The ENTIRE Story of Norse Mythology Explained

The ENTIRE story of Norse mythology explained, from the first ice to Ragnarok: Odin, Thor, Loki, Yggdrasil, the nine worlds and the end of the world. Animated mythology and history, told from the medieval sources themselves (and where the movies got it wrong). A cow licks the first god out of the ice. The gods build the sky from a giant's skull. A fly gives Thor's hammer a short handle, Loki ends up the mother of an eight-legged horse, and a wolf is tied up with a ribbon made partly from the sound of a cat's footsteps. And the gods know exactly how it all ends. Here is the whole saga, start to finish: who actually wrote these myths down (Christians, in Iceland, in the 1200s), creation, Yggdrasil, the war of the gods, Odin's sacrifice, Thor's hammer, Loki's children, the death of Baldr, Ragnarok, and the one little book that carried it all home to Reykjavik in 1971. Animated, sourced and narrated by the Sage. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:44 Who Wrote It Down? 1:46 Ice, Fire and a Cow 3:16 Nine Worlds, One Tree 4:29 The First War: Aesir vs Vanir 5:45 Odin's Price 7:11 Thor's Hammer 8:55 Loki's Children 10:52 The Death of Baldr 12:39 Ragnarok 14:15 After the End Sources (key works): Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda (Gylfaginning and Skaldskaparmal), trans. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1916); also trans. Rasmus B. Anderson (1880) The Poetic Edda (Codex Regius poems: Voluspa, Havamal, Grimnismal, Thrymskvida, Baldrs draumar), trans. Henry Adams Bellows (1923) Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla: Ynglinga saga, trans. Samuel Laing (1844) Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum (The Danish History), Book III, trans. Oliver Elton (1894) Anthony Faulkes (ed.), Snorri Sturluson: Edda. Prologue and Gylfaginning (Viking Society for Northern Research, 2nd ed. 2005) University of Copenhagen, Arnamagnaean Collection, "Transfer to Iceland"; Government of Iceland (2020) on the 1971 return of the Codex Regius Thingvellir National Park, "Christianity" (the conversion of Iceland, AD 1000) History.com, "Did Vikings Really Wear Horned Helmets?" Credits: Narration: synthetic voice (Kokoro). Sound effects: Kenney (CC0). Illustrations: AI-assisted (FLUX.1 schnell), reviewed and edited for accuracy. Map data: Natural Earth (public domain); terrain: Terrain Tiles on AWS Open Data (Mapzen/Tilezen; SRTM, GMTED2010, ETOPO1). Fonts: Alfa Slab One, Nunito, IM Fell English SC (SIL OFL). #norsemythology #mythology #history