Exploring Norse Mythology: The Kidnapping of Idunn

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  • čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
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Komentáře • 95

  • @CheesyKnobby
    @CheesyKnobby Před 6 lety +178

    Lesson: To impress a girl, play tug of war with a goat using your plums.

  • @calebwilliams4213
    @calebwilliams4213 Před 6 lety +90

    Oh Loki. You never cease to amaze me

  • @Daemon.Cassius.blackfyre
    @Daemon.Cassius.blackfyre Před 6 lety +99

    I wanna see the MCU have loki proform that tug-o-war against a goat in the next avengers

    • @PedroApp
      @PedroApp Před 3 lety +1

      Reality: death in 5min

  • @onelividguardsman5681
    @onelividguardsman5681 Před 6 lety +75

    I wonder if Marvel will ever use that goat part in a movie

  • @lavendxrdreams780
    @lavendxrdreams780 Před 4 lety +12

    He attacc
    He protecc
    But most importantly
    He brought Idunn bacc

    • @philleW12
      @philleW12 Před 3 lety +2

      But mor importantly than that
      He played tug-o-war wih his sacc

  • @itmademesignup9508
    @itmademesignup9508 Před 6 lety +50

    They say Loki is a trickster...He seems more of a four-year-old lunatic with superpowers...tying his junk to a goat and having a tug of war, shaving Thor's wife's head for no particular reason...He's more of a completely impulsive loon than anyone tricksy or malicious.

    • @hoodpinproductions307
      @hoodpinproductions307 Před 4 lety +3

      Baldur survives Ragnarak because Loki hid him in Hel. It was a necessary part of the plan.

    • @Lu11abi
      @Lu11abi Před 4 lety +6

      He is the unpredictable force of Change, which often brings hardship, but always has the capacity to make those hardships sources of extraordinary treasure that would otherwise not be accessed.
      He is one of the greatest aspects of humanity.

    • @shadenox8164
      @shadenox8164 Před 2 lety +1

      The funny thing is Odin is every part a trickster god himself, just less chaotically so,

  • @kordelshorgar122
    @kordelshorgar122 Před 6 lety +35

    and this is the story of how a bird ruined the family picnic...

  • @stevenc.6502
    @stevenc.6502 Před rokem +1

    Thiazi: I'm a talking eagle who can do magic. The Aesir: That doesn't seem suspicious at all.

  • @22beyonder
    @22beyonder Před 6 lety +51

    Dam it Loki.

  • @jacquesfrancois4275
    @jacquesfrancois4275 Před 6 lety +30

    7:31 Are you implying there's something relatable about tugging on a goat with your testicles?

  • @johngodfreymalig2328
    @johngodfreymalig2328 Před 5 lety +6

    "Loki tied one end of a rope around the beard of a goat," Mhmm?
    "And the other end around his testicles," Ok, what the fuck?
    "The goat and Loki proceeded to tug back-and-forth, each squealing loudly," WHAT THE FU-

  • @lostmarimo
    @lostmarimo Před 6 lety +49

    They must have been on some good shit to write all of these weird ass stories

    • @Paramongol
      @Paramongol Před 6 lety +1

      Lost Marimo but hey old religions are weird af

    • @ME-ki7vq
      @ME-ki7vq Před 6 lety +8

      THey are usually even weirder in their origanal languages due to translation errors, and basically all old religious stories are just people trying to explain things they dont understand.

    • @lostmarimo
      @lostmarimo Před 6 lety +7

      Yeah it's pretty fun to try and think of what they saw, to write it in such a weird way.
      Maybe Loki's eagle suit was a jet pack or something. perhaps the jotuns eagle form was just a small ship. or maybe it is all fiction, that someone who was bored wrote one day.

    • @Daimon-X
      @Daimon-X Před 6 lety +6

      Beer, Mjød and a sh*tload of magic mushrooms.

    • @Gjellebel
      @Gjellebel Před 6 lety +7

      Just wait untill the one where Thor marries a Jotun while dressed as Freia (or some other goddess , I can't remember) and then goes full red wedding on everyone. Classic.

  • @subwoofer6726
    @subwoofer6726 Před 3 lety +4

    I swear Norse mythology feels like a long weed trip at times or stories told only by drunk men at a bar.
    You have no idea what or why the fuck things are happening, but you want to keep listening.

  • @hitrapperandartistdababy
    @hitrapperandartistdababy Před 6 lety +31

    Only Nordic gods become perplexed when they cant cook xD

    • @ALTAI38
      @ALTAI38 Před 4 lety +1

      @RavnDream well you can eat everything that is fresh and raw, except chicken. İf your grandparents ate raw flesh their whole life, then you should not have any problem doing the same thing. You would get used to it eventually.

  • @ShadowLibrarian
    @ShadowLibrarian Před 6 lety +13

    Are you going to do a series on Japanese mythology, it's a little similar to Norse, their God's seem a little more human than others.

  • @jacquesfrancois4275
    @jacquesfrancois4275 Před 6 lety +25

    Imagine being the first ancient proto- Norse guy to come up with all these wacky stories

    • @voivodadracula1936
      @voivodadracula1936 Před 6 lety +4

      They develop over time...

    • @christinewebber7924
      @christinewebber7924 Před 5 lety +1

      More possible then the abrahamic death cult mythologies

    • @christinewebber7924
      @christinewebber7924 Před 3 lety +1

      @Drakon590 three abrahamic death-cult Islam Judaism Christianity all started with in one city be in Jerusalem. These three religions were tribal religions who we're really only intended to be practiced by people who lived in the area the religions spread through Slaughter Conquest and actual bigotry consider in the three religions have outright lead wiped out entire population centers. But let's talk about bigotry because I called out your b******* religion. Muhammad was a pedophile Jesus was a delusional schizophrenic who traveled with a prostitute in 12 single men likely a mass or G group Judaism is even more batshit crazy as it was started by a schizophrenic who heard inanimate objects talking to him with regularity.

    • @user-rv4wn5qk7q
      @user-rv4wn5qk7q Před 2 lety +1

      @@christinewebber7924 What a bunch of bullshit you just said trying to sound smart. Honestly, the best of humility is to shut up when you don't know about a subject and is being biased, so please, do it and be a person of humility.

  • @souskai
    @souskai Před 6 lety +14

    Skadi 💍❤

  • @SA-mo3hq
    @SA-mo3hq Před 3 lety +2

    Loki's rep in the wider public consciousness - master schemer and manipulator
    Actual Loki - the haver of the worst ideas and even worse luck

  • @elgranlugus7267
    @elgranlugus7267 Před 5 lety +5

    This tale is evidence that Thjazi and Idunn are the equivalents to Hades and Persephone, and Cú Raoi Mac Dáire and Bláthnat in irish legends.
    Basically, the God who rules the underworld (Thjazi, Cú Raoi, Sucellus and Hades) kidnaps the goddess of seasons (Idunn, Bláthnat, Nantosuelta, Persephone) thus creating an unbalance in nature. The god of the underworld faces someone who opposes such kidnapping (Cú Chulainn, Loki) but overwhelms him or her, and still takes the goddess to his realm.

  • @misszee007
    @misszee007 Před rokem

    I thought Santa Monica Studios was going for the popular Trap look by giving Heimdall gold teeth, but turns out that’s out of his lord 😂❤

  • @Daimon-X
    @Daimon-X Před 6 lety +9

    Idunn is like Hebe

    • @icedmilktea5572
      @icedmilktea5572 Před 4 lety +2

      Yeah except i think Idunn has apples while Hebe has a fountain(?)

    • @glamorgirl911
      @glamorgirl911 Před rokem +1

      and they are both married to gods that are the sons of the chief god like bragi> odin heraclees> zeus

  • @sigynfoxy69
    @sigynfoxy69 Před 4 lety +2

    at least loki ended up having kids :,)

  • @TheTechnoDemon
    @TheTechnoDemon Před 3 lety +1

    Can you do one on Freyr? Prior to a lot of his functions being absorbed into Odin?

  • @davidbrasher3595
    @davidbrasher3595 Před 3 lety +1

    I love the Wagner music playing in the background!

  • @UCannotDefeatMyShmeat
    @UCannotDefeatMyShmeat Před 3 lety +1

    The gods can die of old age?
    Good think they only use a lower case g

  • @DrunkenCoward1
    @DrunkenCoward1 Před 6 lety +2

    Just a quick question, have you done any videos on Greek history/mythology yet?

    • @jjakkal_
      @jjakkal_ Před 6 lety +1

      The Drunken Coward the closest thing he has worked on is his cthulu mythos i believe he hasn't done much else related to mythology or greak mythology

  • @warmpond
    @warmpond Před 5 lety +2

    Why is Loki even allowed in asgard with all the shit he causes

  • @DavidSmith-iq6zu
    @DavidSmith-iq6zu Před 6 lety +1

    Yo-tun-hime God fuck.

  • @shadenox8164
    @shadenox8164 Před 2 lety +2

    "Must make her decision based solely on the god's feet." Finally something for the foot fetishists.

  • @xono9848
    @xono9848 Před 6 lety +13

    NOTIFICATION SQUAD?!!!!!;

  • @kasaibouF29
    @kasaibouF29 Před 2 lety

    So Skadi wasn't trick into killing her father in the actual myth.

  • @yomama5368
    @yomama5368 Před 6 lety +2

    Still a better- awww

  • @crowsbaneful
    @crowsbaneful Před 6 lety +1

    Hail Odin!

  • @jackiesantos2121
    @jackiesantos2121 Před 6 lety +1

    The Norse pantheon is filled to human for these type of Gods wonder what else they have human flaws

  • @wolfgangcalvin
    @wolfgangcalvin Před 6 lety +2

    Nice profile pic i like the yellow

  • @solahaze8948
    @solahaze8948 Před 3 lety +1

    What is it with giants demanding to marry goddesses in Norse Mythology?

  • @ME-ki7vq
    @ME-ki7vq Před 6 lety +2

    try saying it like iidun with a long i instead off iddunn
    , otherwise great vid

  • @sidney7129
    @sidney7129 Před 4 lety +1

    so this is the story that rick riordan take reference for magnus chase.. haha Idk why but this stories a bit absurd to me

  • @madalinionut1748
    @madalinionut1748 Před 6 lety +4

    Yaaaaaaaayyyyyy!

  • @leafpratt
    @leafpratt Před 6 lety +2

    Eth is an th sound not d

  • @nasalimbu3078
    @nasalimbu3078 Před 4 lety +1

    Su ta smoking hood

  • @sleepysartorialist
    @sleepysartorialist Před 6 lety +3

    Her name is pronounced like the christian eden.

    • @christinewebber7924
      @christinewebber7924 Před 5 lety +1

      Close edoon would be a modern pernunciation

    • @michaeltipler5674
      @michaeltipler5674 Před 4 lety +1

      He mispronounced alot of names, but ibet he's doing better than you are me,

    • @brumallupine1961
      @brumallupine1961 Před 2 lety

      It's actually pronounced 'eh-thunn', and the 'th' is prounounced like th in the word that.

  • @catspaw3092
    @catspaw3092 Před 6 lety +7

    Isn't it sad & ridiculous that the Norse gods depend on a fruit to remain young & powerful while the Greek gods are just straight up immortal?

    • @catspaw3092
      @catspaw3092 Před 6 lety +2

      Indeed, they look down on mortals they have no idea how monstrous mortals can be why would we want to worship these so-called deities?

    • @hitrapperandartistdababy
      @hitrapperandartistdababy Před 6 lety +8

      Not really. Its fictional and interesting to learn about

    • @hentaihaven2843
      @hentaihaven2843 Před 6 lety +2

      Well if you count kratos, no there not. But yes Greek gods are a lot more stronger then norse.

    • @itmademesignup9508
      @itmademesignup9508 Před 6 lety +14

      They're not, though. They were because of Ambrosia. They even made Heracles and Psyche immortals also by feeding the stuff to them.

    • @user-su8wo4cc4u
      @user-su8wo4cc4u Před rokem

      The Greek gods depend on their holy ambrosia and nectar

  • @MidoriNatsume
    @MidoriNatsume Před rokem

    "Marvel ruined Norse Mythology"
    Meanwhile this story sounds like a group of drunk DnD players fucking around.
    And I say this in the most positive way possible, I loved the story.

  • @wyrdwildman1689
    @wyrdwildman1689 Před 5 lety +1

    Neil Gaiman has no business speaking of Norse or any European lore. That which he has put forth should be warily dissected.

  • @karenhebert6283
    @karenhebert6283 Před 5 lety +3

    Loki... You never cease to amaze me