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The myth of Loki s monstrous children - Iseult Gillespie

The myth of Loki s monstrous children - Iseult Gillespie

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Odin, the king of Asgard, was plagued by nightmares. Three fearsome figures haunted his dreams: a massive, writhing shadow; a shambling, rotting corpse; and worst of all, a monstrous beast with a deadly bite. Though their true forms were unknown to him, he could tell they were related to Asgard s most persistent problem: Loki. Iseult Gillespie details the myth of Loki's secret children Jaqen: In the version I read it was a little more tragic for Tyr. He knew he was betraying his friend which is why he volunteered. He was punishing himself and when Fenrir knew he had been tricked he looked at Tyr with a sad expression and then Try gave him a nod as to let him know to bite his arm off so Fenrir did so reluctantly
Date: 2022-01-07

Comments and reviews: 9


Talk about Self Fulfilling Prophecy. His attempts to avert his fate by mistreating Loki s spawn led to the destruction of the world and the deaths of many gods, known as Ragnarok.
In their defense, Loki children have very good reasons to hate them,
1) The snake (I can t write his name, sorry) was acting in self defense and they throw him into the sea
2) They give Hela a thankless job and people were afraid of her because of her appearance;
3) Fenrir was betrayed by the gods, even by his best friend

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Reading through the comments finding the most talked one is of how Loki's children were victims to Odin's prejudgment. It is true that better choices could've been made, but it must be known as this they where always destine to trigger the ending of the world. But better treatment and trust could have lessen the eventual conflict.
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1) Why does Odin have two eyes? 2) Why is Hel s dead side not blue? 3) Why are they dressed more like marvel characters than the mythical versions? 4) Why is it not acknowledged that Tyr knew he betrayed Fenrir and allowed Fenrir to bite his hand off because he knew he deserved it?
I don t like this video much.

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So basicly.
This tale take tells us that if your grandchildren could litterally pose an end to you and the world.
The only solution would be to threat them with precaution and care rather to lead your actions to total disaster.
Fenrir didn t deserve to be chained by his own grandfather.

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in other sources it actually said that there was the feast with the cauldron which they took from the giant family. Bassicly loki crashed it and they eventually captured loki and turned his normal children into monsters, they started off normal. This video was extremly oversimplified but still. Good job.
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I find Fenrir s myth to be quite hard-breaking. He wouldn t have agreed to play these power tests at all if Tyr wasn t there. And then Tyr is the only one who volunteered to offer his arm, paying the price of betrayal his wolf friend himself.
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sooooooooo, basicaly: odin doomed himself and realised his visions by being so paranoid of the visions he punished those in the visions before they were even wanting to try to do anything?
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Really makes you feel for the characters you thought were bad guys but were really the victims. Like the live action Maleficent film. I was always fascinated by Jormangandr
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I really love and appreciate that the video wrapped all the way around to show how Odin just hurt himself so much over this. Poor All-Father and his unwilling victims.
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