Norse Mythology/Shout-Out

Many more modern works have Shout-Outs to Norse Mythology.

The Valkyries have their own page.

Anime and Manga

 * Ah! My Goddess features the Norns. Whether they're the actual Norns or Norns In Name Only depends on how one reads both the eddas and the manga. (The various anime tend to Flanderize Verthandi/Belldandy.)
 * Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok: Loki In Name Only.

Comic Books

 * The Marvel Comics characters Thor and Loki. Thor is In Name Only - they didn't even get his hair colour right - while Loki has his evil side turned Up to Eleven and his good side minimized.
 * Bill Willingham's Elementals also had a Thor, who was portrayed as being closer to the Eddas than Marvel's Thor was. It was also mentioned that this Thor survived Ragnarok, which humans called World War II... and he was quick to explain to the team's Jewish member that what his worshippers did had nothing to do with him.

Fan Works

 * Asgard and the Norse pantheon are the sole real heaven and deities in Undocumented Features. One of the children of the original self-insert characters is actually the Norse god of Mecha.
 * Valhalla and the Norse pantheon have been confirmed (to readers, at least) to exist in The Teraverse.

Literature

 * Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman - a remarkably faithful retelling of the eddas.

Live-Action Television

 * A Thor who was about as divorced from his mythological roots as he could possibly be and still be a vaguely Marvel property appeared in the 1988 TV Movie The Incredible Hulk Returns.

Music

 * Ride of the Valkyries, from The Ring of the Nibelung

Theatre and Opera

 * The Ring of the Nibelung

Western Animation

 * What's Opera, Doc?, at one remove via its homage to The Ring of the Nibelung.


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