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Norse Mythology 12—14---Bingyu He (Rose) (14: The death of balder (Balder,…
Norse Mythology 12—14---Bingyu He (Rose)
12: The story of Gerd and Frey
Frey
The brother of Freya
the mightiest of Vanir
He was handsome and noble
He was a warrior and a lover
The mortals of Midgard revered Frey
He made the season
He made the fields fertile and brought forth life from the dead ground
His possessions
A sword
Powerful and remarkable that it fought by itself, but this did not satisfy Frey
Gullinbursti
the boar with the golden bristles
created by the dwarf Brokk and his brother, Eitri
It pullled his chariot
It would run through the air and over the water, run faster than many horse, and run even in the darkest night, for its golden bristles shone so brightly. But it did not satisfy Frey
Skidbladnir
A boat made for him by three dwarfs knowns as the sons of Ivaldi
It was the second biggest ship, but it did not satisfy Frey
There was room for all of the Aesir on board
Alfheim
The finest residence, but it did not Satisfy Frey
13: Hymir and Thor's fishing expedition
Aegir
Aegir was the greatest of the sea giants
His wife was Ran, into whose net those who deown at sea are gathered
His nine daughters are the waves of the sea
He had no desire to deed the gods, but he also no wish to fight them
14: The death of balder
Nothing there is that does not love the sun
It gives us the long summer evening, when the darkness never comes
It saves us from the bitter days of midwinter, when the darkness is broken for only a handful of hours and the sun is could and distant
It gives us warmth and life; it malts the bitter snow and ice of winter
It makes plants grow and lowers bloom
Balder
Balder's fave shone like the sun: he was so beautiful that he illuminated any place he entered
He was Odin's second son
He was loved by his father, and by all things
He was the wisest, the mildest, the most eloquent of all the Aesir
He would pronounce judgement, and all would be impressed by his wisdom and his fairness
His home, the hall called Breidablik, was a place of joy and music and knowledge
His wife was Nanna
Their son, Forsete, was growing to become as wise a judge as his father
There was nothing wrong with his life or his world, save only one thing. He had bad dreams
He dreamed of worlds ending, and of the sun and the moon being eaten by a wold
He dreamed of pain and death without end
He dreamed of darkness, of being trapped
Brothers slew brothers in his dreams, and nobody could trust anyone else
In his dream, a new age would come upon the world, and age of storm and of murder
He would wake from these dreams in tears, troubled beyond all telling
Balder lay dead, pierced by the mistletoe dart
Hod
Hod was strong, even if he was sightless
One of the strongest of the gods
Usually Balder was good about making certain that he was include. This time Balder had forgotten him
Hod has killed his brother, but he did not sound sad at all
Norse Mythology 15—16---Bingyu He (Rose)
15: The last days of Loki
Loki had a home on a mountain near the sea
He decided to wait there until the gods had forgotten gum
He had a house on the top of the mountain with four doors, one on each side, allowing him to see danger coming toward him from any direction
During the day Loki would transform himself into a salmon
he would hide in the pool at the bottom of Franang's Falls, a high waterfall that tumbled down the mountainside
A stream connected the pool to a little river, and the river led directly to the sea
The death of Loki
Sigyn, Loki's wife, had watched as her husband was bound in the entrails of their son
The bonds that had once been the entrails of his own son held him tightly
It was a snake, cold of eye, its tongue flickering, its fangs dripping with poison. Its hissed, and a drop of poison from its mouth dripped onto Loki's face, making his eyes burn
Loki screamed and contorted, writhing and twisting in pain
Sigyn looked at her bound husband and at the disemboweled corpse of her wolf-murdered son
They say that Loki will be bound there in the darkness beneath the earth, and Sigyn will be with Loki, holding the bowl to catch the poison above his face and whispering that she loves him, until Ragnarok comes and brings the end of days
16: Ragnarok: The final destiny of the gods
Great battles will take place, all across the world
Brothers will fight brothers
Mothers and daughters will be set against each other
Fathers will kill sons
This will be the age of cruel winds
This will be the age of people who become as wolves, who prey upon each other, who are no better than wild beasts
Twilight will come to the world, and the places where the humans live will fall into ruins, flaming briefly, then crashing down and crumbling into ash and devastation
When the few remaining people are living like animals
The sun in the sky will vanish, as if eaten by a wolf
The moon will be taken from us too, and no one will be able to see the stars any longer
Darkness will fill the air, like ashes, like mist
This will be the time of the terrible winter that will not end, the Fimbulwinter
There will come the time of the great earthquakes
The mountains will shake and crumble
Trees will be fall
Any remaining places where people live will be destoryed
Where Fenris Wolf walks, flaming destruction follows
There will be fooding too, as the seas rise and surge onto the land
The venom from snakes' fangs will spill into the water, poisoning all the sea life. It will spatter its black poison into the air in a fine spray, killing all the seabirds that breath it
There is also what will come after the end
From the gray waters of the ocean, the green earth will arise once more
The sun's daughter will shine in the place of her mother, and the new sun will shine even more brightly than the old, shine with young light and new
The woman and the man, Life and Life's Yearning, will come out from inside the ash tree that holds the worlds together. They will feed upon the dew on the green earth, and they will make love, and from their love will spring mankind