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erniet's avatar

All things vowed to Frigg

Baldr they would never harm

Oh cursed mistletoe!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Such a tragedy😔

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erniet's avatar

All the great Norse stories are, aren't they?

Come to think on it, same with Greek or Irish or Sumerian...🤔

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Honeygloom's avatar

Tragedies are way more interesting than like… everything going swimmingly 😂

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erniet's avatar

Yeah but the great tragedies are gut wrenching...Baldr's death, Ariadne abandoned by Theseus, poor Cassandra, Hercules driven made and murdering his own children...and Cuchulainn killing both his best friend and his son...plus the whole Volsung thing...

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Honeygloom's avatar

Have you ever read the Krákumál?

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erniet's avatar

No! I should!

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erniet's avatar

Sworn on holy relic

Devoted to completion

Else damnation waits

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Honeygloom's avatar

Nice!! A classic quest to save the world.

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erniet's avatar

Or a Crusade...😂

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love that going on a crusade was a get into heaven free pass. “Want to save your soul? Come murder and pillage in foreign lands in the name of the King!*”

*all plunder, booty, and treasure is property of The Crown.”

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erniet's avatar

Those were the days! Murder and mayhem in a righteous cause!😂 For both sides!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Aw thanks!

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