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Fact: Freyja traveled to the bowels of the earth and slept with dwarves to acquire the Brisingamen, and this made Odin very jealous since he is a cantankerous and horny old man. #MythologyMonday 🖼 Patten Wilson / Harry George Theaker
After Odin and his otherwise do-nothing brothers slaughtered Ymir for sh*ts n’ giggles, they then tore apart his body and used it to terraform the cosmos, using his lifeless skull to create the heavens. #FolkloreThursday 🖼
The d'Aulairs, Katherine Pyle & Giovanni Caselli
According to legend, Erik the Victorious resoundingly defeated his nephew Styrbjörn the Strong and the Jomsvikings at Fýrisvellir thanks to having pledged his allegiance to Odin, declaring ”May Odin have you all!” upon the battlefield. #FairyTaleTuesday 🖼 J. Nyström & M.E. Winge
According to The Impudent Edda, Odin, Loki, and Hoenir were all traveling through New Hampshire when the evil giant Thjazi initiated the whole Idunn-kidnapping incident by being a highly antagonistic eagle while the gods were chillaxing. #MythologyMonday https://t.co/zQtO0b6fHC
Brennu-Njáls saga, or Njál's Saga, is an epic tale of escalating violence that culminates with a savage house-burning in southern Iceland, giving Njál the "burnt" nickname that has since lasted through the ages. #FolkloreThursday
The gulon (eller jerff bland norrlänningar): Scandinavia's mystical dog-cat-fox thing (image culled from Fantastic Fearsome Beasts by Paula Hammond). #MythologyMonday
It appears that once again Odin thought it would be a better use of his spear to go cavorting with giantesses than to stay in the Hub and cast it over New York.
Once again Odin chooses to cavort in one-eyed-god-knows-where rather than show up rink-side and cast his spear over Long Island.
I guess Odin got his fill of merry-making with the mountain mead maiden earlier this week because he bothered to show up and cast his spear over New York again tonight.