343: The Other Gods of Norse Mythology

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

There’s so many gods and goddesses in Norse mythology! But sadly not a lot of surviving stories about them. So we did a quick roundup to tell you about some of our favorite stories of the lesser known Vanir and Aesir!

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of war, violence, death, animal attacks, dismemberment, bugs, birth and labor, genitals,

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'll see you in the next video.
0:29.3	Welcome to Spears Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.
0:33.3	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:36.6	I'm Amanda and I'm Julia.
0:38.2	And today I have heard Julia is another installment of It's Norse Of Course!
0:42.2	Who are we going to be learning about?
0:44.0	Well, Amanda, here's the thing.
0:45.6	Now that we are several episodes into It's Norse Of Course,
0:50.3	there are a lot of Norse gods.
0:52.2	There's just a lot of them.
0:53.2	Yes, true.
0:54.6	They're mentioned throughout the poetic and the pros-eddas
0:58.1	and various other historical sources.
1:00.0	But sometimes these gods are only briefly mentioned or mentioned in passing.
1:05.3	They don't have as much background as someone like Odin or Thor or Freya.
1:11.2	And they don't feature as heavily in some of the important stories, like Loki and Balter.
1:16.4	But just because there isn't a lot of material that has been preserved about them,
1:21.2	it doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about them.
1:23.6	So for this episode, we're going to briefly touch on some of the other
1:28.3	important veneer and a seer that we just don't have as much original source material about.
1:33.6	Hell yeah, love it, love around it.
1:35.6	So we're just going to get right into it because we got a couple of gods to get through.
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