diagnosis
Christian conversion and Christian memory politics stripped the Vikings of much of their mythology, heritage, and historical memory, leaving modern interpreters with a filtered archive.
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Norse Mythology
Norse mythology creates community by instilling courage, loyalty, and resourcefulness rather than merely entertaining listeners.
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normative
Jiang calls Norse mythology probably the greatest cosmological system because it is grand, complete, and unified.
diagnosis
In Jiang's contrast, the Christianized version of Ragnarok softens the Norse ending by letting humans reconstitute the world, while the Norse ending leaves everything dead.
model
Norse mythology creates community by instilling courage, loyalty, and resourcefulness rather than merely entertaining listeners.
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"And as I explained in today's lecture, there are many actually good reasons why you would want to preserve an oral tradition. That's the..."
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"But the main source of our understanding is through Norse mythology. Unfortunately we only have a fraction of their entire mythology. Their mythology, it's..."
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"...All right. So their main memory is, of course, their mythology, Norse mythology. And Norse mythology, I would argue, is the greatest mythology in..."
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"Okay? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. And it's all connected by a world tree called Idrisel. Okay? No one knows..."
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"And these three major gods will kill Imar and from Imar's birth carcass they will build the universe. Okay? That's the beginning. But there's..."
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"...every moment. Okay? And that's the idea. The third thing about Norse mythology is that it's unified. So all the characters everything that happens..."
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"these are the two most obvious examples of how Norse mythology um still impacts our world today. Okay? And as we go along the..."
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"...Okay? So these are the three main values or ideas that Norse mythology is trying to express and instill in the people. Okay? So..."
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"...pantheon that we see in Greek, Roman mythologies, as well as Norse mythologies. Now, the radical break from this tradition was the birth of..."
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"...see. We see this in Greek, Roman mythologies, as well as Norse mythologies. Now, the radical break from this tradition was the birth of..."
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"...a god named Wotan, okay? So Wagner's using a lot of Norse mythology that we learned before from the Vikings, right? Wotan is another..."
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"...who will take the story of Sigard Brumhilde and this entire Norse mythology and construct something called a cycle which is the most famous..."
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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