Neil Gaiman: Norse Mythology and American Gods

[@stelmaria-mx]

Neil's voice is beautiful

[@ninfarose]

I agrre I suubed to you

[@tobiasbaumgartner8629]

Yes I could listen to him for hours

[@craftchild_9151]

I love how open minded and fun Neil Gaiman isand how he meshes pop culture well with mythology. 😂👍😊❤ And I'm grateful that most of us pagans are not as uptight as some other religions. 😂😅

[@user-wv9vb1yh7r]

I've loved Neil's works ever since my high school English teacher gave me a copy of sandman junior year!

[@danieloneal7137]

Only Neil Gaiman could make you feel sad for Fenris Wolf.

[@kevinpotts123]

Daniel O'Neal that isn't true. I have felt badly for him ever since I first heard the myth about him.

[@gyrojinn]

The fear Odin couldn't conquer begot his most dangerous opponent.

[@jantekjantek]

You now insulted everyone who believes in the old gods. Conception of good and evil has nothing to do with them. Prepare for blood feud! What is you fathers name and yours village?!?

[@ninfarose]

Love 💗🌁🦃 Beasts and Generis Wolf.

[@lunalin9870]

Some of these comments... I could never understand how someone can like Neil's works and still support Trump.

[@AndrewRMontoya]

Sounds like you’re missing key information or believe incorrect information.

[@BimbleThrooLife]

anyone else well up when he talks about the late great Terry Pratchett and Good Omens?

[@BishopFishSixtySix]

That first comment about learning of Thorr's existence from Neil......Desire plus a learnt behaviour.....so beautifully human

[@corinmiyuki4078]

I enjoyed this immensely

[@callemdavies7942]

WOW! I did NOT know Niel wrote for B5! Possibly one of my most treasured influences growing up.

[@ianmartinezcassmeyer]

Last season. It's a great episode

[@Toasty373]

Wonderful author

[@p.c.howard7025]

Great interview!

[@Loomofthefruit-s]

13:19 Great story, heard a longer version as a child

[@HellaGust]

Interestingly, the first issue of Peter Madsens Valhall comics also have Loki tricking Þjálfi into breaking the bone. And that initial album was printed back in '79. Great minds think alike I suppose. :D

[@fakethefun]

Loke Odinson me three 😬

[@nixeradicatus]

Greetings from Peak Ragnarok.

[@kalevala1778]

I’ve been workin’ on the whale road, all the live-long day!

[@jackijura249]

please consider hearing loss and record at a volume we can turn up

[@StorytellingHeadshots]

I agree. However one suggestion is you can purchase a external bluetooth speaker that can amplify the sound so yiure not limited to the capacity of your computer’s internal speakers. I like the Oontz brand, which you can find on Amazon.com for less than $30. Good luck! :-) Hope this helps!

[@constancemiller3753]

Suggest it in email to the Boston Public Library. They might close- caption thier lectures as an American with Disabilities act public service. They are awesome folk:)

[@TheSWolfe]

The volume diminishes as video progresses. By its end, I had ear to laptop speaker, which made viewing difficult as I am far-sighted! Lol Annoying, yes, but content worth effort. Thought volume control faulty at first, had to double-check to be sure was turned up all the way.

[@cmcgrew98]

I do love the story of Fenrir!

[@ninfarose]

Love you Neil. We share many same passions I think. 🤍🇮🇹💐🦃

[@Randy-1967]

Snorri Sturluson only wrote the pros edda , the poetic edda is older , he in quite a few cases directly quotes the poetic edda

[@mariamkinen8036]

I'd love to visit Norway.

[@clausmatrik2417]

Loke has something to do with a Spider. the Horse sleibner has 8 legs and Loke is the inventere of fishinnets.

[@djdora]

It was both funny and sad when he talked about Terry 😭

[@ShawnWeeded510]

Love this guys work but his comments on a silent comic has literally already been done so the story In Norse mythology he's saying can't be done can be done with the right artist and art style.

[@JohnSmith-el2nj]

I used to read Fantastic! and Terrific!

[@spoonerbooner]

god I love Neil

[@howardkoor2796]

What a mind on that boy!

[@ninfarose]

Agreeee 🌈🌈🌈 Collingwood Ontario Public Library

[@supersiamesisk]

This is basically what we swedes are thouhgt.

[@brandonknowles1648]

Sounds like Wee Small Hours of the Morning was the song he couldn't think of

[@thetruth45678]

Gods are the prehistoric predator. The hero is the sacrifice, given up to the lion to save the tribe. The conquest of the lion is redemption.

[@telemetriklongwalk4326]

Cute but no

[@thetruth45678]

@@telemetriklongwalk4326 The blind never see the truth.

[@BigHenFor]

You are blind if you follow the lore of the Hero. Read Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death". Then think how much the pursuit of heroic immortality has caused humanity pain.

[@thetruth45678]

@@BigHenFor No. I don't think I will.

[@dilly2000]

Jesus

[@prof_parahelix2390]

In-faux-mation

[@fullmetaltheorist]

That guy sound like Kermit the frog.

[@bunnitrixelstrange3594]

I love Neil’s stories great writer. Shame about the Politics. Trump Rules

[@BigHenFor]

This comment aged like stale milk.

[@jimpalmer2981]

What an idiot. Apparently you missed tbe whole point of Gaiman’s work.

[@WhatTheBearSaw]

IT is 2021 and I'd like to know what Gaiman would recommend for helping us to survive the "Biden Year(s?)". I actually survived the Trump years. I think it's because I didn't give in to hysteria and stopped following mainstream news.

[@telemetriklongwalk4326]

The best thing about the Trump years is people started paying attention to all the evil things our country does. Now with Biden in power, we are doing the same things but everyone went back to sleep. If you think Trump and Biden are fundamentally different, you are part of the problem

[@BigHenFor]

Do it in the same way you survived the Trump years, because it's just another chapter of the same story. Unless human nature has evolved, it's the same story, different cast.

[@jimpalmer2981]

A lot of people didn’t survive the Trump years.

[@RedWolfenstein]

Really, Trump is more Viking then this guy.

[@benjicalavera3218]

Words of Welke i doubt those tiny hands could lift an axe 🤣 You really think me bone spurs would make it as a viking lmao he would be a roman concubine at best 🤣

[@sonnygivens4549]

I don't get why every American gods interview he does, the interviewer always has to bring it to politics...and trump....

[@thegodofimagination]

Well he was ask and American Gods is show/book(i haven't read book i really should) about immigration so it kinda inevitable that in poltical climate around immigration to American especially Trumps stance on it that it would be brought up. Should been maybe not but an interview and we got take grain with the salt as the saying goes

[@BigHenFor]

Politics is a by product of societies being run as heroic systems. The flirtation with undermining democracy is a by product of one class of people projecting their fear and paranoia into the future. It's all that, so stories are important as they help create that future. So Gaiman need not demur in challenging modern myths.

[@obcl8569]

@@BigHenFor well said.

[@PhilosoFeed]

Lol that's so crazy I totally survived the Trump administration without ever having seen this video. How do people like this still show their faces lol.

[@stevenlennon12]

GO TRUMP!!

[@annietrueman7]

Straight to jail🤪

[@Toasty373]

Neat

[@obcl8569]

Go, get outta here already, you heard the man! Go, Trump! And yes... Straight to jail.

[@jimpalmer2981]

How stupid can people be, really.

[@beeawesome2869]

And how about who can teach us about surviving a biden administration?

[@jimpalmer2981]

Ahhhhh, your butthurt is so touching.

[@beeawesome2869]

@@jimpalmer2981 Don't be touching my butt you maniac.

[@beeawesome2869]

@@jimpalmer2981 @Jim Palmer Really? Who or what are you with your snarky comment to me? Are you the Biden / Harris defender of the KZbin comment section? Or are you really the defender of hurt butts? If so, you must be really busy what with all the snowflakes today, and their butts melting by the word Trump or the simple question, what is a woman or the elementary concept of the biological differences of boys and girls. Out of all the comments here, you were touched by mine. And, honestly, in my initial reply, I thought you sounded like a pervert more than a maniac. But, whatever the case, my comment was made in good humor even if you didn't understand or get it. It's the interviewer's question. I just changed one word. So, is the interviewer, or whoever submitted the question, butthurt too? The changed name doesn't change the meaning. You could exchange Mr Trump with the majority of politician's names, like Brandon or Hillary, and wonder if we will survive. Or, it's possible to stop automatically being so serious about the ever changing and ceaselessly ridiculous and yet usually boring political landscape to find enough humor for a laugh or at least a smile.

[@jimpalmer2981]

@@beeawesome2869 Aw. Cry, little MAGot. Cry for us. Your poor, tender lwiddle sensitive feewings.

[@sistinia88]

I wish he had kept his political views to himself and stuck with the stories

He was asked a question and would be rude not to answer. Politics are something that he goes out of his way not to talk about. Also, what exactly did you gleam from his answer, that you had to phrase it as “his political views”? Also also, he does have the right to do whatever he wants and speak his mind in whatever he wishes. Fancy ways of saying “shut up” aren’t nice at all.

[@telemetriklongwalk4326]

So you wish he didn't answer questions in an interview? Such a snowflake

[@jimpalmer2981]

I just bet you do, MAGot.

[@cozmonauts932]

didnt know neil was a liberal, i guess its time to read someone else LMAO

[@fullmetaltheorist]

One reader leaving won't affect his sales much

[@fullmetaltheorist]

One reader leaving won't affect his sales much

[@Swanky11]

you won't be missed 🙄

[@cmcgrew98]

I suspected that he was a liberal, given that he is good friends with Tori Amos, who is definitely liberal. That being said, though I think it's best to leave politics out of the picture unless it is strictly necessary.

[@cmcgrew98]

My feeling with Gaiman and Amos is that people like them can be very talented at what they do, and one can still learn something from them even if one doesn't necessarily see eye to eye with them on certain political matters.