NorsePlay.

  Loki: Whattajerkface! In this 1985 CE issue of Thor #353  distinctively   drawn by Walter Simonson , here is laid the device by which Thor: Ragnarok hangs: Marvel Surtur needing to dip his world-burning sword Twilight into the Eternal Flame in order to fulfill the Volva's prophecy of his destiny as the agent which destroys the Nine Worlds. This comic panel has the trio of Gods teaming up to prevent that. And sure, Loki's selfish honesty's amusing by contrast, but when we look at the Norse Lore, we see a God who maliciously cuts off Sif's hair , steals Freyja's prized necklace Brisingamen , cravenly makes a deal with an enemy giant to kidnap Iðunn to deny the Æsir their sustaining apples of youth , carelessly underestimates in betting the Sun, Moon, & Freyja to get Asgard's wall built, has an affair that fathers two cosmic monsters that will kill two major Gods, and is ultimately responsible for killing Baldr, which is the temporal trigger for herald...

This is likely just some pattern-making meme whose attribution has been lost long ago, but now that you've seen it, you can't unsee it, right? And now you can't unthink it either! The provocative NorsePlay here is the global chain of mid-ocean ridges, the largest mountain range on Earth that you never see since it lies deep underwater coiled around our Midgard, could very well be a physical feature correspondence for the World Serpent! This idea isn't too far from the idea of the mountains we do see on land being the bones of Ymir or the sleeping giants. [Jörmungandr from the Edda Oblongata , a 17th c. illuminated manuscript of the 13th c.  Prose Edda .] Gylfaginning tells us how Odin throws the young serpent into the great ocean where it grows over time until it's so long & large that it can bite its own tail when it finally encircles the Earth. The  40,400-mile long ridge darn well could if it stretched itself out over the Northwest Passage, and the ridge doe...

There's definite NorsePlay a'brewing in the Witches Of East End cauldron, a Lifetime channel supernatural drama that ran only two seasons in 2013-4 CE. Behold this rune-laden screenshot of the Gardiner Grimoire : The closest manuscript analog to this show's prop would be the Codex Runicus , a 202-page book from ~1300 CE: Quite unlike a grimoire though the Runicus isn't a collection of dark magical workings , but is mostly a collection of laws. Yeah, I know, not as exciting, but historically wayyyy valuable, and the later period revivalist runes are really a standout in the corpus of medieval manuscripts. But back to our regularly scheduled TV program: The origin lore of Witches of East End is that they're refugees from Asgard , leaving after Odin begins to tighten an iron fist on everyone, including Joanna (Julia Ormond), his headstrong & independent daughter, herself the mother of two headstrong & independent daughters, one most pointedly named Freya (...

  The NorsePlay 1987 CE sci-fi novel  Project: Millennium by Curtis H. Hoffmann apparently uses Norse Mythology's stories as a gloried nostalgia for a staged war in a future where the world of " Muspell's Planet " is bored with peace! I would still bet that Thor's going to clobber that Jörmungandr-gantic spaceship even without his fighting trousers. Have any of you read this, and if so, does it live up to its cover art? Leave your review in the comments below! #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the  Map of Midgard  project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay.   If you have e mployment/ opportunities in  investigative mythology,...