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Kurt Hohmann
@KurtHohmann@writing.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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I see you've already got a few mythology questions, and I'm going down that same road. Valkífor has likely pulled you deep into sagas and eddas, and you were already well versed in MCU, so given that, which storyteller came closer to your preferred version of all things Norse: Snorri or Stan Lee?

I'm well aware your answer could be anywhere from 1 - 100K words 😆

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo
@Ink_Soul@writing.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@KurtHohmann #ScribesAndMakers #TTMD ... set of nine realms that earned a more significant place in the Old Norse world. So, it's very enlightening to have this more scholarly and factual approach to the mythology, even if, of course, when adapting this to various stories, we'll take creative liberties and so on.

He also narrate some of the sagas, such as the famous Völsunga Saga, and the thing I like the most, is how we can see a lot of "Norse traits", talked in prior episodes, in there (2/)

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo
@Ink_Soul@writing.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@KurtHohmann #ScribesAndMakers #TTMD lol, yeah, get ready for a long answer. As I mentioned to you before, I've been listening a lot to that The Norse Mythology guide podcast (fantastic source for anyone interested), and I love how he doesn't simply tell things as we "expect" them. For example, if you search "Nine Realms in Norse mythology," you'll see a bunch of website listening those nine we're familiar with, when in truth, we can't really say those were the nine or even if there was a (1/)

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