Episode 39 - The Worship of Good and Evil

<p>Are the gods the good guys or the bad guys? On that note, did ancient Norse people ever worship the jötnar? This week we take a look at what it really means to be a god in the Norse mind. Two surprising sources will help inform our analysis: a horse phallus preserved in herbs and an Icelandic volcano. Don&#39;t miss it!</p><p><strong>Sources:</strong></p><ul><li>Giants” by Margaret Clunies Ross in Pre-Christian Religions of the North volume II, 2020</li><li>“Cyclical Rituals” by Jens Peter Schjødt, also in Pre-Christian Religions of the North volume II, 2020.</li><li>“Ritual responses to catastrophic volcanism in Viking Age iceland: Reconsidering surtshellir cave through bayesian analyses of AMS dates, tephrochronology, and texts” by Kevin Smith, et al in the Journal of Archaeological Science volume 126, 2021.</li><li>“Lausavísa from Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar in Heimskringla 1” by Diana Whaley in “Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to circa 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1.” 2012.</li><li>“The Poetic Edda”, transl. by Carolyne Larrington, 2014</li><li>“The Prose Edda”, transl. by Anthony Faulkes, 1995</li></ul><p><strong>Contact:</strong></p><ul><li>Write in: waelhraefn (at) gmail (dot) com</li><li>Join the Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/Nvw5hmkRsW">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/Nvw5hmkRsW⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></li></ul><p><strong>Music:</strong></p><p>Celebration by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</p>