The horrors of Jotunheim are huge not only in number, but in size. Woe to ye who underestimates the towering terrors of Giant Land, where even the cutest duckling becomes a disciple of death.
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Oh, those clever dwarves. Not only did they make Sif her fantastic golden hair, but they outfitted it with a one of those devices you see on TV late at night that sucks up bugs without killing them.
I’ve been seeing a lot of incredibly fat skrator lately (what they call magpies here in Sweden), so I decided to honor them with a cartoon. You have to respect these hardy, hardworking birds who stuff themselves to the feathers with seeds and worms in preparation for winter. But you also have to wonder… do they ever go overboard?
Now is the time of the year for glorious leaf death and pissed off squirrels. Things are starting to look fantastic here in Sweden. I’m told to enjoy it while it lasts… soon it will be “lights out.” Thursday is the Fall Equinox when the nights become longer than the days.
We’ve all got our own ways of relaxing in this world. The gods are no exceptions. Odin blows humans away with lightning bolts. Loki travels the world in search of sleeze. Freya acquires gold and jewelry. Thor drinks Old Sküll beer. And Freyr… why, he just finds a tranquil and highly reflective lake and stares into his own eyes.
Odin continues his respite in outer space, the perfect place to escape the endless chatter of humans on earth. To some, space is a lonely, desolate place, but to Odin, it’s a glorious realm of sublime beauty. Kind of like a more extreme version of Iceland.
By the way, for those of you religious sticklers out there, I’m still working out the details of how “planet earth” fits into the Norse cosmology of the World Tree and the Nine Realms. Methinks Odin knows a bit more about our magnificent universe than he lets on in the myths…
The sun has been up one hour and Odin has already blessed three wars, slaughtered four giants, and bolted a dozen humans. But what has Baldur accomplished?
Baldur has brokered a peace agreement between two warring tribes, saved a forest that was about to be cut down for a mead hall, and helped a baby rabbit to escape a hunter’s snare.
Odin, needless to say, is shocked. Now a group of turtles are trapped in a fishing net — Baldur, off to the rescue!
