24-Thor: Whosoever Holds this Hammer

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

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🗓️ 24 February 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Norse mythology, like all mythology, is strange. Thor's hammer is gone. It was stolen...or he just left it somewhere and forgot about it. To get it back, though, he's going to have to do something more difficult than fighting legions of giants. He's going to need to get married.
And there's the origin of poetry, which contains way more men formed from spit than you'd expect for the origin of poetry.
On the creature of the week, seriously, just stay out of the woods. It never ends well. Except when it does, and you find love and learn to put on a puppet show.
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"Direct to Video" by Chris Zabriskie
"An Opus in Bb" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Witch Laws" by Dlay
"Hanami Matsuri" by Fabian Measures
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0:00.0	This week, on the Myths and Legends podcast, it's the much requested wedding of Thor,
0:04.5	from Norse mythology, and unsurprisingly, it contains much more violence than any wedding outside
0:10.0	of Westeros. You'll also see why bad poetry is so bad. It basically comes from Odin's urine.
0:16.4	Then, on the creature of the week, it's a little fairy from Marry Folklore, who, when it's not
0:20.4	trying to kill you, is teaching you how to put on amazing puppet shows. This is the Myths and
0:30.5	Legends podcast, episode 24. Who's so ever holds this hammer? These are stories from folklore
0:41.3	that have shaped our world. Some are incredibly popular stories, you think you know,
0:45.3	but with surprising origins. Others are stories you probably haven't heard, but really should.
0:50.9	Today's story is one from Norse mythology. About the time Thor got married. This is a story
0:57.3	that is in the poetic edda, a group of Scandinavian poems that informs a lot of what we know about
1:01.6	Norse mythology. Its origin might be in the 9th or 10th century AD, but that's a topic of much
1:06.6	scholarly debate. Regardless, this is a myth, so it deals with clearly supernatural elements,
1:12.7	and it's not at all linked to anything historical. It's set outside of history.
1:17.3	Remember that Norse mythology was the religion of the Vikings, and we've only touched lightly
1:21.1	on the mythology. We've seen some of Odin showing up to start some stuff in the Viking episodes,
1:25.7	and then Loki's unfortunate interaction with the horse in the dog episode. But this is really
1:30.6	our first fore-range Norse mythology proper. Norse mythology is incredibly different from the
1:35.7	popular comic book movie adaptation's out right now. I'm going to take a big view and look at
1:39.4	the cast of characters first. There are 9 worlds. Asgard is the home of the Aser, the name of the
1:45.2	group that Odin, Thor, Loki and all of them belong to. Migard or Middle Earth is Earth,
1:52.1	and home of the humans, and just humans. No hobbits or anything. So Valtafar is the home of the
1:58.0	dwarves, and though it really isn't relevant to our story today, the dwarves are not at all the
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