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To: FreedomFarmer
LOL! Thanks, but I'm not a follower of Asatru, just of the Marvel comic book :) Also when I was little I read D'AULAIRE'S NORSE GODS & GIANTS, which was one of my favorite books. Right now I'm reading through the Icelandic epics in relation to some research I'm doing on Tolkien.
41 posted on 04/09/2004 9:25:13 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Shucks, I thought I was talking to a genuine Asatru Gothi.

Skoal!

43 posted on 04/09/2004 9:51:18 PM PDT by FreedomFarmer (In memory of FReeper Harpseal. Yorktown.)
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To: Fedora
D'Aulaire's book is one of my children's favorites.

I object to the Marvel comics Thor on the grounds that he is prettified, sissified, and cleaned up. Asa-Thor was a red-headed, rowdy, short-tempered, mead-swilling, good old boy. He was the god of the smallholder and tradesman, the ordinary working stiff. He would never have spoken in high flown quasi-Biblical language.

While you're reading the epics, check out the Story of Thor's Fishing, and the other short poem dealing with the insult contest he has with a disguised Odin at a river crossing. Gives you a better idea of his personality and character.

49 posted on 04/10/2004 6:25:54 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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