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[ofvanaheim]

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[the-pagan-crow]

Deity Spotlight: Freyr

AKA Frey, Yngvi, Ing, Ingwi, Yngvi-Freyr

(Note: Freyr's mother is a highly debated topic. We know that his mother was likely his father's sister, but there is debate over what her name is)

Quick Facts:

Tribe: Vanir

Domain: Fertility, Prosperity, and Peace

Parents: Njörd and Nerthus/Njörun

Sibling: Freyja

Spouse: Gerðr

Child: Fjölnir

Mythologically Backed Facts (VPG)

Freyr is a god of fertility, prosperity, and peace. He was born a Vanir to Njörd and Njörd's sister, but moved to Asgard as a baby after the Æsir-Vanir war. Both his parents were Vanir, with his father being considered ruler of the Vanir. With Gerðr, he had one child, Fjölnir. Fjölnir is said to have become the king of what we now call Sweden, making him the first of the Ynglings, and many people consider Freyr the father of the Yngling dynasty (more on that later).

Lord of Alfheim: When Freyr moved to Asgard as a baby, the Æsir gifted him Alfhiem, realm of the Alfar (elves), as a present when he got his first tooth. While there aren't many attestations about this story, or about Alfheim and the Alfar in general, this is a pretty important part of his mythology. Some people will call him the King or Lord of the Elves.

Father of the Ynglings: Freyr, as the father of Fjölnir, is said to be the father of the Yngling dynasty. To my understanding, this dynasty is the first known dynasty of Sweden, and of Scandinavia as a whole, but they ruled in modern day Sweden. The Ynglings would claim that they were decendants of Freyr, possibly to maintain their rule (although this is slight speculation on my part).

Gullinbursti: Made from gold by the dwarf brothers Brokk and Sindri, Gullinbursti is Freyr's boar. Gullinbursti is said to move through air and water faster than any horse. As a symbol of Freyr's rule over prosperity, Gullinbursti is an important companion of Freyr.

Skídðblaðnir: This magical ship, made by the same dwarves who made Gullinbursti, is Freyr's ship that can hold all the gods and their gear while also being able to be folded up and fit in a pocket. This important item of Freyr's also goes back to his roots as son of a sea god.

Gerðr and Freyr's Love Story: If you're interested in reading about their story, please read our Deity Spotlight about Gerðr located here.

Our Experiences (UPG)

Surtr and Ragnarok: At the end of the world, when the gods must face the Jötunar in Ragnarok, Freyr will face Surtr. However, because he gave up his sword to win Gerðr's hand, Freyr will be slain by the Jötunn.

We have worked with Freyr for several years now. He is a big part of our practice and craft.

He is a very kind deity, but he can push his practioners to be their best selves. He loves nature and agriculture. He likes shades of green, yellow, some browns, and blues.

Like with Gerðr, we'll take nature walks with him. We've offered him sea water, and we've also offered him coins because of his association with prosperity. Also due to this association, we did a good luck spell with him once.

He has a very rich mythology and history, and he is very cool and fun to work with. He can be "quiet" sometimes. For instance, he may not answer questions through tarot unless you word them exactly as you mean. He also might not give as many cards as a "chattier" deity such as Loki.

As always, if we get anything wrong, please let us know nicely! If you have any questions, feel free to ask!!

For further reading, feel free to view this article. Always remember to take things with a skeptical eye and cross reference, but the article has a lot of good information.

[sigyn-foxyposts]

"The children of Asgard: relationship chart"

I was bored and was thinking about how their relationships and dynamics worked! Also it includes two OCS that aren't cannon to actual Norse lore! <33

Characters:

Modi, Thrud and Magni.

Thjalfi and Röskva.

Narfi and Vali/Narvi.

Hnoss and Gersemi.

Fenrir, Jormungandr, Hel.

Forseti.

Fjölnir.

Ocs:

Guan Heigu god of safe-keeping and the son of Heimdall and Guan Yu.

Asha goddess of creativity, daughter of Bragi and Idunn (deceased)

Feel free to use my base :3

[arleniansdoodles]

What about Gerðr? in norse myth she was a giant and Wife of Freyr and she was also mentioned It in God of War Ragnarök by Freya. Does she live in the giants community or is she still missing? Because It would really be interesting to see her, not to mentions that in myths she and Freyr also have a son, Fjölnir, who also is a legendary King in Norse myths.

You hit the mark again, anon!! (if you're the same anon who made the other Giant suggestions XDD and if not, you still hit the mark!) Gerðr was one of my first choices to include in the fic (and in the Ironwood community) because of her marriage with Freyr, and I figured and would give her an interesting dynamic with Freya -- especially given how Gerðr and Freyr's relationship started in the myths, and that Freyr is said to have killed Gerðr's brother, Beli!

In the game, as far as I can tell, Freya doesn't mention Gerðr by name, so I don't know if Odin was pretending to be Gerðr in that tale or just some random beautiful woman loll But I'll wrangle it out a solution eventually! XDDD

I also don't really have any plans for her son, so he'll likely not make a physical appearance in my fic ^^;; But that doesn't mean he doesn't exist; he probably left a long time ago and founded his own kingdom somewhere in Scandinavia!

[psychopomp-and-circumstanced]

Mel B dated an Icelandic businessman called Fjölnir Thorgeirsson and that is absolutely the most made up name I've ever fucking heard.

I may have lost the plot here but Iceland is not a real fucking place.

First they wanted me to believe that Iceland, a real nation on earth, had a dating app to stop accidental incest.

I said ok.. Who am I to query on this tiny island's private matters.

Then they said hey remember that island with the anti incest app? Well hold on to your socks, because baby it's got no crime.

I said, alright, Life is full of the unexpected!

Then they told me mayor of the Nation's capital was a famous sketch comedian.

Ladies and gents and nonbinary themts I know when a joke's being had at my expense.

And now. Now I'm meant to believe that a REAL PERSON, whose occupation is just businessman and nothing else, has the fake cartoon name Fjölnir Thorgeirsson. Really? Does that not sound like someone just spat out a name they thought sounds vaguely Scandinavian??

Fjölnir Thorgeirsson. You cannot convince me that isn't something thrown together cause they were filming a sketch show in 30 minutes and execs axed one of their skits so they cobbled some tenuous bit about Mr. BUSINESS himself, Fjölnir Thorgeirsson, owner of Ice and Land and Associates.

You cannot. This is not a real country. This is a cosmic joke and every citizen of Iceland is in on it and they're mocking us!!

[bugwolfsstuff]

*inhales*

How much do you care about Fjölnir? Because i'm about to send PB to go fight him

Father, when were you going to tell me I had another half-brother?(Fjölnir)

When he wasn’t embarrassing me anymore 😒

@drowninginmead

[aero-sense]

After finishing The Northman, more than ever I wanted to understand the King Aurvandil’s perspective.

Queen Gudrún claimed he had little heart for anyone, yet from what little we saw from him, he was filled with affection towards his family. Aurvandil appeared to love his son, and treated him far more warmly than Gudrún ever did, for reasons later explained. His fatherly treatment of Amleth mirrors how Fjölnir adores and teaches his sons.

Of Fjölnir, I find it ambiguous how Aurvandil felt about their bond before he was betrayed. Aurvandil kept Fjölnir around despite the risk of his bloodline to the throne, and even celebrated the birth of his nephew. He expected complete obedience from Fjölnir as a subject, possibly more so as a “half-breed” always needs to know his place. When Fjölnir confronts Aurvandil, he says, “he beholds his brother’s eyes in amazement…pity you never paid heed a bastard’s eyes before." Yet, did Aurvandil not drink to the accomplishments of his brother the night before?

Lastly, Queen Gudrún, who felt she was “endured”. As we find out later, King Aurvandil kidnapped her, either as a slave or made her into one. Yet he married her. He elevated Gudrún’s status to a queen’s, raising her class, and giving her servants to respect her. When he returns, in his own words, he is "like a battle-dog returning to its master,” placing her above him in public. Was it only because she gave birth to a son, or more?

But I do not mean to pacify the King’s faults. He denied his wife’s offers to sleep in bed, leaving her cold as he longed for battle and war. He placed a dead prince’s necklace around Amleth’s neck. There is nothing clean of his blood soaked hands.

But he still loved. He loved Amleth, he loved his brother, he loved her. And they loved as well. Which brought them to their undoing.

[zoezaw]

Baby bear Amleth was so hurt, aww.

Tbh I love the chemistry between Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgard. I love their performance as a couple in Big little lies, but the Northman turned out to be great as well as Mother and Son lol.

I tried to write a movie analysis, but it turned out I failed to write one but produced a fanfic between Almeth and Queen Gudrún incest relationship smut...

Well, read at your own risk. It's explicit mature content

I will revenge you father, I will save you, mother, I will kill you Fjölnir .

That was his destiny, that was his only religion.

“You were forced upon your mother”

“I never mourned your father”

Those queen’s poisonous words are like a sharp blade plunged toward Amleth’s deep heart.

Amleth’s lips trembled, his eyes filled with tears, shattered like broken glass, tears rolling down his face, he stared at his vicious mother in utter disbelief. The tears running down his cheeks burned like scorching fire, it hurts so badly. 

The way she expressed her pleasure about her new family, her new husband, and her newborn son with his stepfather traumatized him, it disrupted his innocent thoughts of his beautiful kind mother depicted in his mind.

He was just merely a creation by a rapist, forced into her mother's womb, a child spurned by his mother, and a child who was born in this world without his mother's blessing. 

He dreamed about her on endless nights, he missed her. Finally, he showed up in her footsteps. 

All he wanted to do was save her. Free her from hell. 

He was longing for his mother’s warm embrace, he did not expect his mother would repel him and push him away in such a cruel bloody way. He was completely broken down. 

He is abandoned by the world. Even now, his mother abandoned him. 

"Fjölnir ordered your death, with your own mother's blessing. ”

Those words are too poisonous, too toxic. 

He denied, he denied, and denied!

He disbelieved his mother’s words, his mother’s happiness. He told the queen, he was the one who watched his mother being abducted by Fjölnir, and saw his mother struggle and scream.

The queen said she was laughing.

Maybe the mother’s love for her dead husband was not sincere, but to Fjölnir, was even more so. The queen’s deceit is more of a self-deception. Maybe she just wanted to preserve her dignity, she did not want her dignity corrupted by her son as her husbands did to her, seeing her as a weak woman waiting to be rescued.

Or maybe the queen just wants to revenge? She wanted to inflict her anger on her unblessed child created from rape. She wanted to see her rage consume her demonic creation and kill him with her own hands.

She asked him, what he wanted to do here now.

Amleth said, “I shall kill you.”

The queen replied, “You love me, a son loves his mother, and her mother loves her son”

Her words were so vicious but so sweet, she stared closely at his eyes, she could see the anger ravaged across the blue shades of his eyes like a tsunami. With her magical soft hands, she stroked his head, his soft golden hair, his face, like a soothing crying baby with lullabies, in the most beautiful tones, and singing the most venomous songs, to hypnotize her son.

Amleth was in a trance at the moment, he thought he finally received his mother’s love. Little did he know, she was just to befuddle his son’s pure attachment to his mother; she was actually planning to annihilate his mother’s image. 

“If you are so hot for revenge, if you kill Fjölnir , if you kill Thórir, and if you are so untamed to kill my Gunnar, You will be my new kingdom, together we will rule…..” while she spoke softly, her beautiful finger tips are like on a harp, plucking his neck like that, teasing beyond his limit.

She strangled his neck, at this very moment Amleth looked like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. His mother is a butcher now, who controlled upon his faith. His mother destroyed the image of his mother depicted in his mind, crushed his belief as a savior to rescue her mother and as well as a revenger. 

She brought his faith to death, instead, she opened up a door for a path never imagined before.

She looks like a poisonous snake, she wrapped around his neck, her face was close enough to his, her nose tip rubbed on his, he lowered his gaze, and was reluctant to stare into hers, his eyes are closed, his brows are furrowed, his thoughts are in chaos, his heart is struggling with sudden unprepared feelings. She sealed the whispers on his lips, her soft lips enclosed his lips, and she gently pressed his lips, preventing him from retreating, slowly approaching, finally blocking him, guiding him to entangle her lips and teeth. She encouraged Amleth to get rid of his masculine rational thoughts and sink himself in her bewitching sensibility.

His raw nature brought out his reciprocal response to answer his mother’s kiss, he sucked his mother’s lips like a newborn, lips brushing it back and forth paranoidly and passionately. 

He kissed back the evil queen, the mad woman

He envied her love for her new son,

He wants to take this love back

This love is his, is his.

It should have been his.

He surrendered to her. He escaped from the struggles, he craved her madness, and he was willing to fall for her. But at the same moment, he selfishly thought that she can only belong to him. Maybe that incestuous nature has been suppressed for too long, maybe they should be like this, sharing the same bond.

He will save her, himself will be her heaven.

He is her creation, he is a part of her, he is her dead husband's son, and he is more qualified to own ever than his stepfather. 

He thought of this evil woman whom he was madly obsessed with, who hurt him with cold-blooded words, constantly wobbled between love and hate on him.

This vicious woman should be killed, but he is obsessed with her viciousness, he is obsessed with her disgusting nature, he is obsessed with her crazy temperament. He naively thought that just by killing her beloved, he can have her completely, this woman's love.

Amleth opened his eyes, he felt the woman clinging to his pants, dawdling, teasing him with her charming eyes, she was unbuttoning his belt with one hand, panting in his ear.

“My prince, my king, be honest to yourself….”

His sword fell, and without hesitation, he grabbed her neck with great strength, he groaned “say again..”

“Let me bear your child, my king”  she gasped.

She is degrading and vile. 

He flipped her to the ground, pinned her in a missionary position, he droved his desire under her gown harshly, he was wildly yearning for her poisonous curse on him while his desire buried deep inside her womb, he wished to see the rage on her face so eagerly, just like how she snapped at him earlier, like a toxic Egyptian Cobra.

He was born to be punished by her.

 He was disappointed not to have his mother rage and curse, and just to have her mother’s pathetic obscene cries answered his fucking. 

He was completely lost like a child, but furious at the same time. Is this what this woman wanted? To ruin and obliterate her trueborn disgusted first son by her own hands, make a new husband out of his son?

Lust defeated him, lust dazed him.

 His true incest instinct persuaded him to own his queen, his queen is all he longed for. No matter what the cost it is to kill everyone by her side, even her dearest son. He wanted to own her, they can build a kingdom together, they could produce tons of beautiful blonde children,  and continue their incestuous bloodline. They are not destined to love each other but destined to be alike. He is just a part of her, an incomplete part of her. And he is going to complete that part of her. 

If this is what she wanted, then let it be. He is going to put a son in her, just like his father. 

She laughed like a mad witch, while he collapsed on her breast after pumping his last load of seeds into her womb. She finally lured her incestuous creature into a trap, she grabbed a dagger so hatefully, prepared to pierce it through his son’s bare chest. Amleth was shocked and dogged by her attack, unintentionally pointed the dagger toward her, and drove the dagger into her heart. 

He grabbed her in his arms, staring in disbelief at the queen’s pale face with blank, hollow and soulless eyes, questioning her in a monotonous unusual calm tone “why would you do that, why…..”

She gritted her teeth in blood, and hatefully responded  “I am your death”

He did not cry, but tears just uncontrollably slid down his cheek. 

“Yet, I have overcome the death.” He spoke that at the queen’s last breath, eyes filled with pain.

His mother murdered his past. His mother made a man out of him but murdered that little innocent boy in him. 

He never understands his mother’s betrayal, just like his mother doesn’t believe in his naivety.

[hedonistbyheart]

more northman thoughts

I can’t stop thinking about how the ultimate conflict in the Northman was  spiritual and philosophical; illustrated by a clash between Frej the Vana, patron god of Fjölnir and Odin the Asa, patron god of Amleth, our MC.

Frej is a peaceful god of fertility, foreign to the Asir, not just because he is peaceful, but because he belongs to an entirely different family of gods in the mythology as well: a family of gods which were in conflict with the Asir until Frej, along with his dad and sister, all fertility gods, were sent to Asgård to live as proof of peace.

Fjölnir chooses a life as a landowner, a prosperous leader of a farming community, in accordance with the god he pledges himself to, breaking with his family’s firm viking tradition of following the secretive, warmongering ways of Odin. The clash between him and Amleth is as much a clash between the focus on war and conquest as opposed to a focus on farming and expanding territory through trade and production. 

Fjölnir and Amleth represent two differing approaches to ruling and the tension between them is explicitly echoed in the mythological figures of Frej and Odin. 

[mushroomenjoyer]

Reblog to be lured by a dwarf into a stone or perhaps become hag ridden

If you have some time I highly recommend looking up how Fjölnir died, then looking up how his son died, then looking up how HIS son died. It just keeps going

[usernamesuggestionsarefunny]

I hate how the mere fact Gunnar dies in "The Northman". He was such a sweet kid, and the way Amleth defended him was so moving, as if he saw himself as a child in him, the child he was before all the trauma.

I was sort of hoping Amleth would steal Gunnar and raise him as his own along with Olga instead (Just like he wanted to do before discovering her mother was straight up evil). If they made Fjölnir and Gudrún believe they had killed him in order to make them suffer, at least for a while before the climax where they both died, even better! lol

Would it be unrealistic for a child not to care about Amleth killing his parents and brother even if explained the reason why? Would it be unrealistic for that child to grow up loving his adopted parents and siblings in a culture as different and as "muh honor" based as that of the vikings? Would it be unrealistic for that child NOT to seek vengeance and thus break the cycle of violence? Would it break the rules of the saga genre, be unrealistic, too corny for the ~cool and shockingly violent~ Viking movie, too modern-values-way-of-seeing-the-world biased or whatever, blah blah, etc, etc? Don't know, don't care, and all those objections can go suck a dick.

I thought Uhtred (From The Last Kingdom) growing up identifying as a pagan Dane with 0 nostalgia for the Christian God and almost none for the Saxons after said Danes traumatized him and killed his father was unrealistic and dumb as fuck, especially considering he was 13, almost a teenager, not a small kid too young to remember his life with the Christians later on, but I didn't complain because ~vikings cool Christians lame or so the media goes~ , it was fiction, and there was a narrative reason to make the character that way. Same thing could have been said about Gunnar surviving his family's murder and being implied not to have grown up to seek revenge in the end. Edit: Especially considering I call bullshit on the idea that a woman as willing to discard her own children as long as she comes out on top wouldn’t display that same level of carelessness and even abuse in her parenting style, as the movie seems to imply. Being treated better by his new family would realistically have had an influence on Gunnar and how much he would have wanted revenge.

Amleth actively making the decision not to kill his half brother would have been far more powerful than him dying fighting the villain naked in a volcano (As cool, or hot * no pun intended * or amazing, or... accurate to the sagas? idk as that scene admittedly was). Why? Because that kid, Gunnar, was Amleth, an innocent child almost murdered for the terrible crimes of his father and the ambition of his uncle. Imagine the narrative acknowledging that, acknowledging it is wrong to kill children for what they MIGHT do in the future or the fucked up "evil runs in families" excuse even the villains in this movie use WITHOUT falling into the old "killing child murderers and slavers and murderers who gouge people's eyes out makes you just as bad as them or some shit" lame trope.

"Too much of a modern message for an ancient saga", you may say, but why should we care? Olga was a new addition, Amleth as a character was already molded to modern sensibilities in order to make him easier to root for:

1 Part of a slave trading culture, a warrior who raids villages for the purpose of slave trade-not actually shown kidnapping people nor selling them into slavery.

2 It is implied many of the women in the village were raped-it is nowhere implied Amleth has ever done this.

3 Nowhere is Amleth shown mistreating or massacring the villagers (He is just a passive bystander, which is easier for modern movie audiences to gloss over).

4 In fact, as the other men kill and mistreat people, Amleth appears to be somewhere between horrified by what he is witnessing everyone else do and numb to it after years of desensitization.

5 He never seems happy to be killing people, not even in battle.

5 Very respectful to women and all. Even his mother he is unwilling to harm.

6 He WAS planning to spare Gunnar before the evil mother reveal happened. He is protective over him as well.

7 The writers made him kill Gunnar in self defence instead of premeditatedly and he is even disturbed about it (Which I appreciate, actually, and I thought it moving and fitting for Gunnar to go down trying to avenge his mother, BUT it was such an OBVIOUS in-your-face COP OUT it is INSANE. It was clearly done that way to a) get rid of a character the writers were no longer using or thought had to die in order to tie up all loose ends of the revenge plot, b) doing so all without making the protagonist an unlikeable child murderering prick, and c) the fact Olga and her babies were living and the mother and uncle were going to be defeated by the main character made the ending far too hopeful in spite of his death, almost happy, too unlike the realistic, brutal story they were telling, so yet another child living was a no-no, they needed an ~obligatory shocking moment~ and since using rape is thankfully no longer as accepted, making the mc kill a child he was shown to have cared for was * it * this time).

8 He has some cool scenes where he frees slaves and saves a girl from being sacrificed, you can't get more "modern values instead of ancient pagan ones" than that.

Like, let's be real, the ninth century was ruthless. I don't doubt people like Amleth existed, people who deep down were compassionate and yet were surrounded by a normalized/ritualized sort of brutality they found hard to stand up against. I don't doubt they existed, but they must have been very, very rare. Even so, they make for the best protagonists in period dramas imo because I don't want to fucking hate the main character. I don't, I want likeable characters, and personally I ALSO prefer hopeful endings and good messages regardless of how "unrealistic" or "not the same tone" or "not fitting the values of that time" or "modern" or whatever they are.

Anyway, I actually loved the movie, like 9 out of 10, I really did. I didn't even mind the protagonist dying, it was for real just that one part, what they did with that child character in particular that I personally found to be wasted potential, deeply unsatisfying, and disappointing. Like, not even an hour after watching the movie as it usually happens when I have issues with certain scenes, but right as it was happening.

For real, I hope I am not crazy and that fanfic writers see the same thing I do lol

[takaraphoenix]

Your favorite goblin friend has returned from his dark cave to offer a random question that he honestly can't remember if it's been asked and/or addressed. In a PJO crossover, what gods would HttYD were a part of the Norse Pantheon?

I'm like 95% sure I already answered that by writing a story about that before. Though most crossovers put them into the Greek camp, I did write one where they're Norse demigods - A Sea of Fire and Ice!

In it, Jack Frost is a son of Jökul Frosti, Hiccup a son of Odin (war and knowledge), Astrid a daughter of Tyr (sky and war), and Fishlegs a son of Fjölnir (wisdom).

Beyond them, I headcanon Heather as a daughter of Freya (love and beauty, but also a badass fighter), both Snotlout and Gustav as half-brothers through their mom Hariasa (minor war goddess), Ruff and Tuff have to be children of Loki that's just so obvious, Eret as a son of Baduhenna (another minor war goddess), Gobber as a son of Alviss (a dward and smith), Gothi as a daughter of Eir (healing).

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Northman (2022)

The Northman sounds like a straightforward revenge story but the simple premise is deceitful. This is an emotionally complex epic of revenge. Marvelously shot, expertly directed and with a first-rate production that completely immerses you into its brutal world, this film is hard to shake.

In AD 895, King Aurvandill (Ethan Hawke) is murdered by his bastard brother Fjölnir (Claes Bang). As young Amleth watches his mother, Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman), taken away by his uncle, he swears revenge. Years later, Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) disguises himself as a slave and infiltrates Fjölnir the Brotherless’ village. With the help of fellow slave Olga of the Birch Forest (Anya Taylor-Joy), he prepares to make the new king pay for what he did.

You can see what I mean when I say this story sounds familiar. Bad uncle steals the throne. Good son goes away, grows up and comes back years later to get it back. In such stories, the hero and the villain are clearly defined. Not so much in The Northman. When we meet Amleth as a man, he and his fellow Vikings attack a village, massacre the few soldiers defending it (we even see Amleth fully embrace his “bear-wolf” identity by biting off chunks of a man’s neck), take some of the men and women as slaves, steal everything there is of value and lock all of the elderly and children in a building before setting it ablaze. They do it all with the same amount of remorse as your average Russian soldier stationed in Ukraine. This is our hero.

What we would call barbarism is normal for this world. All King Aurvandill talked about to his son was his desire to die at the edge of a sword. Only then would he be whisked away by a valkyrie and enter Valhöll (Valhalla)… where he would spend eternity alongside the people who murdered him, since he told Amleth to avenge his death. Not only is it the will of men to slay each other, but it’s also the will of the gods: a prophecy by a Seeress (Björk) leads Amleth to a magical sword and more than once the supernatural intervenes in his favor.

As his retribution draws near, Amleth begins considering the future. His whole life has been about the past, about avenging his father and rescuing his mother. After magically speaking with his old friend (Willem Dafoe as Heimir the Fool), he realizes his victory is a foregone conclusion… but then what? Will he settle down with Olga only to be slain some day by Fjölnir own son, his half-brother? Is he even capable of settling down when he’s spent his entire life cultivating hatred? And then, just when you think that maybe he would be better off just leaving Fjölnir alone… you’re reminded that the current king is just as savage as his nephew. These people deserve each other. Best to just sit back and let their drama play out as intended, which puts you in the same position as Odin and the other gods.

The Northman is relentless and uncompromising. It's a distinct, stylish vision but not because of unnecessary flourished or weird choices. It’s the way writers Sjón & Robert Eggers mix complex themes with mythology that make The Northman feel like something completely new. It ain’t for the faint of heart but that’s exactly what makes it so brilliant. (August 9, 2022)

[sigyn-foxyposts]

Yes I am doing the 2nd generation of the norse gods, so their children or just the younger kiddos! Please I know these aren't all of them :')

And remember that to me, they're all around the same age and grew up together and the couples I've written up is what I personally see working out. Sorry Narfi 😭

Plus this is just for fun and I like to experiment!

Here's a small recap on who they are and how I kinda see them too! :))

🤍Roskva and Thjalfi:

Thjalfi and Roskva, were the children of peasant farmers. When Thor and Loki are invited to stay a night at their house and Thor shares with the family the meat of his goats, which he can resurrect provided that their bones are intact. Thjalfi sucks the marrow from a leg bone from one of the goats. When Thor finds out he becomes enraged. As a result, Thor maintains Thjalfi and Roskva as his servants. Later Thjalfi proves to be a scary good runner!

I personally think Thor after taking in the siblings treat them as equals and so does his family! They'd probably get along with Thor's children too, as I'd imagine they're around the same age. Thjalfi is a good brother to Roskva and is protective of her! Which Roskva appreciates and finds annoying. Thjalfi makes himself seem more braver than he truly is too. (Reference to when he got chased by she-wolves)

💙Magni, Modi and Thrud:

Magni, Modi and Thrud are the children of Thor, all sharing Thor's strong traits and some red hair! Modi and Thrud's mother is Sif while Magni's is the joy in Jarnsaxa! Thrud is a possible valkyrie, a female warrior as her name was mentioned in a list of the valkyries. Magni only at the age of three years old, was said to be the only Aesir god strong enough to lift the jotun Hrungnir's leg off of Thor. As a reward for his strength, Hrungnir's horse Gullfaxi is gifted to Magni by Thor.

I can imagine that the sibling dynamic is chaotic between these three. It consists of a lot of drama, all thanks to Modi! But let's not be too harsh on the guy, I'd imagine Modi is jealous of his brother and sister, especially Magni because he is "the favorite". Magni not wanting any trouble and being responsible tries to fix the conflicts his brothers sourness makes. And Thrud, Thrud was a wild child, she definitely had her fair share of fights. But in the end they all love each other as siblings!

💚Narfi and Vali:

Narfi and Vali are the sons of Loki and his wife Sigyn. They are minor deities, with nothing to their characters, but modern people say Narfi is the god of wrongdoings and Vali possibly the same, if not something else. The only story we have is of their fate, which is tragic! Narfi met a grisly end when the the gods as a punishment for lokis crimes, turned Vali into a wolf, who then tore Narfi apart. The now wolf Vali ran off to Jotunheim.

I've always imagined Vali being the one always in charge of what they would do. He would always be protective of Narfi and like Thrud a wild one! He loves causing mischief like his father but stops when things get too far. Narfi was always shy and hiding behind his brother, he barely spoke but that didn't mean he didn't want to join in on the fun!

💛Forseti:

Forseti is the son of Baldr and Nanna and he is the god of justice and reconciliation. It's stated that his is the best of courts and all those who come before him leave reconciled. This suggests that he is skilled in mediation and is in contrast to his fellow god Týr, who "is not called a reconciler of men.".

I'd imagine that forseti is that calm and collected kid, that is also very clever and smart! Basically the well behaved and perfect kid a parent could ask for. He most definitely sees Tyr as a role model and is better at helping out with conflicts between his friends. Sorry Magni we know you tried.

🤎Fjölnir:

Fjölnir is the son of Freyr and his wife Gerdr. Later in life he became a legendary king of Sweden and he was claimed as the progenitor of the Swedish Yngling dynasty, reigning from Gamla Uppsala. Fjölnir was said to have drowned in a vat of mead while visiting Peace-Fróði, a similarly-legendary king of Zealand, the Danish island. Fjölnir was then succeeded by his son Sveigdir.

I'd imagine that little Fjölnir over here was quite erogant, but never with bad intentions. He was geniuanly very kind and shares a common trait with Vali and Thrud, being a wild child! He was for sure a brave one of the group.

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The Northman, Robert Eggers’s ostensible rebarbarization of Hamlet, just proves G. Wilson Knight correct in his great essay on the Shakespearean tragedy, “The Embassy of Death”: if we detach ourselves from the rhetorical charisma with which Shakespeare invests his tragic hero, we will easily see that the usurped prince is the villain of the piece, a pestilential visitor of doom upon a civilized court all the better for having dispatched his warlike father.

In The Northman, the almost campily willful Gudrun tries to explain Knight’s argument to her son Amleth—the anti-charismatic and anti-intellectual black hole around which Eggers’s film spins—but he doesn’t let her testimony deflect him from his destiny. That she was a slave and he the product of his father’s rape can’t alter the cosmic legitimacy of his lineage, a vision of the arborescent royal line vouchsafed to him in childhood by the jester-seer Heimir. (Again contrast Hamlet: try to imagine him caring about progeny. He can’t even stop himself from driving his girlfriend to suicide after having possibly impregnated her—though this, admittedly, is only my own “fan theory” of Ophelia’s madness.) 

Amleth, anyway, improves upon his father: to voyage to Iceland to attain his revenge, he makes himself a slave, and attracts a fellow-slave to him on his own merits to mother his contribution to the family line. With this Olga, a Slavic earth-mother witch-woman, he even has a somewhat anachronistic and therapeutic heart-to-heart about his problems getting close to people, therefore representing an advance in consciousness, if not to Hamlet levels of self-awareness. 

Ostensibly, this hint of improvement is the limit of progress beyond which the film won’t venture, however. The vengeful ex-slave and rape victim Gudrun’s rather “modern” voluntary amative alliance with her bastard brother-in-law Fjölnir—a figure of greater charisma and inwardness than his usurped nephew—must die at Amleth’s hands and at the Gates of Hel for the rightful line to be restored. The critics who have labeled the film “reactionary” are correct to that extent. 

But the fated, fatal plot per se provides no real pleasure, and the hero, as I’ve said, is a blank, a brooding meathead. All our interest is in the landscapes—and the women: not only the seductive Gudrun or the sensitive Olga, but also Björk’s beautifully nightmarish blind priestess and the Valkyrie whose flight screams, rather than sings, our unsweet prince to his rest. Eggers’s filmography so far has been warily worshipful (sometimes in horror’s guise) of the feminine divine, the chthonic nature goddesses, and here they encompass the whole masculine tragedy. That Amleth makes his compact with these bubbles of earth—and honorably, without guile, force, or treachery—fits him to be our hero.

Whatever all this has to do with Eggers’s literary sources will have to await a more informed observer than me. I read as much Saxo Grammaticus as was excerpted in the Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet; I also read one Icelandic saga, Egil’s as I recall, about 20 years ago, but it made little impression, and I even remember thinking that despite the protestations of luminaries from W. H. Auden to Seamus Heaney to Milan Kundera, the sagas just didn’t seem (to me) as compelling, as archetypal and richly envisioned, as Homer and the Bible. But maybe I was wrong. (The Nordic fascist or white nationalist type will see this, I’m sure, as some kind of Mediterranean-Latin-crypto-Semitic “racial” bias on my part.) A decade ago, I even read one novel by Eggers’s co-writer Sjón, The Blue Fox, but I thought its fabulist tone was too cute. A filmmaker, anyway, has no right to hurl a syllabus at us; the images and the drama either have oneiric authority or they don’t. The Northman’s mostly do. 

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Jaime and Brienne: legend and Norse mythology

Of course Jaime in asoiaf represents Tyr, but not only, many characters are several gods, Jaime, besides Tyr is also Freyr. Freyr had a twin sister, Frei (do not take the mythology 100% and do not match it to the character this way, because it will not work out), Freyr married the beautiful daughter of the giant Gymir, Gerda, at first Gerda did not want to marry Freyr, only when Skirnir threatened Gerda that she agreed (there are different versions of these threats, so I will not quote them, especially since they do not have a reflection here), with time she fell in love with Freyr and bore him a son, Fjölnir, who was a mighty king, and under his rule the crops were abundant and there was peace, according to Grottasöngr, Fjölnir lived from the 1st century BC to the beginning of the 1st century CE, i.e. about 100 years, let's compare it with the legend from the Compendium of the World of Ice and Fire:

,,In the beginning, the priestly scribes of Yin declare, all the land between the Bones and the freezing desert called the Grey Waste, from the Shivering Sea to the Jade Sea (including even the great and holy isle of Leng), formed a single realm ruled by the God-on-Earth, the only begotten son of the Lion of Night and Maiden- Made-of- Light, who traveled about his domains in a palanquin carved from a single pearl and carried by a hundred queens, his wives. Lor ten thousand years the Great Empire of the Dawn flourished in peace and plenty under the God-on-Earth, until at last he ascended to the stars to join his forebears.”

Returning to Freyr, unfortunately there is nothing for free, so by helping Skinir in marrying Gerda, Freyr had to give Skinir his own sword (compare this to Jaime Brienne's sword..., quite similar..., a sword for marriage... .)