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[@FubukiTheIcyKing]

I just love the fact that Loki's kids wouldn't have probably been a problem if they didn't yeet one in the ocean, one in the underworld, betrayed one that was being a good boy, and used one as child worker.

[@RangeCMYK]

Ragnarok truly is the epitome of "Oh no it's the consequences of our own actions"

[@LucasF25]

Again, much like Red said... That is how these prophecies go, everything rly

[@Dostoron]

if the idea that odin constructed the whole thing to put Baldur in charge holds up, it makes perfect sense though, a most palpatinian plot to play all the sides.

[@aidenharvey3784]

That's the whole point. They weren't born evil. The gods treated them evil, and that's what the gods got in the end. Granted, Hel doesn't really do anything bad, she just chills in Helheim and cares for the dead. Jorm was pissed with Thor. And Fenrir just wanted to kill Odin out of justice since Odin (the god of order, among other aspects) betrayed Fenrir.

[@drizzmatec]

​@@Dostoron I just want you to know that despite being a Hard core Star Wars fan for the better part of 30 years I have never heard the term "palpatinian" but I will be henceforth be using it a as measurement of ever ttrpg villain I write.

[@runedoom]

Fun fact, a relatively new Simpsons episode has Loki showing up with "other versions" of himself, including Jesus Christ, Anasi, Sun wukong and bill cypher. Yes, the bill cypher from gravity falls.

[@colossalslayer3616]

"Buy more crypto suckers"

[@peter_pansexual6243]

Yeah, I thought that was a funny coincidence as well or they did their research.

[@ssj5gogeta1310]

I keep thinking that if Loki really did have some spider attributes, that would explain why Sleipnir (the horse, whom Loki birthed) is eight-legged.

[@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec]

Fun fact: Oedipus never had an Oedepus complex. He never wanted to kill his dad or bang his mom. The problem was his father was short temper and their was no internet at the time so him doing what he did was all pure accident.

[@aokhoinguyenang3992]

What Red meant when she said "the Norse gods were Trojan heroes" was that the author rewrote their origin to match the monotheistic ideal of Christianity(there is only one god so these other guys can't be gods. I got it, they were Trojan heroes with superior tech that was mistaken for magic/miracle & gods)

[@CommissarMitch]

There are many factors that could have lead up to the Viking Age. Including but not limited to: - Monks bothering Scandinavia. - Traders realising monasteries are full of loot and guarded by nerds. - *The Weather* - A lack of people

[@TheGallantDrake]

The loot guarded by nerds seems most plausible to me.

[@jaydenliberty9536]

Given that they had a habit of doing things like ripping gold off the covers of books and bibles? Yes it was definitely the loot guarded by nerds at least for a start

[@CommissarMitch]

@@jaydenliberty9536 That was later when they realised the nerds liked the books.

[@ThanesTito]

40:30 - the god doing the actual killing of Baldr with a mistletoe is Höðr, his blind brother, but he was guided and armed by Loki

[@countdeville4146]

Airier:"i need a list dammit" Red with a playlist of all of her vidoes in order of release on her chanel, named Red´s Videos: .... Airier: "i will pretend i didnt see that" Also i would love a reaction to the first videos Red did, her old Shakespeare Summarized videos are all gold.

[@gokbay3057]

lmao

[@Asexual_Individual]

I think that he meant that he needed a list of the OSP videos he's watched, since he's getting confused as to whether he's watched certain videos at this point.

[@Airier]

Now I'm not saying I've got 3 minutes into a recording while wondering why it felt familiar, but...

[@Ilikecatsismychannelname]

@@Airier This happens.

[@tristarblack4132]

Tyr loved his good boy, it was Odin's fault. When the aesir/gods laughed Tyr looked at his good boy and said "do it," and as he glared at the gods he never trusted Odin again. Well Odin is still better than Zeus

[@beefarren]

7:05 - Doggerland sank WAAAY before the Norse culture ever existed. It sank around 6500 BCE, which was still the late Mesolithic hunter-gatherer time period. The Old Norse were an Indo-European culture, and the Indo-Europeans didn't appear at all until some 3000-ish years later, around 3500 BCE, and didn't get all the way up into Scandinavia until like 2800 BCE at the earliest. 12:25 - More than cross-pollination, actually! Mycenaean Greece was also one of the early Indo-European civilizations, so both the Greek and Norse pantheons may be at least partially descended from a common ancestor religion. There are certain themes and character archetypes that are found very commonly in several different Indo-European cultures - it's really cool stuff.

[@ballendorf]

I suspect that root was probably very, very old, as Germanic myth and Classical myth are pretty distinct, in terms of what seems to be emphasised, etc. The connections are certainly there, but it feels like their last common ancestor predated them by several thousand years.

[@beefarren]

@@ballendorf Well, yeah. That's basically what I said lol. Germanic and Classical as we know them were themselves at least a thousand years removed from their original Proto-Germanic and Mycenaean roots, which were each at least a thousand years removed from their shared Proto-Indo-European ancestry. And on top of that, some scholars think that the northern and southern P.I.E. were themselves not sibling cultures, but cousin cultures, with their shared ancestor being maybe more like 4000 BCE or even older. And on top of THAT, both cultures absorbed different pre-existing populations in their areas, so they very likely took strong cultural influence from whatever was already in the area when they arrived. So of course they're very distinct. They do still have a shared substrate of language and culture that leaks through occasionally; Red even mentions it directly in the video when she talks about the trope of the prophesied child.

[@FonVegen]

@@beefarren I love these glimpses into the sheer abyss of time that is this one aspect of human history alone. And then there's so much more that has and must have happened everywhere (meaning: Looking beyond the proto-Indo-European parts) and even further back in time as well.

[@HBHaga]

One of the reasons that so many of these old stories weren't written down was that they were the job of the Skalds and Storytellers to go around telling tales through oral tradition. Much like with the pre-collection Iliad, these stories were somebody's job.

[@grahammost270]

I love it that Loki is trolling us to this day. Also, I love the Faroe Islands Loki, weird to see him in an actual heroic light. Sorry, sidenote: there's one runic inscription that read something like "Hadvar was here." Humans never change.

[@Shadeius]

So all we learned was that Loki was a Trojan War Hero that was worshipped as a fire god but was actually Jesus and Satan.

[@Dusxio]

What I take from this is Loki is a god of solutions, underhanded or not, family, planned or not, and the people.

[@haraken3119]

Loki being a god of hearth fires and homes actually works and it fits well in my opinion. If he is, that would means that Loki was a minor casual god in the day to day life, protecting home and using his cunning for the occasional mischief and to solves arising issues for people around and protecting children, until his role got taken out of proportion by Snorri's framing of Ragnarok, resulting in the mischievous but benevolent god to oppose the Aesirs who put his children through... hell... quite literally in some cases. A minor everyday god whose domain is protecting homes and family ending up opposing nearly all powerful grandiose gods disregarding the well being of homes and families of people after himself being thoroughly used as a tool for their own vices and wants to go unpunished is not the worst story is actually quite compelling.

[@TheAsylumCat]

He might've effectively been a Norse equivalent of a brownie. English fae spirit that helps with household chores in exchange for a little respect and acts out when said respect isn't given.

[@esbeng.s.a9761]

@@TheAsylumCat That is called a nisse in danish, and in moden time has nisser been connected to santa as his little helpes

[@haraken3119]

​@@TheAsylumCat Considering the Norse activities in the British Isles in the early middle age (Before Snorri), cross-pollination is not out of the window, with one possibly inspiring the other.

[@transyuri4534]

Loki is also all, a father, a mother, and a child.

[@ryanbagley3293]

One could say he’s a bitch he’s a lover he’s a child he’s a mother he’s a sinner and a saint

[@thedothackerkeyblademaster]

To me, the funniest thing about this is, if Loki as a deity of the hearth is true, it would validate Hestia's and Loki's rivalry in DanMachi.

[@IONATVS]

yeah, I like the idea of him being a domestic hearth spirit a lot, and the parallels with Hestia make him a really good foil for her.

[@jkosch]

13:20 Isis was very popular as a goddess in Italy and other parts of the Roman territory starting in the 2-1st century BCE. She was worshipped in Mystery Cults (much like Mithras or some cults of Bacchus).

[@leeshajoi]

Blue recently did a video about Snorri Sturluson, the writer of the Prose Edda. The short version is that he had a wildly unpopular political agenda and we don't know how much that influenced his retelling of his people's myths.

[@scotthadden9816]

Red wasn't playing "Walk The Line" when talking about Anti-Hero Loki, she was playing "God's Gonna Cut You Down"

[@filipvadas7602]

I love the idea that the Aesir caused their own destruction by constantly antagonising Loki's children and making Loki himself the one who does most of their dirty work, hence him being usually the one who gets blamed for everything. Really, the more you read into it the more you realise that the Aesir kinda got what was coming to them in Ragnarok

[@Skywolfhd20]

56:42 for anyone curious the literal translation of the highlighted section is "loki, give me a bone tooth for a gold tooth"

[@haasa2293]

Fun fact: 15:00 that word "harja" is still used in finnish language for hair brush For combs we use "kampa"

[@HBHaga]

Narrator: Blue did, in fact, have a Bronze Age Collapse video.

[@Airier]

😮 Well then, I know what I have to set up for the next live stream.

[@HBHaga]

@@Airier It's in two parts, sort of. One talking about Mycenaean Greece & the Collapse, and another talking about Post-Collapse Greece.

[@shadowrealm4206]

Speaking of people riding their nephew, dont you remember heracleas and his nephew iolus?

[@colt1903]

In the wise words of Alucard from Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, "JESUS WANTS A HUUUG!!!"

[@Airier]

😎👍😁

[@Brutalyte616]

Tyr isn't really that much of a dick. The other Aesir were too chicken-shit to risk losing a hand as tangible way of promising that they wouldn't betray Fenrir, while Tyr was the only one willing to face the consequences of betraying Fenrir's trust. And the best part is Tyr KNEW he was going to lose that hand because he knew the Aesir weren't going to let Fenrir go, but he still didn't hesitate. That is why in a pantheon of war gods, Tyr is the only one to be considered the God of Bravery

[@gokbay3057]

Yeah the Aesir are dicks (and Tyr did kinda deserve it) but he himself is a chad.

[@LukasJampen]

Most civilized society needed some sort if writing system to put things down. The norse were no different but for some reason their mythology was mostly spread through oral traditions instead of writing it down, despite using writing quite a bit.

[@ShahroozSmith]

Post-Snorri Translated Loki is basically Lucifer from Paradise Lost.

[@therubberducktube]

I feel like talking about the evolution of myths in the context of fan fiction does leave on erroneous assumption on the table, and that is that there exists a "true" or canonical version of the story. I think superman and his evolution might be a better fit. There is no single true or canonical version of superman. Each of us have our own image on what the real superman looks like. And people in the 1940s would have a different baseline than what we have today. Their superman isn't more correct because it is closer to the source, it is just a different one. So, in the same way, there is no true version of Loki. It all depends on the local culture, and what stories they had. These aren't OCs. They are different "official" versions of Loki. And if you are from a different village, you might consider their story wrong, but there isn't really anything making your version of Loki more right. There is no single canonical version. And with Loki there might not even be an original, first version either, since he might have evolved from hearth spirits or whatever, and just slowly, over centuries and lots of retellings, become his own character, with no singular point where he swapped from one to the other.

[@AHorrorFanatic]

This might be my faverout OSP video of all time. Really happy to see you react to it.

[@CommissarMitch]

How was Scandinavia effected by the Bronze Age Collapse? In short; Not much. They were not a mayor player. They were barely a player.

[@AMaskedIndividual]

Wait... your name is Mike!?

[@matthewdougherty1159]

watching comparative history i am game for that

[@Airier]

😁👍

[@michaelhamilton3169]

This

[@ZpEB2741]

In conclusion: Loki's controversial origins highlight his role as a trickster god to the point of making him the most iconic character in all of mythology to play that role

[@Crazael]

5:44 While some Norse runes aren't really letters, most of them are. 13:19 It's much more likely that the Norse gods and the Mycenean/Greek ones have a shared root rather than one leading to the other. 16:40 The "Viking Age" was caused by a number of factors, such as a population boom and new developments in ship building. Basically, a bunch of stuff lined up at around the same time and so the various norse kingdoms suddenly had more people than they had land to do anything with and boats that could go further and faster than before, leading to "Viking" being a pretty lucrative career choice for a large number of young men.

[@colt1903]

Now we know why MCU Loki was burdened with glorious purpose. The character is so loose at this point that trying to settle on one version you can actually do anything with without issues becomes a Herculean ordeal in of itself.

[@anzaca1]

27:29 This makes GoW even more based. It portrays both the Greek and Norse gods accurately, as the (mostly) horrible people that they are.

[@Mare_Man]

I wouldn't call the GoW versions of Hades or Heracles "accurate."

[@filipvadas7602]

To be fair, the GoW series took some serious liberties here and there. But ,yeah, if taken in broad strokes the GoW series portrays the gods, be it Greek or Norse, in a way that's *way* more accurate than you'd initially think. Like, you can tell they *did their research* in a lot of places

[@HeroNotFound05]

Loki is the epitome of gender affirmation

[@shelbybayer200]

4:33 That's Akechi's version of Loki from Persona 5 Which is kind of weird that you can get his Loki as DLC in Persona 3 Reload but have an Entirely different Loki as well. Loki of the Fool Arcana and Loki of the Justice

[@OliveThat]

Christianity really is the Disney of mythologies. It absorbs everything, retcons all the cool stuff, and tries to insert their own Mary Sue OC’s into it.

[@jairoandreslopezperez8855]

1:55 you can see the realization of the horrible truth

[@jennybrown7834]

Yes she has more than one video of Celtic mythology

[@bigred559]

The Cú Chulain video is hard to watch as an Irishman, despite how entertaining it is due to the way Red pronounces the name. Overall great videos, though

[@RukaKikuchi]

18:00 That’s Funasshii, a Japanese mascot character who is basically an anthropomorphic pear with a hyper energetic personality and super high pitch voice. Mascots like him are everywhere in Japan and very entertaining to watch when they do something unhinged. iirc that clip was from a candid camera type program where they chased him down a runway rigged with stunt explosives you see in Power Rangers type shows.

[@ginsover]

Fun fact about roman cultural cross-pollination and its consequences, the days of the week are named in honor of the celestial beigs/gods that represents them, english just kept the norse naming convention we have sunday and Monday(sun and moon) Tuesday, the day of thus(Tyr god of war aka mars) Wednesdays woden day(woden being another name for Odin aka mercury) Thursday the day of thur(thor god of lightning aka jupiter)Friday day of frigg/freya aka venus, saturday is saturn because between our beloved jothun satan analogue and the ancient one people keep the clasic one

[@vermilionrubin]

I vote for namechange to Loptrday for Saturday

[@jkosch]

Just a minor aspect of added context: In case you have experienced the manga or anime "Vinland Saga"; Askeladd is one way to phrase the name of the Ash Lad into a Norse languages. I also thinks the Loki connections fit quite well to the character from "Vinland Saga".

[@AscendtionArc]

Thanks for this. I'll add a small note about the bible thing: it wasn't so much that people _couldn't_ read Latin, as much as the church would _execute_ any normal people they thought might have read the bible; not that that stopped people who still read it from forming (mostly unsuccessful and violently ended) rebellions, for pretty much the entirety of Christian history. Even after it was made legal, when the new queen reverted that, there were a number of famous public execution, including blind woman who had payed someone to read English the bible to her, for which she was burned at the stake.

[@nelleneulmer5385]

I KNEW you would love this one! I’m glad you finally got around to it.😊😊

[@gamingledgens2112]

If you want to learn about the bronze age collapse I'd recommend the historia civilis video about it.

[@Historyfrek4ever]

Holy hell! Okay, so finnish language didn’t have known its own writing before 1500s. The inscription on the comb “harja” is to the letter Finnish word for brush, or hairbrush (which would be “hiusharja”

[@Historyfrek4ever]

Apparently the word is a borrowed word that originated from Baltic languages but is a very old word.

[@anzaca1]

9:47 I would recommend the Bronze Age Collapse video by Historia Civilis.

[@loriandanna]

I wouldn't mind watching comparative history with you. I really think I would enjoy that.

[@Airier]

It is actually really tempting. Definitely something I'd do as a live stream. Might do it to relax after the 50 Shades reading stream (joke donation goal I didn't think would get reached). 🤔

[@ryttyr14]

24:22 The book Loki is reading is titled: Black Bearti. I have no idea what that's in reference of.

[@thevoidismyhome7242]

My best guess is it's a weird reference to a Horse Girl book "Black Beauty"

[@ryttyr14]

​@@thevoidismyhome7242 Hmm, okay. If that r is supposed to be an u then yeah it could be. Also, hi fellow non-binary aroace :D

[@L_______]

im not saying they did or not but i find it more likely that they wrote on wood or something like that which would have degraded by now only wrighting what they needed to or found important enough like trade lists ect (considering they did trade with people) and wood would be cheep and easy to use the only problem is decay but i dont think mutch would need to last longer than the wood

[@alexjewett7455]

23:55 how is it a dick move on Tyr's part? The other gods were the ones who decided to tie him up.

[@kingofdragons7]

Loki's greek counterpart os Prometheus, the supreme trickster who was also chained to a rock and is a fire god

[@Airier]

That actually makes a lot of sense. 😮

[@jamesconnollysmustache735]

Another hunter the parenting video came out from that guy who did the Big-D and Kevin video. Could be interesting.

[@xenodragon6564]

as a kid my grandparent's use to read me those Norse kid books look it up sometime @Airier. ( At lest before the 50 shades of grey stream lol)

[@Airier]

... I bought the book. You know which one. ☹️

[@xenodragon6564]

@Airier looking forward to it lol

[@mejestin]

tbf being the north/vikings and meet the roman empire first, get advance technology from them would probebly make the vikings think.. hmm we dont want to cross the sea... to civilisation on the other side is too advanced. much much later.. the priests of england appears... vikings: ok guys i think we got this

[@paragonrobits809]

I've been waiting to see you watch this for a while and it was definitely fun! I consider this particular video one of Red's best, and it helps that the specifics of Loki are so hard to find historical documentation for. I noticed that you might have a misunderstanding here; you mention quite a few times stuff about the Norse religion in the context of Mycenean Greece, but Mycenean Greece ceased to exist a LONG time before the Norse stuff discussed here popped up in a recognizable form. The Roman figure Tacitus was around in 98 CE (a popular term used in lieu of AD), at least a thousand years AFTER the end of Mycenean Greece. Rome wasn't even around during the era of Mycenean Greece, and apparently its been dated to first show up around a few hundred years after the collapse of Mycenean Greece. The Norse religion has a lot of notable quirks compared to most of the religions believed to have been influenced by the Indo-European culture; most notably, Odin is NOT a permutation of the Sky Father archetype we see in many other cultures, such as Zeus (whom is also unusual in that he was unpopular compared to cthonic Poseidon), but maps closer to a trickster archetype. And while Thor is the thunderer and slayer of monsters, he's not a sky father archetype; he's a god of the common people, bringing rain to feed harvests, and slaying the forces of chaos that threaten the common people. (Apparently there's one myth that suggests that common people, such as thralls and slaves, are brought to Thor's hall to feast after their deaths, so he has a pretty strong theme of the common man's god, while Odin was seemingly revered more by kings.) Tyr, based on etymology, might have been the actual sky father figure, which Red noted in the final of the thumb tack scenes; she compares him to the Irish figure Nuada who lost his kingship when he lost his arm, which might also be the case for Tyr. Personally I really like the idea that Loki might be more analgous to Hestia than anything else. Accordingly, this might explain why there weren't any stories about him when Tacitus studied the Germanic people (besides the possibility that Loki is an aspect of Odin that become his own figure); Hestia was by far the god most relevant to almost everyone, but there are few stories about her, so this might explain why Loki didn't have any sources at that time, which I think you stated? Anyway to be clear about the chronology stuff i mentioned, Mycenean Greece fell around 1100 BC, I believe; Rome is dated to roughly be founded around 750 BC, and Tacitus' work on the Germanic people was done around 95 AD/CE, I think, so if Mycenean Greece had any influence on the Norse, it was after a thousand years.

[@rockassassin64]

kavise's blood is used in the mead after he is found dead getting it so Magnus can become as "poetic as a poetic guy" is a plot point in the Magnus Chase books {written by the guy that made Percy Jackson}

[@xiongrey19]

The Norse Runes, called the Younger Futhark was an actual writing system... and they were used... but not for writing down tales and poems and sagas. Younger Futhark writing was near exclusively used for ownership or landmarking. Things like graves, names on possessions or declarations of ownership. Myths and the like were preserved, not in writing but through aural tradition. A method that some cultures still use today and is not to be underesrimated at how good it is at keeping records consistent (hint: thats why its all poetry. Thats why poets held positions of esteem in many sagas.) We dont know the litteracy rate in these times but before the monks, writing wasnt used or meant for just writing everything down. Infact even after christianization, runestones continued to be erected for landmarking purposes with runic writing.

[@xiongrey19]

The younger futhark writing system is derived from the elder Futhark writing system that we have attestations of all the way to 150 with evidence of much earlier. Unlikely to be based on roman, but the two likely share an ancestor script.

[@jannegrey593]

Watch "Bronze Age Collapse" by Invicta. "Sea People" aren't the only cause. Heck, even this video barely scratches the surface.

[@animalia5554]

Only Loki can be both Jesus and Satan

[@--CHARLIE--]

What about the Gnostic Demiurge?

[@matiaspereyra9392]

1:47 fanfiction And bad memory, yep

[@2tbk]

Yes! make a comparative history reassessment!

[@dylanmatthewneo1506]

@Airier we know that Loki is the God of Deception, Artifice, Lies, Chaos, Evil, Magic, Stories and Snakes

[@Khailward]

Look, who among us hasn't ridden our nephew? Into battle.

[@Skywolfhd20]

5:22 airier, what do you think runes are?

[@MySerpentine]

Long life to Loki and his brood.

[@DemitriVladMaximov]

Loki is also a demon that exocists have had to encounter.

[@baddragon7057]

I love Loki, his my favorite god.

[@mejestin]

you never realised the mask is loki? although they told so in the movie? "came from norse night god, probebly loki" (which they add the night although its nonesence)

[@DarkRaikon]

it also shows that gods are being born via foolish pregnancy ....like "lol opps another baby"

[@lessonslearned2569]

Also you have to consider the Indo-European roots/influence and that these interactions over the centuries re-inforced each other.

[@matthewdougherty1159]

what's funny i had that book 1:00 as a kid with a Apple IIC game of mythology MAGICAL MYTHS and if you want a interesting book to read as a DM, "Gnomes Book by Wil Huygen [1976]" goes in to a lot of detail of the lives of Gnomes

[@LucasF25]

BROOOO, YOU HAVE NO CLUE HOW LONG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS.... all I crave now is your reaction to Supereyepatchwolf's video on fake videogames :")

[@Airier]

Gonna start in on that one next week. 😁

[@LucasF25]

@@Airier My faith in humanity has been restored once again.

[@Ridercollectables]

Hey Airier, jelloapacalypose uploaded a video on a six chaptor preview (4 prologs and chapter 1 -2 ) for the Eputhet Erased - Prison of Plastic as a physical release is coming out soon, and wanted to know if you wanted to check it out as want to see your reaction to some of things written and some of the art that will be placed in the book, especially chaptor 2. Though if you are, I willl say it is nearly 2 and a half hours long, so you might want to plan it out. If not that's fine, as you can watch it in your free time at least for support for the series instead.

[@hakonsgaming535]

Norse religion is generally regarded to be the closest example we have any direct information on to the Proto Indo European religion that spawned the greek and hindu pantheons. It's actually probably the oldest human religion to survive long enough to recorded with any clarity in the modern age, though obviously very muddied because christians are very good at destroying cultures. Also she's wrong about norse 'hating' monks, they just didn't respect them more than anyone else. Raiding is a thing in Norse culture and it's theorized that they got it from the Yamnaya steppe culture which rolled into europe in the late neolithic and displaced a lot of the local corded ware culture (these are sort of the battleaxe people that she mentioned but that's an outdated term). Raiding was a thing in celtic brythonic germanic and norse cultures who were all more or less descended from these people. The thing with Monks is that by the time they got up to scandinavia christianity had such an iron grip that they'd already destroyed celtic germanic and brythonic culture to the point that they're even more extinct than the norse now, and none of the people living in europe would dare to attack the clergy. The norse did not care about clergy, all they saw was a bunch of dudes with really nice things who couldn't defend themselves and in norse culture if you can't defend what you have you don't keep it for very long so they just rolled up and took what they wanted because why wouldn't you?

[@thomasthecoolkid7228]

Isis- YOU CAN'T SAY THAT THAT'S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD Oh, who am I kidding, no one really cares

[@dwaynejackson551]

I would actually enjoy a comparative history analysis video. I like taking myltiple views and comparing them to see where there are commonalities and differences in any given subject.

[@CGomm-le7gv]

In hazbin ep 8 Lucifer turned into a snake and a horse you don't think it going to turn out Lucifer was loki?

[@Seer_Of_The_Woodlands]

Great Video !

[@marcv102]

if you are looking for a good vid on the Nordic bronze age mite i recommend the Chenal history time. They make probably the best history docs on KZbin

[@therubberducktube]

Doggerland is stone age, so unfortunately most likely too old for any kind of writing. And if we they had it, its so far back that I doubt you can make a direct connection between any of their gods and the viking ones 5000-ish years later.

[@cassiswyrm8121]

I'd watch it! Compare that history! Woo!

[@anarchomando7707]

40:53 Dude he only got pregnant once. The snake, The wolf and the half dead half alive hel All come from his first. Love, agroboba She was a shape-shifter just like he,( joutan was the equivalent to shapeshifter) When you have two shapeshifters, You are eventually going to have weird children Even then he also had human- Ish children With Sygin His second love , It is she who was the one to control the basin above him, slowly acid is dripped into the basin, And when it overfills it gets into Loki's eyes Causing earthquakes. His chains, Were made out One of his son's entrails that is other son got turned into a wolf (these are both/ totally different children from the first three) As a reflection of What Loki did to Boulder and how he caused his blind brother Hodr To kill his brother Again, he only had one pregnancy, The other ones He wasn't the one to carry them.

[@revanmorningstar716]

I think he was also talking about the whole “eating a witches heart and giving birth to humanities evils”

[@anarchomando7707]

@@revanmorningstar716 Time stamp that because I can't find it Also he fucked the witch and she gave birth to fen jor and hel

[@revanmorningstar716]

33:22

[@hannibal-rb3go]

It's likely less they attacked Christians in retaliation and more there was a population boom and not a lot of farm land. As a result a lot became traders, but also due to the warrior culture mercenaries and Vikingers because hey this monastery has no one protecting the wealth inside. Also the lack of writing things down applies to their history as well as basically until they're almost Christian we have not idea what's going on governmentwise

[@evecampbell3069]

First? Also, love the vid!

[@deathkorpsofkriegguardsmen8488]

Hey airier! Since it’s been a few days since you uploaded Doug’s twitch book video has you opinion changed?

[@Airier]

Softened, but not changed. I think a lot of my issues with it might be more about the type of book it is than anything else (reminds me a lot of the content creator courses from KZbinrs and how they say a lot, but not all of it is relevant or helpful). I haven't read any other of the For Dummies books, so I can't be sure.

[@gemmawade869]

Woohoo Loki

[@ianjomarcaraballorodriguez6224]

Huh, soo Loki has connections to Jesus and hestia... those are two character in different religion that i had no idea he would be aligned with. And considering how religion treats characters like hades who are see as dark and mysterious im not in the slightest shocked he would also be in the same boat as hades who Hestia family.

[@TheRichmaster24]

I really want to know more

[@ThorirPP]

Since you don't seem very knowledgeable about the history of futhark and the runes, just to make things clear: runes weren't a strictly "norse" thing, it was a Germanic thing. As in, the north germanic (norse, swedes, danish) AND west germanic (angles, saxons, dutch, german). This writing system used back before those branches had diverged too much was called Elder Futhark, and is usually what you'd find when googling runes, but they were used centuries before the viking age, and the language written on them looks quite a bit different from later Old Norse Later on the system simplified (in the worst meaning of the word) into "younger futhark" used during the viking age, which basically got rid of bunch of letters (for example, using the T rune for both t AND d, only having three vowel runes for the around nine vowels they had, etc). meanwhile, in england they had the Anglo-saxon runes, or futhorc, which was basically elder futhark plus extra runes. This was used for example for old english (yes, english people used runes too. Again, it wasn't just a Norse/viking thing) Now, the main important thing is that runes were carved, and while most of the surviving ones are in stone or metal, the most common material they would've been carved in was probably wood.... which doesn't really survive too well. Before christianity brought the concept of books and writing on paper/parchment, and copying and preserve written records, most of the writing people did was probably just personal notes and stuff like writing their names on items and such. Just because you got a writing system doesn't mean you got a culture of writing down your oral mythology into long ass books

[@lunamiko9536]

Pleeeease watch Lego Monkie Kid, that's a series about Sun Wukong training his successor in a modern age of the book's world, and it's AMAZING (Also, I heard somewhere that it's authors watched OSP. Dunno if it's true, but I sure can see some inspiration)

[@drizzmatec]

Red mentioned in an episode of their podcast that she got an email from the creative team of Lego Monkie Kid where they said they used her Journey to the West videos as sources of inspiration and refreshers.

[@lunamiko9536]

​@@drizzmatec That's a m a z i n g

[@chancevillsaint695]

Doesn’t the same thing happen in Hindu mythology when Ashira destroys the world and then he turns into Ash to reform and then a new one

[@nelleneulmer5385]

You said you wanted a list of OSP videos to write down and reference. May I recommend copying this list down? In Miscellaneous Myths: Krishna. Book of Invasion Loki’s wager Utgard Loki In ancient Mediterranean History: Roman Republic, Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire series. In History Hijinx: Five Dumb History Tales. Dumb Italy stories Five More Dumb History Tales. Greek Wise Guys😢

[@kazeryu4834]

Why do you keep bringing up Mycenaean Greece? Red said the earliest records we have are from Rome. History goes M Greece -> Classical Greece -> Roman Empire

[@trihexilon5]

You should watch the Extra History series on the Bronze Age Collapse if you haven't already.

[@scholargrove]

"I need a list damnit" You know, there's this funny thing on KZbin called a 'chan-el'. If you 'click' on the 'chan-el,' and go to the 'veed io' tab, some say you can find a list of videos that the 'chan-el' has uploaded! Now, I know this is uncharted territory for a reaction channel- honestly being able to blink and breathe at the same time feels like it might be too much for some- but this is also one of the most infuriating things to see from reaction channels, them acting like there isn't an easy way to check or grab the videos they're reacting to. When it gets really bad, you get some people where only a tiny part of their content is reacted to, typecasting content creators into "well, this is what they made!" when there's so much more being completely ignored.

[@FubukiTheIcyKing]

And being a condescending crumb at the bottom of the Pringles can is going to get your point nowhere.