tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14783285.post3677566295741201049..comments2023-10-25T01:02:45.013-07:00Comments on Julie K. Rose: Myths, Folklore & Symbolism: NjordUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14783285.post-27890650267148269322011-04-23T06:27:04.403-07:002011-04-23T06:27:04.403-07:00Nonie - I'm sorry it's taken me so long to...Nonie - I'm sorry it's taken me so long to reply to this amazing comment. Do you have a blog or Twitter I can follow?Julie K. Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16482808163340645506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14783285.post-33873028330339088232011-04-15T10:12:38.390-07:002011-04-15T10:12:38.390-07:00I've always loved the Skadi story because it&#...I've always loved the Skadi story because it's still very tellable and funny for all ages; the giantess finds out the Aesir killed her father, so she straps on her "hjalm ok brynju ok oll hervapn"(sp?) - her helmet and armor and all her war-weapons - to stomp off to Valhalla and demand a husband from Odin because she's been left alone and helpless. <br /><br />(You can't NOT do her in a kinda Klingon bark.) <br /><br />Then you find out that Njord is the only god with clean feet, and even he just happens to get that way from standing in the ocean.... <br /><br />In addition, her complaint about why she can't live by the sea, and his about why he can't live in the mountains, are nearly identical, which also can't help but be funny.<br /><br />And to cap it off with a last fillip of WTF-itude, it's because she's left alone in her mountains at the end that she ties sticks on her feet and invents skiing.<br /><br />(BECAUSE??)<br /><br />I take the Norse religion, past and present, seriously, but this story was clearly not told with a straight face in the first place. <br /><br />And like the best bits of oral tradition, it's utterly retellable because you can't possibly forget it.Nonienoreply@blogger.com