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* [[The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter]]: The hideous Jotnar (giants) occasionally have beautiful daughters. Naturally in stories involving them they get seduced by Norse gods. Odin (or Thor) was the usual culprit. The guy really got around, though not to the same extent as [[Anything That Moves|Zeus]]. |
* [[The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter]]: The hideous Jotnar (giants) occasionally have beautiful daughters. Naturally in stories involving them they get seduced by Norse gods. Odin (or Thor) was the usual culprit. The guy really got around, though not to the same extent as [[Anything That Moves|Zeus]]. |
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** That was more Thor's area. |
** That was more Thor's area. |
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* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Frey is |
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: While the ''Gylfaginning'' prose Edda says Frey is fair of face, any guy would be "ugly" when compsred to Gerd, the most beautiful woman in the world. |
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* [[Vertebrate with Extra Limbs]] |
* [[Vertebrate with Extra Limbs]]: Odin's horse had eight legs. |
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* [[Volleying Insults]]: Two of the Poetic Eddas (''Harbardsljoth'' and ''Lokasenna'') consist of pretty much nothing ''but'' this. |
* [[Volleying Insults]]: Two of the Poetic Eddas (''Harbardsljoth'' and ''Lokasenna'') consist of pretty much nothing ''but'' this. |
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* [[War in Heaven]]: The Aesir–Vanir War is a key event in Norse myth. Called "the first war in the world", it starts when the Vanir Gullveig enters Odin's hall and is attacked, but its roots seem to extend back to a dispute over which group of gods should get the benefit of mortal tribute and worship (on which the Aesir had a monopoly at the time). A failure to reach an initial truce results in all-out war, with massive armies on both sides laying waste to vast swaths of land. In the end, the Aesir and Vanir both tired of the war and negotiated a new and lasting truce which resulted in the two bands of gods becoming one. Oddly, one other result of the war was the invention of poetry. |
* [[War in Heaven]]: The Aesir–Vanir War is a key event in Norse myth. Called "the first war in the world", it starts when the Vanir Gullveig enters Odin's hall and is attacked, but its roots seem to extend back to a dispute over which group of gods should get the benefit of mortal tribute and worship (on which the Aesir had a monopoly at the time). A failure to reach an initial truce results in all-out war, with massive armies on both sides laying waste to vast swaths of land. In the end, the Aesir and Vanir both tired of the war and negotiated a new and lasting truce which resulted in the two bands of gods becoming one. Oddly, one other result of the war was the invention of poetry. |
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