Everything You Need To Know About The Viking God Heimdall

If you know anything about Heimdall, it's either because you're already a Norse Mythology fan or because you know him from the Marvel movies - aka you've seen Idris Elba portray him. Well... there is a lot of truth contained within Marvel's Heimdall, but it only scratches the surface of the mighty god. What the MCU does get right though is Heimdall's importance: This guy is the guardian of Asgard, watcher of the Bifröst, and... watcher of all things to be quite honest.
Norse Mythology's Heimdall also plays a major role in Ragnarök, has a forever feud with Loki, and also... had 9 mothers. No, not in the spiritual sense... literally 9 women gave birth to him, because his father Odin was on one. It's as confusing as it sounds, and it's a good way to kick of this episode on Heimdall The Watcher, Norse Mythology's sentinel, who has all the tools any passionate stalker would envy him for:
Episode 6 Of Keeping Up With The Norse Gods: A Stalker's Wet Dream - Heimdall
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Notes:
Oh, Norse Mythology: How scattered you are. It's not only that the ancient Northmen (or is it Norsemen?) weren't exactly huge on documenting everything, it's also the fact that time wastes all, and Christians don't exactly like competition when it comes to beliefs... so over the many many centuries, Norse Mythology has become a collection of scattered texts that have been re-told and re-written over and over. With every god, there are many different versions that were told in various regions over various eras. For the sake of this video - and all my videos - I try to streamline these stories as much as possible and leave out some details, this might bother some, but it makes these videos more fun to watch. I don't want to get caught up in the details and lose sight of the bigger picture.
So... is this accurate and well researched? Absolutely, 100%. Is this the only interpretation or way of recounting the tales of Heimdall The Watcher? No, but subjectively speaking… it’s the way I like it the most.
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Sources:
A lot of people ask me about my sources, and… to be honest, they are a mixed bag. One major source is my lifelong interest in storytelling and mythology. Another is the beautiful endless library that is the internet, and, third, I read the occasional book from time to time, which I’m happy to recommend to you, but also… I’m planning to write my own book on mythology, so, in due time the answer will be…:
Source? Me. Yay.

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When Norse Mythology suddenly steps into the weirder creepier Greek Mythos. I mean if we take away Loki's mating choices and strategies and the children he sires. But Loki is the personification of Mischief and veers of off from the overly structured Aesir way of life so he gets a free pass.

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oh damn. I usually put them in the description, and I just realized I forgot for this one. I'll try to remember to add them later, but if I forget - if you check my last 3 videos, they basically have the same songs and they're all in the description.

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Great video. I always thought setting up Heimdall as a watchman at the gate to Asgard was a little weird. He’s an omniscient being and you got him working the gate? That’s like making Superman a mall cop.

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Why?? it has more sex and death.

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haha yes, I will bring these mythologies to KZbin, and yes, as ajk mentioned, they are on my patreon and tiktok - I'll be posting the link to my patreon with new goodies here soon

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my friend as someone from Africa let me tell you that our myths are boring as hell in Greek they have hades Apollo and ALOT of incest in Egypt they have RA SET ANUBIS and the beautiful Nile river here in Africa we have the ALLFATHER president Ramapoza the Civil war of whites vs blacks vs the government the god of power we call Eskom with his mighty Loadshedding But hey at least we have the Terrifying Beast known far and wide as the SPRINGBOK 😅

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@@Toxicflash26 debatable, It all depends on who's gathering the info and telling the story. I believe that's one of the reasons we're on this particular page and not on the others. I read a little bit about the Nigerian myths, watched some poorly adapted stories based on other African deities and I feel like they all have a strong connection to the Egyptian mythologies. I've always been fascinated by these stories and how true they might be, how they all may give the same hints to the true origin of this world we strive through.

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Odin solved world's overpopulation by having one child with nine women, the wisest indeed

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an example to live by

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i read somewhere that before he was anthropomorphised heimdallr was the world tree itself. heim means world and dallr is old icelandic for tree. as such his "nine yew root sisters" make more sense. youre a good storyteller, appreciate you bro.

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oooooh I had absolutely no idea. never heard that before. that makes so much sense. thank you for sharing that

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it's the first new mythology\belief system I will tap into on my to do list

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I knew I wasn't alone. Take your time man. If you have the chance, visit the country it's beautiful and vibrant. I can tell you this much, there are about three major cultures in Nigeria and each have their myths, the Yorubas are kinda the most famous but I bet with your skills, we'll learn more from the other cultures. We'll support you however we can. Keep up the great work.

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The amount of sexual innuendos in this video is insane.

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it's something I pride myself on

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Your humour made this video 100x more interesting 😂😂😂

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They could never keep the stories/sagas simple could they .....these ancient men of the North, but hey the Bible gets crazy too! Lol Keep them coming though Lad! You're doing a sterling job. 🤟🏻

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Thinking about it now, i'd love to see a compare and contrast video completely on marvel norse depiction vs actual norse (like downgrade or upgrade)

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hmmm good idea 🤔

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you me too actually hahaha

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Amazing content man. Would you cover Kemetic or anything related to Africa someday? Just asking please coz im an African and would love to hear something about us aswell. Thank you

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yup, I'm absolutely planning to. my dad is from Cameroon, so all of Africa is close to my heart. I'll probably start with egyptian, and then talk about Yoruba and the Orishas

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alcohol god dude Dionysus has amazing stories. actually his video is not too far away

[@InvincibleSummer7]

Another excellent video! One note about Heimdall being "The Whitest of The Gods"(Hvitastr Asa in Old Norse) White was actually a term to describe nobility and physical attractiveness. They didn't use White/Black the way we use it today. They more concerned with Class and Beauty than ethnicity. If you were pale and fair it was a status symbol that you didn't have to work outside like the lower classes. So MCU Heimdall is accurate representation in that he's being played by Idris Elba, a very handsome man. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

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damn that's a beautiful comment. thank you for adding that Julian. great ted talk.

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@@Briefed_Mythology Thank you so much! Just found your channel and enjoy your own spin and humor on Norse mythology!

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What the fuck are you going on about? He is a SCANDINAVIAN god, not a fucking Bantu. Leave my culture alone! It's not my fault you people have no culture.

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ragnarök video is going to be dropping here real soon

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All Odinson's are from Jotun mothers, which brings me to think that Odin only hated Jotun dudes

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Wait... Heimdall was the world's first remote worker?? LOL

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this made me laugh haha facts though, yes

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It is what it is

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And he couldn’t see that laurel tree will kill Baldur.

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to be fair.... heimdall conveniently doesn't see a lot of things when the story needs him too haha

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@@Briefed_MythologyWell… he works for Marvel.

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Can you do Egyptian mythology in the near future after greek mythology.

[@Briefed_Mythology]

yup, once I finish with norse mythology, I'll do some history videos and then egyptian mythology is next

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@@Briefed_Mythology Ancient Egyptian ritual to promote lettuce growth. And Nile crocodile " cough, " .. wrestling. That was later made outlawed.

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When you say "ancient texts" I wish you would quote some of your source material. It's so hard to find something outside of the Eddas😢

[@Briefed_Mythology]

maybe I'll add it to the description. in the video, it would just ruin the pace unfortunately

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@@Briefed_Mythology can u give me some source material to look into for my research purposes? Like I said it's so hard to find something outside of the Eddas?

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Idris elba was THE perfect pick for Heimdall!

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agree - I loved him in the movies. odd casting still, but I loved him nonetheless haha

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