#Glöð

[sigyn-foxyposts]

"Ash & Glowing Ambers"

I always felt a little bad for Logi, his wife and daughters, considering quite a few have compared him to Loki. Basically taking away Logi's own unique identity and family! There is so much more interesting stuff to read about Logi and his wife, that doesn't have to be a connection to someone else.

Which is what I've included here, their very own fan fiction and some art to go along with it! If you know me, I just love making content for minor deities or creatures and I thought it was about time they deserved something for themselves. Sorry if it's a little short 🔥

[randomtheidiot]

Friendly reminder that

-Loki is not a god of fire. That would be Logi, who faces off against Loki in an eating competition, so there’s no way it’s just a typo. They are separate beings who met once.

-In Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Loki and Logi were combined to make a sort of franken-god called Loge, who had the powers of Logi and the personality of Loki. Wagner’s Ring Cycle is not real Norse mythology. It is a fanfic made by some German opera geek.

-Logi is married to Glöð (often transliterated as “Glut”) and Loki is married to Sigyn, with the specifics of Angrboða’s relationship with him being unclear outside of “they had sex once”.

-Loki has never canonically met Glöð, nor has he ever had any connection to fire as an elemental power. He might be a hearth god, though, but it isn’t quite certain.

Stop listing Loki as a fire god and stop saying that he has Glöð as a side-hoe. Neither of those things are true.

[reno-matagot]

Glöð and her daughter Eisa' by Drowned Orange (2021)

Glöð is a legendary queen who figures in the Norse Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar. She is the wife of Logi, a fire giant, god and personification of fire, mentioned in the Prose Edda.

[lokiscarlip]

@the-archangel-squad Loki? Loki Scarlip? Loki Flamehair? Loki Silvertongue? None of those ring a bell to you? How about this? I am Loki Laufeyjarson - a subtle mesh of Fire Etin and Frost Etin - blood brother to the Allfather himself, Odin Borsson. One time husband of Glöð, one time husband (of sorts) to Angrboðda the Witch of the Iron Wood, husband to Sigyn. Mother of Sleipnir, father of Eysa and Eimyrja, father of Fenrir, Jormungandr, and Hel, and father of Narvi and Vali.

Still no?

Well, I'm certainly not a demon. I might be small for a Jotun, but I'm bigger than your little demons.

And I'm here to hang out with y'all and have a little fun. Cool?

How come Hell gets OSHA and we don't? Some of these humans we're meant to bless tend to lash out at an unfamiliar sight, and I've never once had anyone ask if my wings were okay after having feathers pulled out of them like a pillow.

If you've gotten close enough to a human for them to pull feathers from your wings, then you're in violation of procedure. Please report our office to sign up for the next Proper Human-Angel Interaction training session.

[keydraws-1]

Diety doodle: "Glöð" Title: Goddess of the ember flames Pantheon: Norse ❄ Lore: Daughter of Grímr of Grímsgarðr in Jǫtunheimr. The wife of Logi ( he was the personification of fire). some concept art for Glöð. I really need to work on my fashion and color schemes.

[talesfromthenorsesmouth]

I have been doodling, and here are some ideas about Glöð, or Glut who was Loki’s first wife (except for how she wasn’t)

Glöð was the wife of Halogi, King of Norway in the Thorstein saga (Or possibly not)

Or maybe she was the consort of Logi, the fire god (then again, alternatives are possible) (like Logi and Halogi being the same person)

Her mother, Alvör, was one of the Light Elves of Alfheim and her father was  Grímr of Grímsgarðr, which is a small town in Jötunheim, and she herself is a fire goddess (but I mean, I have been wrong before so perhaps she isn’t)

Anyway, her name means ‘Glow’, and she has two lovely daughters, Eysa/Eisa and Eimyrja with Loki Logi Halogi SOMEONE

Personally, I went with Glöð as some kind of fire spirit

Short fire hair/long fire hair, I imagine it changes on her mood

An alternative translation of her name is ‘Glad’, and I feel like she is a lot of fun

Loki oh my god go away, I just explained how she isn’t your wife

o well too late

now i will have to draw them together forever

o no

[hymnsroleplayfun]

Written in Blood and Just Plain Unlucky (4)

Tony wasn't satisfied with her answer now that she mentioned sheet music. However, Steve barging in past him and what Morgan was saying to him... this wasn't good. "Let's leave Steve alone with her, guys. Morgan... I want to show you something..." he said. Fuck it, she might as well know all the reasons for the questions. He had no idea how to currently comfort Steve without making it worse, so he kept his mouth shut and went out of tje room to wait for Morgan.

Clint stood up as well, patting Steve on the shoulder and decided to give him a little advice. "Talk to her. Thor said something avojt fighting for her soul. Probably why that's happening." He said, getting a good look at the name from where he was. "Let her know you're still here waiting for her. Believe me when I say she can hear you." He finished before he, too walked out.

[in-defense-of-loki]

A Soothing Snuggle by TheEccentricFox

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Relationships: Loki (Marvel)/Original Female Character

Additional Tags: Jotunn Loki (Marvel), Cuddling & Snuggling, Misery of Cramps, Mentions of Feminine Products, feel better fics, Short OFC, Underwear, nude, Naked Cuddling, Sort of

Summary: Wrote this when I started my period last week, just to comfort myself. I'll introduce my OFC soon, she is who I ship Loki with, typically (if not Sigyn, Angrboda, or Glöð (tho the last one is still debated)). But I decided to share a little something while I'm still writing out my other WIPs...of which I have so many...

[jeffreystewart]

Norsery Rhymes from A to Z Eisa and Eimyja, Glowing Embers, and Ashes Embers - V2 Well here we are on another ThorsDay with another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic, sometimes Celtic) mythological characters.  This week it’s a version of Eisa / Eysa and Eimyja / Einmyria of the Jotnar (Jotun / Jotunn / Jetten / Eoten / Giant / Risi) mentioned in the Eddas

Eisa / Eysa, translated as ‘glowing embers’ Is likely from the Proto Germanic meaning “glowing”, “hot coal” or a “burning fire”. With Eimyja, translated as ‘Ashes and Embers’ Is likely from the Proto Germanic words ‘aimuzjǭ’, meaning “embers”, “hot ash” or a “pyre”. And ‘aimaz’ meaning “to burn”.

Jotuns and Daughters to the elemental god Eldr Logi / Logi / Hálogi ‘high flame’. Elemental Personification of Wildfire and described as Risi or a towering giant type of Jotun. Along with their mother the giantess Glöð / Glut / Glod ’glad’ or “’glowing embers’.

Both Eisa and Eimyja are renown for their beauty. They’re described as the first family of kings of Norway and their royal line. All are described initially as, unusually tall, muscular, and beautiful.

Portraying them as older and elemental versions of themselves this time. I think I’ll likely do one more elemental version and an older but human looking version after this.

[thorraborinn]

A quick post about Glut, “Loki’s third wife”

Maybe this is well-known by now? I don’t really frequent Lokean spaces so I don’t know how this has aged, so this might just be a history lesson, and (hopefully) not commentary on an error that continues to proliferate. I don’t see it much anymore. But I think it’s illustrative of the way that heathenry needs to develop a culture of research skills more than it needs a greater proliferation of lore-based trivia.

Back in the day it used to be believed by many that Loki had a third wife named Glut, in addition to Sigyn and Angrboða (and actually often asserting that Glut was his first wife for some reason, I have no idea where anyone came up with the order in which he married). I remember it circulating on Tumblr with the belief that this was a mass-SPG as nobody could find it in the existing lore, but it was a common enough belief that it couldn’t be explained as one person’s UPG. If I remember correctly there were people claiming UPG that confirmed it. If you do some Googling you can still find some personal sites from before online heathenry was a predominately social media thing that have Glut on long lists of gods and stuff.

The truth is that this originates in an unlikely sequence of errors all of which should individually have been easily avoided. To this day, an obvious error continues to persist even in supposed corrections (spelling it “Glöð” instead of the correct “Glóð”).

In Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar, Logi ‘fire, flame’ is a man descended from giants, also known as Hálogi (’high-Logi; tall-Logi’) because of his height, and from his name came the Hálogaland province of Norway. This is a Euhemerization of the fire giant Logi and etiological myth explaining the name Hálogaland. His wife was named Glóð ‘red-hot embers,’ and their daughters were Eisa ‘glowing embers’ and Eimyrja ‘embers.’

In very many editions, Glóð is spelled “Glöð,” even when given the correct definition. This is wrong. Glöð is a completely different word, the feminine of glaðr ‘glad.’ The reason for this is that some manuscripts of Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar do in fact spell the name ⟨Glöd⟩, because they were written before standardized orthography, and other instances of long ó are also written ⟨ö⟩ in these manuscripts.

Manuscript Lbs 1726 8vo reads ⟨Glöd⟩, but also reads ⟨Häloge⟩ Hálogi, ⟨tök⟩ tók, ⟨brä⟩ brá, ⟨ättu⟩ attu, showing the scribe’s preference for using two dots to show length rather than to distinguish ó or o from ö.

Whereas here we have AM 567 XXIV 4to which has ⟨glod⟩, and above that also has the word sögu written ⟨ſavgv⟩ (that is, it’s writing ö as ⟨av⟩ or ⟨au⟩).

Anyway, the word glóð, in German, is Glut. I am not sure how this became the name by which she is known among heathens instead of the actual Old Norse, whether Glóð or the incorrect-but-at-least-understandable Glöð. At first I suspected Jacob Grimm, but I have never found evidence for that in Teutonic Mythology.

So the sequence of mistakes goes something like this, perhaps not in this order.

Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar starts out about Loki

Loki and Logi are taken for granted to be identical

It’s assumed that a Euhemerized “historical” king of northern Norway can inform us about the mythological figure Logi (note: this isn’t necessarily a problem, but it should be known when we’re doing that)

it’s assumed that there is no (or at least minimal) continuity break between Euhemerized “history” and mythology

the first two things taken together means that this Euhemerized figure also tells us about Loki

side note: nobody ever seems to argue that Loki is a brother of Ægir and Kári for some reason, though these are Logi’s brothers -- as a further digression that would make Þorri, my blog’s namesake, Loki’s great-great nephew)

Glóð’s name is read straight off the manuscript with no accounting for paleography resulting in “Glöð” in academic texts like Valdimar Ásmundarson’s edition

Glóð is translated to German for some reason

[lancerofdarkness]

Character Name: Glöð

Gender: Female

Class: Lancer

Background:

A lone Lancer, lone traveller, a wanted criminal for disobeying commands from Elionian Church (the same move Enslar, her lancer predecessor, did for disobeying commands) and breaking unspeakable rules in Holy College like do not want to dye her hair red and other ridiculous rules.

Thus, she dropped out of the college and start her own journey with her Black Spirit. She avoids to be in party with other adventurers unless she absolutely has to, and she'll make sure she doesn't stand out and hide her power as much as possible.

Because there's really only few Valkyrie that awaken to be Lancer, she'll be so easily spotted if she shows her power to other adventurers and her dark hair is a dead giveaway. Because Lancer is rare, there are times when in one generation, there's only one Lancer, and unfortunately, that happened to her. Also the fact that the establishment of Holy College is not old, so the Valkyries that awakened as Lancer can be counted by fingers. The other Lancers that are still alive, all of them dyed their hair red. That's why, she got her nickname Black Lancer.

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I know Gladiator are rarer than Lancer user, but this is my story. I'll make Lancer special because they deserve more love. I'm not gonna make a Mary Sue (hopefully I don't accidentally write that)

Her hairstyle when she was in college: post

Second Character: Ásgeirr

Third Character Intro: post

Edit: I change her name to a queen of norse mythology, she's the wife of Logi (Logi is not Loki)

[hatari-translations]

Hatari’s wholesome baking video - cultural context

All right, I’ve been asked to translate a particular interview, but as I started typing out context on that I realized that I really should make a post on this first.

All Hatari fans have probably by now seen this video, Hatari’s postcard from the Söngvakeppnin finals:

In this delightful video, Matthías and Klemens do their cousin handshake in a gym full of children, bake a cake for Klemens’s daughter, and eat it while someone reads out mean comments about them (tiny Iceland: the guy reading the mean comments went to school with me and owes me money). The contrast between the wholesome baking, the dark and edgy nature of Hatari’s act, and the hatemail-reading is hilarious on its own - but did you know that the wholesome baking is also a biting parody of an Icelandic political ad?

In 2016 (wow, has it really been that long?), the Panama Papers were published, and among the people implicated there were Icelandic prime minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson and finance minister Bjarni Benediktsson. This was a major scandal, Sigmundur Davíð was eventually (very reluctantly) pushed to resign, and the elections scheduled for 2017 were set for October 2016 instead. In the lead-up to the 2016 election, Bjarni Benediktsson’s Independence Party published this campaign ad, in a very transparent attempt to humanize him and make him seem likeable to counteract the impact of the scandal.

In the campaign ad, Bjarni bakes a cake, while describing his process:

Það er mikill kærleikur í svona köku, það er ekki spurning. Þessi litli frágangur, það er það sem gerir þetta flott. Og það er líka það sem tekur mestan tíma.

Nú er ég að dunda mér við að klára að gera munninn, og svo koma augun. Þau verða úr svona svörtu. Þetta er svolítið klístrað hjá mér. Ég er að reyna að bjarga þessu.

Bara það sem krökkunum finnst spennandi í það og það skiptið. Stundum er það eitthvað sem er í leikhúsinu. Eins og þegar Lína Langsokkur var, þá var það spennandi að fá Línu-köku. Ég fer bara í krakkaheiminn. Svo er eitthvað nýtt næsta ár.

Þóra hjálpaði mér að baka sjálfa kökuna, og svo kem ég og skreyti þetta. Ég er sko ágætlega lunkinn í höndunum. Mér finnst gaman að gera svona fína hluti, þá sjaldan sem ég hef tíma til þess, eins og að hnýta flugur, veiðiflugur, og svona skreyta.

Það sem er skemmtilegast við að gera svona köku er að sjá andlitin á krökkunum, dóttur minni, hvað hún verður hissa og glöð. Það er náttúrulega það sem er skemmtilegast.

The baking portion of Hatari’s postcard video is a direct parody of this ad, to the point where most of their lines concerning the baking are direct or near-direct quotes of Bjarni’s lines in the video; I’ve bolded these lines above. Translated:

There’s a lot of love in a cake like this, no question. These little details, they’re what makes it good. And that’s also what takes the most time.

Now I’m working on finishing the mouth, and then it’s the eyes. They’ll be made of black. It’s a bit sticky. I’m trying to fix it.

Just whatever the kids think is exciting each time. Sometimes it’s something playing at the theater. Like when Pippi Longstocking was on, then getting a Pippi cake was exciting. I just go into the kids’ world. Then it’s something new next year.

Þóra [his wife] helped me bake the cake itself, and then I come along and decorate it. I’m pretty good with my hands. I like making nice things, on the rare occasion I have the time, like making flies, fishing flies, and decorating like this.

The best part of making a cake like this is seeing the faces of the kids, my daughter, and how surprised and happy she is. That’s obviously the best part.

The cake’s obviously also meant to evoke the cake that he was making:

The ad was pretty infamous in Iceland, and most of the Icelandic audience would have instantly recognized the reference in Hatari’s postcard. It’s actually pretty neat how well the postcard works without knowing that it’s a parody of anything! Hatari are good at what they do.

The really fun thing about this is that the reference adds another layer on top of the postcard video: by this point there’d been negative reactions to Hatari as unpleasant, child-unfriendly and even sinister, and like Bjarni, they react to the negativity by making a video transparently trying to portray themselves as wholesome family men who just love to bake elaborate cakes for their children - only theirs, of course, is extremely tongue-in-cheek.

This video is still one of my favorite Hatari things, and I hope now you can all appreciate it on all the same levels that I do!

[chenopodiumlang]

Það er fyrstur dagur í skolanum mínum í 2020! Ég er mjög glöð að vera hér aftur ✨

[drownedorange]

• Glöð • Glöð Grimsdatter, Queen of Hålogaland, appears in the Norse Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar.

Glöð ("glad" or "glowing embers"; Glod or Glut ) is a daughter of Grímr of Grímsgarðr in Jötunheimr and his wife Alvör, the sister of King Álf the Old of Álfheimr. She is the wife of Logi (not to confuse with Loki) with whom she had two daughters, Eysa or Eisa ("glowing embers") and Eimyrja ("embers").

🌿 This piece inspired by described Glöð was originally done for the Group Exhibition 'From Ash to Flame' at Los Globos, LA 2018. Nib and Ink on Watercolourpaper; original art is sold.

Highres file is available for licencing, feel free to send me an email: drownedorange@gmail.com

[keydraws-1]

Glöð

 A legendary queen who figures in the Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar. She is a daughter of Grímr of Grímsgarðr in Jǫtunheimr and his wife Alvǫr, the sister of King Álfr the Old of Álfheimr. She is also the wife of Logi, also referred to as Hálogi, with whom she had two daughters:  Eysa and Eimyrja. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My take at trying a mood board. After doing one i understand how hard and annoying they can be.

[wickednerdery]

Kinda Wanna Use Einmyria or Eisa in Future...

Maybe as potential love interest(s), but everyone mistakes them for Loki’s twin daughters when they aren’t - they are Logi’s with Glöð - and I’m afraid putting either/both in will result in a thousand “uh, aren’t they Loki’s kids? is this incest?” questions, LOL!!