates; we didn't get them from the Norse.
What do you mean by 'roots'? If you mean that English and German, and by extension the other Germanic languages developed from Greek, Latin and Celtic (which isn't a language but a language group, unlike Greek and Latin) then I'm afraid you're wrong. That's like saying humans evolved from gorillas or chimpanzees; it's a total misunderstanding. The Germanic languages didn't develop from Latin, Greek or any other group of Indo-European languages, but rather all Indo-European languages share a common ancestor, i.e. Proto-Indo-European. Please at least read this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages If by 'roots' you meant there are words in Germanic languages taken from other language group, then you're right, but a few word roots taken from other languages doesn't mean that the Germanic languages evolved from said languages.
Dagaz- light of the sun lord of the day riser of the chariot of dawn with you the warmth of the eternal flows with you the light of heaven is born bestow apoun this land all the good graces of the sun.
Actually: Dagaz (Alt Norsk (Old Norse)) Dag (Ænglisk (Old English)) Tag (Deutsch (Modern German)) Day (Modern English) Día (Español(Modern Spanish) ... And many more!
Always love Norse mythology more the roman. The roman gods were these crazy illogical dicks whereas Norse were more like that barabian warrior from a D&D campaign.
Proposal: The sun and moon gods each have resurrection powers, and the only way Ragnarok can occur is if they both die/eclipse simultaneously.
I love Norse mythology. It's interesting to try and figure out what was truthfully transcribed vs what might have been altered by the scribes and priests that where sometimes recording these myths
I adore these stories, even though I've never heard them before they seem to evoke some kind of genetic memory that is very comforting. Please please more more more ❤️
More norse please!
Also I love how in some instances isolated cultures come to that sane conclusion, like how both the Greeks and the nordic people both said the sun was pulled by a chariot.
Keep in mind the translator of the Eddas was a man named Snorri. I mean what kind of mother looks down at her child and tinks "I'll name him Snorri"
+Edward Iglesias Oops
It gets worse: in Swedish, snorre is a slang word for penis. The name of the translator tends to distract kids from learning the myths...
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More Norse mythology would be great. I remember reading about those myths when I was younger. I even had a children's book about Norse mythology, but the only story I still remember from there is when Thor went fishing and caught Jörmungandr.
I think that the second time you said Sunna at the end is quite close to how I would say it in Swedish, though I can't guarantee that it is the correct pronunciation.
Quite impressed by the Norse gods' grasp of thermal engineering. Also interesting that the Sun and Moon's genders are reversed compared to Greco-Roman mythology.
Yes, I'm used to the moon being she and the sun being he, but who really knows!?
+John-Alan Pascoe You'll find it's often like that when the sun and moon are anthropomorphized in German fairy tales too. To some degree it might have to do with climate. In warmer areas, the sun could be characterized as male because the summer sun is seen as aggressive and dangerous while the moonlit night is female because it's soothing. While in colder climates, the sun could be seen as a warm nurturing force while the cold of night is more dangerous. Just a thought.
I remember that Snorri Sturlson (the guy who wrote the Eddas) mentioned that there was a solar goddess whose name was "Sol"
Each time they saw a blood moon or solar eclipse starting to happen, the Norse would make as much noise as possible in an effort to scare away the wolves and thus delay Ragnarok just a little bit longer.
I personally like norse mythology, so I'm quite happy to have this videos, and that was quite interesting (I also like etymology).
I love hearing about all types of mythologies. Keep 'em coming!
DAEL! Okay, day = made.
Wait... so should I share this with my grandma? I'm lost and directionless now, adrift on a dark and chilling sea of uncertainty and fear. Oh, Dael is Sol. I'm good again.
I do like the Norse mythos and enjoy these stories.
deffinately do more norse mythology!
The Horses Skinfaxi and Hrimfaxi are involved in this tale I'm sure. Great names as well, basically "Shinning-Mane" and "Frost-Mane". Horses ridden by Sól and Nótt.
Definitely more Norse tales please.
Norse mythology is my favorite you should do more
Thank you Dael for another great myth! Keep up the good work and I will keep watching! :)
A pleasure as always, Dael. :)
Have you thought about doing some Dreamtime stories?
More Norse mythology would be fantastic. Also do you not want me to send this one to my Grandma for some reason?
It's interesting that you should do a Norse myth this week, as I just started playing a game called "Heroine's Quest: the Herald of Ragnarok". It's an homage to old-school point and click adventure games (particularly the 'Quest for Glory' series), and borrows heavily from Norse myth and legend; I'm having a lot of fun with it so far. It's free on Steam, so you should check it out if you get a chance!
I've enjoyed this video. Also the one on Trojans founding what would become the Roman Empire. Keep it up please.
Hi Dale!
I'm not Scandinavian, but I like a lot Norse mythology.
The most developed Norse language is Modern German for them "Sun" is told "Sonne" as it sounds.
The oldest way to say "Sun" I think it was "Sowilo" (pronounced "Sobilo"), but Celts changed it to "Sowulo" (pronounced "Sowlo") and with a lot of merges of language and travels, the result in Italian was "Sole" (pronounced "Soh-le").
By the way, I'm Mexican and in Spanish we tell it "Sol".
Galileo Rocha Cuevas in Latin it's "Sol, Soli"
I love these! Thank you for making another wonderful myth video!
I think this is my favorite myth so far!
Your videos are always great
I love the Norse myths!
And I always thought the blood red moon was caused by the Ultimate Warrior. You learn something new each day!
interesting, fun and educational video as always!!!
hi, I just found your channel and i wanted to say that i love it so far
Thank you very much! That makes me so happens hear!
MonarchsFactory you are welcome :)
The way I remember (from Prose Edda) was that Hatis (Beast of Hate) swore that it was going to kill the Moon in the Ragnarök
You know whose mythology is absolutely INSANE???? The Mayans as recorded in their great poem "Popul Vuh."
Awesome info, thank you
Aaah, Norse mythology is my favourite. Excellently told! :D
I am really enjoying all of your videos! I am starting to learn about mythology at my school, and having watched your vids I am able to seem really smart and stuff. I do like norse mythology, but I do like greek a little better. Could you maybe do the story about Daphne?
I have to say, the Norse myths certainly have their fair share of blood and gore. They showcase the brutality of life in the far reaches of northern Europe before most technology was even thought of. I really enjoy learning about these things, especially when narrated by Dael. ^_^
This is relevant again!
Great video
A nice norse myth i came across recently is the tale of Utgard-Loki(not to be confused with Loki-... erm, Loki!) a giant how challenges Thor, Loki(the real one this time) and their companions to a series of challenges, with some M.Night Shyamalan plot twists.
also, the book i have has a picture of Thor 'grappling' a cat in a rather provocative fashion.
Awesome as usual. Keep it up
I would love more Norse mythology. Have you ever considered doing Native American myths or African myths? I could help you research them if you decide to do one.
+rofire9 I would be very careful on NA myths. Most book are inaccurate since it was written by a third party and not from the NA themselves. There are books out on NA teachings from NA but it hard to know the true ones from the ones that have been changed. Since most NA teachings are a little adultish for our culture and was toned down... A good start though would be the wisdom keepers and visiting NA story tellers...
Allen Darlack That's a very good point. That would make it harder to research though.
+rofire9 yea it is sad enough. its very different listening to story tellers on the Rez and reading the books... :)
+Allen Darlack You would have to admit that most written versions of Norse myths are from a third party as well, either roman soldiers or later christian missonaries.
+Jack S. yes probably true (not for sure my Norse understanding is limited) but the difference is the NA are still alive and so is the culture.
You already know what I think. Yes I like it.
You have done your research excellent job, The Game Viking gives it Three thumbs up, one of them is Odins :)
Nice story, I had no idea those concepts came from Norse Mythology. I bet the Aztecs may have some stories about an eclipse too considering how important the sun was to them. Might be several interesting mythology tales about the meso american tribes, they had a very rich culture and history.
I think Aztecs had some Norse and Gaelic ancestors
That was a nice piece of factual mythology, just loved that. But my biggest smile thou, is your pronouncement of there names, manly because I am danish.
Just remember that, we are schooled more in Christianity then Norse mythology and others in Denmark, witch is so sad.
I even grow a reddish beard, thou my hair is brown of the darker kind, and as many Scandinavian soldiers (the vikings) say - Till Valhalla - .
Your beautiful dael ❤❤🌹🌹
So once upon a time the moon was riding across the sky just minding its own business when all of a sudden a giant freaking wolf appears out of nowhere and eats it! Then in the dark the wolf hears the sound of someone whistling merrily so it waits quietly until out of the gloom comes little red riding hood. So the wolf leaps out and eats her too but her cloak gets stuck in his teeth and is just hanging there in the sky and that is how you get a blood moon during a lunar eclipse.
Epilogue: The eclipse ends when the sky huntsman (Orion) comes along and opens up the wolf with a big axe.
Way cool.I don't consder myself a norse mythology expert, but I've been reading Runes for 30 years now and I have to admit I'ver read the simirillian more times then the Elder edda. You do a great job and I learned something, thanks! check out my patternz in albums, I think they come from somewhere cool!
are you still doing these mythology videos? i love these and love you
For Sol, you say it like the name Saul, in Swedish think zoo (but with an L in the end). For Sunna (the germanic name) look up how to pronounce Sunnah (the branch of Islam), because English just doesn't have that vowel. I would say it's not your fault, but it is.
Anyway, loved the myth, loved the video!
YES YES YES NORSE MYTHOLOGY
There's a mobile game I've been playing for ages now called Puzzle and Dragons. They borrow a great deal from various mythologies from around the world. Every time I get a new card that I don't recognize I have to go do a little research, and I'm always delighted to learn a little bit more. I bring this up because they do have many Norse mythology related cards. (I pulled another Odin just last night). They even have dragons Muspelheim and Niflheim (as well as Valhalla, Yggdrasil, and Helheim). They go through a lot of work to theme the cards appropriately as well. You might would like the game. Definitely worth checking out.
Or, if you'd just rather check out what cards they have, puzzledragonx.com has them all catalogued.
thank you for those videos! ;)
You forgot to say, "Share this with your grandmother." :-S
Great vid🎉❤🎉
Aud (the son of Naglfari) means Prosperity. Aud in poetic terms means fate or destiny. Naglfari is nailfarer, a ship fashioned from untrimmed finger- and toenail parings of the dead. Ritualistic disposal of bodily growth such as hair and nails was a concern for the pagan Indo-Europeans.
Wasn't nailfarer the ship built by Hel and drove by Loki during the Ragnarök?
THAT'S WHERE THE BLOOD MOON COMES FROM?!
We just stood in a field and watched. We just WATCHED as this happened. Children were eating snacks while MURDER was happening in the sky.
I'm out. I'm out.
If you want to go strictly Scandinavian, I would actually go for Sól instead of any pronounciation of Sunna, as Sunna is the Germanic version of her name as far as I know. Sól would be pronounced with the ó being somewhat like the o in into, or as in Zuul, but the vowel rounded at the lips.
Yes, moar plz
Seems Tolkien was inspired by Norse mythology when he created the Sun and Moon for Middle Earth.
+James Pettit Quite a bit of Tolkien's work was inspired by Norse mythology. Gandalf was heavily based on Odin, for example.
+Rob Pegler Not to mention that Gandalf's name comes from Old Norse, literally means "Wand/Staff Elf".
Tolkien was also inspired by Celts fairies and elf-like creatures
wow
keep up the Norse Mythology.
I always have this egocentric view that everything came from Latin because the words do sound similar if you give them the right emphasis (Luna, Sol, Nox, Dies). But then, everything comes from the same place if you go back far enough. Also, Strongguy is a great name for a horse.
+Gabriel Veiga the word sol has indoeuropean roots and that is a parent group to both latin and germanic language groups.
www.thefreedictionary.com/_/roots.aspx?type=Indo-European&root=s%C4%81wel-
The word Sol (which in Spanish means "Sun") can also have been developed this way:
Sowilo (Old Norse and Futhark Alphabet)
Sowulo (Gaelic adaptation)
Sowlo-Solo-Sole-Sol
I am not completely sure of the etymology of the words Sol and, Mani did you say? I guess Mani is like the old Germanic word mensis (moon) or deprived from that.
However, I do know that in present time Sol literally means Sun and not summer. In Danish the two siblings are therefore also called Sun and Moon. It is quite easy, although not necessarily correct, to make the assumption that the story tells how the the Sun and Moon got their names. From those two siblings.
VALHӦLL!!!
The end is coming!
Do you have a Patreon or some other way for us to financially support your work?
My god created the stars by farting glitter. Just glitter farts all over the damn sky.
Oop woop a doop to you too
for your research do you consult physical books or just links on the Internet?
For Greek I consult several books sources including Robert Graves and the Routledge Handbook and often the primary text in question as well. For Norse mythology I unfortunately don't own any physical books that I would feel comfortable citing, so instead I research using translations of the Poetic and Prose Eddas accessible for free online.
Also, there are online sources I sometimes consult for Greek that I forgot to mention, most notably Theoi.com
+MonarchsFactory a worse book I have is myths of the norsemen buy it at Barnes and noble
+MonarchsFactory just remember it's better not to believe the myths you're reading lol
Hello there women from the past !!!
WAIT@ aren't Skol and hati Fenrirs pups?
I know I need to email this to someone, but I can't remember who.
Email this to your grandmother!! =))
It's not correct to say we get the words Earth, sun and moon from Norse mythology. English is also a Germanic language and those words are inherited from proto-Germanic, which is the same language Old Norse developed from. The words are cognates; we didn't get them from the Norse.
Modern English and Modern German are actually Indo-European languages with Celtic, Greek and Latin roots as well
What do you mean by 'roots'? If you mean that English and German, and by extension the other Germanic languages developed from Greek, Latin and Celtic (which isn't a language but a language group, unlike Greek and Latin) then I'm afraid you're wrong. That's like saying humans evolved from gorillas or chimpanzees; it's a total misunderstanding.
The Germanic languages didn't develop from Latin, Greek or any other group of Indo-European languages, but rather all Indo-European languages share a common ancestor, i.e. Proto-Indo-European.
Please at least read this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
If by 'roots' you meant there are words in Germanic languages taken from other language group, then you're right, but a few word roots taken from other languages doesn't mean that the Germanic languages evolved from said languages.
i thought that the blood moon was/is associated with werewolf myths. might be wrong mythology im guessing
So Taylor Swift is a Valkyrie?
+ljmasternoob She is now.
+ljmasternoob And I thought she was a goat ?
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Have you thought of patreon.com?
I love u
Bout as phoney as my love for salt licks
What about African or Asian mythology ?
...we are gonna die
Dagaz- light of the sun lord of the day riser of the chariot of dawn with you the warmth of the eternal flows with you the light of heaven is born bestow apoun this land all the good graces of the sun.
Actually:
Dagaz (Alt Norsk (Old Norse))
Dag (Ænglisk (Old English))
Tag (Deutsch (Modern German))
Day (Modern English)
Día (Español(Modern Spanish)
... And many more!
Galileo Rocha Cuevas it's a prayer to the tangible day, the light, the day itself and the entity Dagaz.
Always love Norse mythology more the roman. The roman gods were these crazy illogical dicks whereas Norse were more like that barabian warrior from a D&D campaign.
Also, Romans copied a lot of ideas from Greeks, but made them a little boring
so next time you should do something Arabic because why not
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