lunedì 1 dicembre 2008

norse myth revew

Vikings: vikings were a term given by the British to the nourish people coz they went viking (raiding)

Ginnungagap: the abyss that existed before Nifleheim and Muspellheim came to be

Nifleheim: the land of ice and fog or the collective underworld

Muspellheim: the land of fire guarded by Surt

Yggdrasil: the tree to which all life lives... Midgard, Asgard, Nifleheim ect

Asgard: was the realm of the God

Midgard: the realm of the humans

Hel: child of Loki, and the queen of Hel (the origin of Hell)

Bifrost Bridge: a rainbow that linked the worlds

Ymir: the first frost giant and his body became the world, stars, ect

Odin: the best of all the Gods, God of wisdom, war & the sky

Frigg: cloud spinner wife of Odin

The Valkyries: daughters of Odin and chose the slain for Valhalla

The Norns: they make the fate... how your life will turn out

Thor: son of Odin God of war and thunder & lightning

Balder: Balder was the best of all Gods favored by all

Njord: God of the sea... high one& just as high& third stated that he was the geatest of all Gods

Frey: God of fertility and earth

Freya: Goddess of love, fertility and beauty

Idunn: guard of the golden apples of youth

Loki: God of evil father to a race of monsters trickster of all the Gods

Fenrir: wolf, son of Loki, tricked into bondage by the Gods

Jormungandr: serpent, son of Loki. tossed into the ocean ware it sits raped around the world with its tail in its mouth

Ragnarok: dooms day, the apocalypses, the day to end all we know of

Runes: a gift from Odin that mean words or can be used to predict what is to come

mercoledì 15 ottobre 2008

Essay draft

Endymion The shepherd

Endymion the shepherd was a simple man. A human of no Godly heritage just as you and me. One day he gathered his sheep off the edge of a mountain… as it got later he started to set up camp for the night… watching over his flock he slowly was engulfed with sleep.


As he slept, Selene, the goddess of the moon, watched him and fell in love with him… she came down from the heavens to lay with him. Standing over him she whispers sweet nothings. Yet he dissent wake not toss nor turn, as he lay there on this mountain forever asleep… Some clam that the moon curse him to sleep forever so that he would never leave her… his story was the inspiration to poets and bards and peasants alike.


Eyndyman was a shepherd and as simple as it really got. With shepherds they tend to have a lot of thinking time so most often than not eyndyman was very smart. He went to the top of a mountain to gather his flock… the name of the mountain is supposedly litmus… and as he slept in the middle of winter. The moon Selene came down onto the cap of the mountain and came down to him. From a modern look in winter the moon is closer than in the other times of the year.

Selene: the goddess of the moon was beautiful, so beautiful that she enchanted mortals to stare at her at night… as she looked down from the heavens she spied this man named Endymion. Endymion was a shepherded close to the earth in his own way. He was harmless to the land and gentle to the animals every thing a god could fall for. As he slept she went to him… fearing he might wake and find he hideous she as some have said enchanted him to sleep forever so that she could love him forever and he her love never die… immortal in time to be forever loved by a god.



(this is only a ruff draft.....)