Mjolnir True Meaning: Translation, Attestations, Theories of Norse Gods/Deities

[@dseelenmagie8811]

Think of our body, as a fractal, that represents/reflects the universe within us all, in a very real sense. Someone mentioned blood vessels and trees...yes! Our very bodies are intertwined with existence through many ways. The God's struggles are our struggles, the universe as a whole is reflected in all parts of our physical being. That's why we have a yearning for the cosmos or the beyond, let's say. It's astounding to know how our ancestors made these connections back then, simply by paying attention to the surrounding world/universe. Then passed down kennings of such imagery, that speak to our hearts and souls even now.

[@user-zg1qz8oz2u]

Very well said!! Thank you. 🙏

[@cafecitoconazucar]

Greetings from Chile. I enjoy a lot this channel, Nordic culture and tradition are very interesting and beautiful. Here the natives, the Mapuche, have a symbol called 'Toki' which means 'axe', it is said to be given by a deity through lighting. It is a stone axe (toki küra) head worn hanging from a necklace only during war time by the designated military leader who also was named 'Toki', this role given to a person only during war time, chosen by his military abilities and given the role duirng a ceremony. The stone was buried before a holy wooden pillar. And should be bathed in the blood of a sacrificed animal or even a Spaniard invader for the stone to absorbe the blood energy before bein dug and given to the Toki. I just wanted to share this with you because I though you might like it or find it interesting. I hope you do. Thanks for your work, I hope you channel keeps on growling.

[@berserkerbambi6094]

Wow, that is so interesting. Thanks! This reminds me of a "Kris" a certain knife from Indonesia, wich, when unsheathed, has to taste blood (or you are cursed and blood will flow) so one had to go stab someone or cut oneself before it can be put back. (the relation to your story is the need for an object for blood) Now i will google Toki...Maybe there was contact between the Chilean people and the Nordic people from here...?

[@cafecitoconazucar]

@@berserkerbambi6094 I think it is very unlikely that the vikings got to meet the mapuche, they were located at the south end of actual Chile and Argentina, its way too far for them to have arrived there I believe.

[@chrismassie3493]

@@cafecitoconazucar there are stories in Argentina i belive of a Golden haired bearded king. The Nazis went to looking and found vikings remain in caves. Story goes that they started to dig untill hit rock that the best drills they had at the time couldnt penetrate. So Hitler had engineers build a more powerfull drill to find what was on the otherside they thought something had been sealed. This is one of the tail that mainstream archeology doesnt like to speak of cuz it goes against the narrative that the oceans were barrers not highways to use. Vikings were amazing sailors

[@cafecitoconazucar]

@@chrismassie3493 I've read about that. Some runic inscriptions in argentina and paraguay. But everything is always linked to those nazi archaeologists and no one else has seen them or studied those places so it seems kind of fake. Those are claims made without consisten evidence.

[@chrismassie3493]

@@cafecitoconazucar i cant see mainstreal scholars admiting that vikings got that far. It goes against alot of historians. Is it fake maybe but what would they gain from that lie? Theres huge parts of history that have been lost or ignored/discredited and tales of natives are usually pushed aside as lore. I wouldnt be so quick to say that its fake. The vikings were good enough sailor to get to Africa and north america so south America is believable. Ancient understanding of sailing isnt given the credit its due

[@ApollonarianShy]

Thanks.. i felt more in love w Norse old culture ❤ n spirituality

[@quotedearjangmi]

I received my Mjolnir today and I feel so energized and empowered. The symbol makes me think of strength, impulse, and perseverance. Thank you for posting this video.

[@ashleysheree2406]

I'm glad I found your channel. I'm new to this path and you make it so easy to grasp.

[@bjenns_skog]

Thor was already a powerful and accomplished warrior before he received the hammer. That is the point of the story. When Thor learns of Loki’s transgression against Sif, he overpowers Loki and threatens to crush him. Loki therefore not only agrees to his punishment, he also follows through on it once he is out of Thor’s presence, because he knows that there is no way he could elude Thor's wrath. Additionally, the Aesir wouldn’t agree to have anyone but their greatest hero carry the weapon that would safeguard them from the forces of chaos and destruction. Thor gets the hammer because he is the obvious choice to wield it, otherwise he would have gotten the boar, or the ring, and perhaps Frey would have gotten the hammer. As a frame of reference, go swing a nine pound sledgehammer as hard as you can. The first few times, one thinks “Oh, this isn’t so bad”, but after even a few more swings, most people start to lose velocity on their swings, and tire. In a combat situation, the mass of heavy weapons confers an advantage only as long as one could generate the speed to counter the blows of the opponents weapon. Once one begins to tire, the mass would work against you. In other words, in combat, one wants to carry the heaviest weapon that one can fight with effectively. For most people, that would be a spear. What these stories are telling you is that Asa-Torr is so strong and tireless, that he can wield the greatest weapon. So the hammer isn’t a heartbeat. We all get a heartbeat, but not all of us go on to be powerful forces for good. The hammer is something that we acquire when we are already devoted to our purpose. It is a tool that we earn once we have already committed to develop our might and main, to be decisive, to risk injury and death, in order to set things right in the world. It demonstrates the impact of dedicating oneself to order and protection. Interestingly, though, Thor does not forge it himself. Loki sets the tale into motion, and the it is the skills of the dwarves that make it possible. The dwarves could never hope to wield it, but Thor isn’t able to make the hammer. Make of that what you will.

[@billybobmoffat2132]

cheers mate i enjoy your banter lots of love and light from scotland

[@Kjdjrh]

In the movie ‘Thor’ starring Chris Hemsworth & Anthony Hopkins as Odin- the Norse Gods were depicted as ‘Aliens’ who came to earth to help humanity- another intriguing spin. Either way… I think Norse mythology is fascinating! Olaf-Philadelphia 🦉🇮🇸🦉

[@bjornekdahl721]

I've heard that Mjölnir was originally, during the Stone Age, 'just' a (flint)stone that was put on the chest of a person who had died, and it was believed that the life force (megin/mægen) went in there, and when a child in the village was turning seven he/she entered the grave, took the stone and hung it around the neck and by doing so actually 'became' the ancestor. That was also when you took the ancestor's name.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

I read something similar. In Varg Vikernes books. I haven't read about it anywhere else but it makes alot of sense. Is that where you heard it?

[@bjornekdahl721]

@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 I've definitely read it in Varg's books - and if we disregard his reputation and politically correct opinions about him he's an extremely cunning man in this field. I've also read about the above in at least one more source, but I just can't remember which at the moment.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

@@bjornekdahl721 Absolutely. One of my favorites!

[@bjenns_skog]

These kinds of rites may have occurred at some time and place in the Germanic world, but the purpose of the having a thunderstone, hammer amulet or axe amulet isn't simply to transfer megin to the next generation, any more than it would be to protect a household from a lightning strike - those might have been secondary considerations, but the essential purpose of having a representation of mjolnir is to align oneself with Asa-Torr himself. Even the earliest known version of the Indo-Europeans had a thunder-god who drove a chariot pulled by two oxen. Carrying the hammer, or having one in one's home, says that we are Asa-Torr's folk, that we strive to emulate him in our actions.

[@ergbudster3333]

Hmm. Wonderful series. And also I note that in very ancient times it was common to revere the phallus. I notice that the ancient rock carvings show Mjolnir upside down. The erect phallus and testes? Thus a gift given on marriage. Very ancient idea. Again I note that the ancestral beliefs seem to be near to what other ancient cultures are now called "animism", the quite sensible belief in the spirits of all things. I love the idea of the Dripper and the 8 rings. Wonderful concept and so much more profound than the accepted Christian (although actually Greek) notion of a simple duality. Yes. wonderful series. Tack så mycket!

[@dylanbroady8969]

As a direct descendant of Scandinavian people. I am highly intrigued by your channel. I will definitely be deep diving with you. We need the truth.

[@themav3ricm3thodd91]

A stone and hammer can both create sparks when struck against something. Maybe that's part of the inspiration.

[@TheRdickey]

The myths are so profound when you realize what is actually being said.

[@escabrosa1]

Another good video. Thanks. I always wonder how the world was perceived through the eyes of our ancestors. Their worldview was so much different than ours. Considering how different cultures view the world today, It's hard for me to imagine how they saw it. I am a retired soldier, 21 years in the army, mostly in U.S. Army Special Forces. I had trouble relating to the average civilian after I retired because we view things so differently.

[@mbm8404]

Hands down the best description I’ve ever heard. So glad I found this channel. Thank you!!!

[@dipper9755]

While I like what you've had to say on. Mjolnir and agree much with it. In reference to what you said about the the gods though, at least in my personal belief the two ideas stated kind of meet in the middle. being a spiritual people and having a good understanding of spirits, I wouldn't say that it is a far off notion that the gods were definitely their own entities merged with the representations of nature that we see in the lore. Filling archetypal roles. I feel like the topic is extremely diverse and more than likely during that time was indeed believed in many different ways from region to region. It would be interesting to see a video on the complexities of personal perception of the gods, both personal, present, and in past systems of belief in specific regions

[@Pub2k4]

10:46 I’d say the 8 rings being made every 9 nights represents the gestation period of human… 9 nights = 9 Months

[@Hadrada.]

This was proper interesting never seen a video from this direction Would love to see on on Odins Spear

[@billybobmoffat2132]

me too

[@Foltore]

Man, THANKS for this! Dont know, if this is "THE" real meaning in terms of historical acuracy and all this stuff. But i have a stronge emotion about your stuff here: It feels right for me. I just realized: Mjölnir and Draupnir are two verry verry important symbols. I made some time ago my own "seidr-ring", crafted from silver myself and in an ritual way, calling for the spirits and gods and so on, while forging on the item. After your other video i took my mjölnir amulett, that i have buyed just the time i made my own ring. I put it on now and just feel someway "stronger" with this. And more "balanced". Now i want a good and strong more authentic Mjölnir, so i will craft this from silver for myself now, I simply have the feeling: This will complete also the power of my ring. There is another idea i had while watching your stuff: The symbolism of draupnir and mjölnir reminds me of the "shamanic" drum and the drumstick. What is it? The interaction of this two creates the drumbeat, what is the driving force for the spirit, to journey into the otherworlds. The typical drumstick of the sami drums: it is formed like a hammer and more: it looks like mjölnir. Im pretty sure, there must be a connection.

[@dennispedersen1476]

and of course some rocks make sparks that look like small lightning bolt, and is used to make fires, that keep people warm and lets you cook food over a fire

[@jimsvensson9961]

Doesn't the lightning look a little bit like blood vessels in the body that is beeing pumped around by the "heart"?

[@paulmetrich9673]

Watch a thunderbolts project video electricity made us and the trees!

[@berserkerbambi6094]

Yes! Lightning is our Father and Mother. ...or something. It struck the primordial soup and then life as we know it started!

[@wesbaumguardner8829]

Yes. We have all been lied to about what electricity is and how it functions. Electricity is not particulate, it is purely a field phenomenon. Mainstream science has completely abandoned the observations of Michael Faraday, Oliver Heaviside, Nikola Tesla, and Charles Proteus Steinmetz and substituted them with their erroneous particle theory of electricity which is just a rehashed version of the ancient Greek particle conception of electricity. Even the Tunderbolts people are way off on their conception of electricity and pretend there is no such thing as dielectricity. Lightning is nothing but a total collapse of a dielectric field resulting in a coronal discharge.

[@merrill3021]

Tree branches are like lungs in our body.

[@Hadrada.]

@@paulmetrich9673any links please Thanks

[@heaven-earth108]

'молоть' [molotь] (a verb) means 'to grind' in russian . 'Молот' [molot] (a noun) meins 'hammer' ..........so there is a bigger connection as one may realise. .. as u mantioned молния [molnýa] means lightning ....... its use for protection may be explaned by transforming something in something else...... such as the grinder created flour of grain, the hammer creates a tool out of iron or the lightning transforms densed energy into free flow....... so it shall transform negative into pure/usefull . ......thus protect ...... thank your for your content brother

[@Wismerhil]

Such an enlightening explanation, thank you!

[@mykulpierce]

I think the story of Fenrir represented a certain warrior class. Wolf skin wearing warriors that were then bound. Not a literal binding (especially as the mythical binding was made of things that didn't exist) but a mental one as the culture of growing Christianity positioned itself against these warriors. In terms of shape of Thor's hammer, check out an older Indo-European god from Anatolia named Teshub. A lightning God.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Yes. The Koryos! That could very well be true. I like that. Thank you.

[@James-nk7wq]

This is an incredible channel. So much to think on!

[@chriswest4875]

It seems that Mjolnir is in essence the driving force behind all life, just as a hammer would drive a nail, but I noticed between the two myths discussed Loki is present if not a main character. Is there a correlation between this driving force of life and the catalyst of change that I’ve heard Loki described as?

[@Powersnufkin]

Yes. The driving life force(Thor) comes from the heightened concsiousness(Odin). There can be nothing without change(Loki). Change is needed and you cannot escape change. everything changes and evolves. There is Loki. Change causes joy and sorrows in our lives. Remember that Odin and Loki swore an blood oath in the old days, that no drink shall Odin take if not also offered to Loki aswell.

[@NickMythCalifornia]

@@Powersnufkin this is deep, and completely agree.

[@torstenscott7571]

Great video, I just had to subscribe, thanks for your research.

[@markusrimpelainen1680]

In Finland we have the same Symbol. Its called Ukkon Vasera/ Ukkos Hammer

[@huginnmuninn9867]

I love your video's they definitely have me looking deeper into everthing. You've mentioned 3 of the 6 gifts given to the Gods will you eventually cover Odins spear Sifs hair and Fryer s boat? I kind of have an idea for the spear and hair but nothing for the boat.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Yesss exactly right! Those are a bit more difficult. A few different theories on those. Yes i will speak about all of these soon.

[@dylanberger5885]

Wow, that was such a great video. Your videos are always good and so informative!! Would you ever consider doing a video on the meaning of the valknut?? Keep up the great work!!👍

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Yes we don't know for sure. but there are definitely theories. I will do a video for sure!

[@end0skeleton404]

When you talked about a grindstone I couldn't help but think of the Sampo from the Kalevala in Finnish Mythology.

[@bookofog]

I was wondering if you could comment on a story I remember reading when I was a kid. Is this authentic Norse myth, or was it dressed up to appeal to more readers? Thor, Loki and Balder are travelling and decide to spend the night in a cave. When they wake the next morning, they find they've actually slept in the glove of Utgard-Loki, king of the giants. He invites them to his hall and challenges them to a few games. Thor is challenged to wrestle an old woman, but he can't defeat her. Loki is challenged to an eating contest, but he loses. Balder is challenged to a race, but he loses. Thor becomes enraged at all the humiliation, so he grabs the drinking horn off Utgard-Loki's table and tries to drink the entire contents, but can't. When they depart, Utgard-Loki tells them what truly happened. Thor was actually wrestling old age, which no one can defeat. Loki's opponent was actually fire, which consumes everything. Balder's opponent was actually the wind. When Thor drank out of the horn, he was actually sucking down the ocean. Utgard-Loki then hid his hall with illusions so they'd never find him again. Does any of this ring true with actual Norse myth?

[@bookofog]

Turns out the next video in line explained that Thor was trying to lift Utgartd-Loki's cat, and it was Jormangandur in disguise. Never mind. :-)

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Yes thats right! Except it wasnt Baldr. They were with thjalfi

[@ericnissen1]

May I suggest, read (or listen to on audible) "Norse Mythology " by Neil Gaiman...its a beautiful and,in my humble opinion, perfect telling of most of the Norse stories we have all heard. In that telling, he tells that exact story and its wonderful 🤓🙂🇩🇰🇳🇴

[@berserkerbambi6094]

@@bookofog Arg! These different details, and it all could mean different things...Time machine please!

[@bookofog]

@@berserkerbambi6094 Well, it was a few decades ago when I read it, so I was bound to misremember some parts of it.

[@ThePacificNorseWest87]

To add on what you are saying I think the hammer represents duality in all aspects of life. It takes force or violence to destroy but also to create and protect.

[@janelarson7065]

I hear the hammer was dropped in the bride's lap as a joke AND a blessing--"hammering" being a slang reference to marital bliss, haha!

[@jzchannel6201]

Keep up the great contents 👍

[@suzetterhoadesf6805]

Very interesting. Thank you

[@MrBarborosa]

Hey buddy wheres that Thor video?? Love the content

[@whiskeytangosierra6]

Mjolnir can be viewed as the trials and challenges that shape us into who we are.

[@keeperoftruth5951]

Great video. I thought it was Heimdallr that suggested thor dressed as freyja but I could be remembering that wrong

[@berserkerbambi6094]

Hello everyone who reads this, i liked/responded to so many comments because this is all SO INTERESTING.

[@richardjones7984]

Thank you for your interesting insights into the Norse world. You say that everyone agrees that Mjolnir means the heart in the magical context and this is the modern symbolic interpretation of Thor's hammer derived from partial books. Well, I do not agree at all with that idea at all and for a very good reason. My knowledge does not come primarily from books but from worldly personal experience which is good because it is genuine information and bad because nobody can verify it on Wikipedia. You explained in a previous video about Odin that people can become temporarily "possessed" by the spirit of a god like Odin or Thor by either drinking a hallucinogen or by making an animal sacrifice. This is mostly correct but the connection to the god is slightly distorted by these techniques. There are other ways available to individuals with the right psychic gifts and that comprises around 1% of the population, who traditionally became a medicine man or priest. I happen to be one of those people and I don't need any drugs or bloodshed to connect to a god. It is something that sometimes occurs naturally and I don't particularly like the process. I shall give an example regarding the god Thor. I am a pacifist and do not agree at all with wars but I do believe that all warmongers should be removed from positions of power and when they die their bones should be incinerated. This belief comes from the fact that in my youth I was a weapons designer and came to the realisation that continuing wars with continually improved weapons would result in human extinction. This I proved mathematically. Back in 2020 I was aware that things were going very wrong and a series of dreams guided me to performing a series of rituals on a massive mound (not a burial mound) with a group of likeminded people. It went like this. Several years previously I had entered a new age trinket shop and asked the Indian owner for a weapon to slay a demon. I know demons cannot be slayed but only exorcise or pinned down. He sold me a real iron Phurba about four inches long. It had three faces which meant ways to attack the demon in either words or thought. One face is serious meaning, use reason. One face is angry, meaning use anger. One face is laughing, meaning use humour. The Phurba is not really a weapon but is a tent peg. When the demon icy winds are trying to blow you away in the Himalayas you have to pitch your tent and ride out the storm. So you take your Phurba and with a short handled hammer you strike it firmly but not too hard and drive it blow by blow into the ice. Then you can erect your tent and survive the demon storm. So I had my magic mound, my Thor's mallet and my Phurba and we performed a very simple ceremony. We circled the top of the mound three times all the time desiring silently that the local evil should be dispersed. The first time we each individually argued against the current evil with reason, the second time with anger and the third time with humour. Our prayers were made to the Creator of the Earth and ourselves, commonly known as God (Capital G). The I put the phurba at the highest point of the mound and struck it three times with Mjolmir. Each time it was struck we used the phurba three types of invocation. That was the inspired ceremony which I for one thought would have no effect. I am a skeptic about these things and looking back I have to wonder where the idea came from. But it did have an effect. One week later there was a series of four earthquakes in the area, which is an extremely rare occurrence. One of the epicentres was directly under Mentmore Towers which is the actual site of the satanic parties depicted in Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" film about the criminal methods of the elite. Another aspect of Thor that manifests when I get very angry is that it causes storms. This was something I was not aware about until my first wife accused me of causing a storm. At first I thought she was crazy but then I noticed that when I was emotionally upset with a woman storms often materialised. Conversely I got the idea of dissolving clouds at will from a book and tried it out. It works. So Thor's hammer is a real hammer and it causes earthquakes and lightning. Just as the giants are real. Astoundingly, the Marvel film Thor 2011 is closer to the truth than your academic musings.

[@hejnye]

You have a gift for teaching.

[@jasonreed9739]

Thanks for explaining it a lot of them need it

[@AngelxVillian]

For me thor and his hammer represent electro-magnetism which is what everything is made with in the universe

[@Pub2k4]

I was coming in to try and pick apart your argument, but then you opened with “Our ancestors didn’t believe in the myths” and I knew I’d found a new home. I love talking about the metaphors the myths reflect. I’m gonna see if you have a video on Fenrir… I have an opinion of the metaphor he represents, and it’s controversial for some reason. Edit: You do not have a video on Fenrir. I’d love to discuss.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Not yet. Fenrir is alot more difficult with many theories I have read. Will be coming eventually

[@Pub2k4]

@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 Arith Härger has a great video called “The Werewolf Cult.” The video is mostly about the idea around Ulfhednar, but he points out that Odin’s binding of Fenrir was symbolic of Odin trying to control or even eschew chaos. But as we all know, a world without chaos is a world out of balance. He then goes on to say Odin’s death by being eaten by Fenrir is symbolic of Odin being consumed by the chaos he tried to hide away. I personally feel that this is a great analogy of making peace with the elements of the world that we cannot control. Great content on your channel. Thank you for the hard work!

[@petrofski88]

Thor's hammer (symbol) looks so much like an anchor in all its depictions...

[@parabot2]

Think man, think it's much more . You can build with a hammer and also wield it as a weapon.

[@febaco192]

I think in parts of Germany Donar had no hammer. He had a club. I think that it maybe evoleved later to a hammer.

[@HolyPineCone]

I think he has had an axe too, in some cultures at soecific times. I think his weapon evolved with what technology was available

[@maximhornby5493]

@@HolyPineCone yes Perun for slavic mythology

[@googlename3859]

Sounds like the Dagda from Irish mythology as well, with a club instead of a hammer. Pretty much every other descriptor matches, gigantic, pot bellied, big bearded jolly redhead, protector of mankind (the Irish tribes at least), magical club, etc. I know people often equate Thor to Taranus and the Dagda to Odin, but IDK the descriptions speak for themselves to me

[@Darvit_Nu]

* not fast forwarding * I find your videos and thoughts interesting and sometimes very thought-provoking ^_^ I have Norse ancestry. LOL that must've been one hell of a big, hairy "woman" XD hahahaa! Great stories!

[@GothicXlightning]

4:31 An imagery of Absolute true beauty by Thor's hammer i ll never take away my Mjolnir silver chain

[@chrishommel8845]

As it seems the gods represented many things, not just one specific thing, I also wonder if mjolnir represents adrenaline/courage. Thor hated the jotunn, and as you've mentioned before, they represent the destructive forces in our existence, or the dimension of destruction. When heart has historically been related to courage, would it not also possibly represent the driving force we drum up to fight/flight against destructive forces in our life? I dunno, just some food for thought

[@miakoblastsprocket7379]

Thank you for the video, I am new to the path and being in the states all I have are sources such as the poetic eddas. I know this video is a year old but it is still good. A thought occurs regarding interpretations: we as humans create Gods. We create them to explain the inexplicable. Like for instance a car accident that shouldn't have dealt some form of life altering harm or even fatality and the person emerges from it unscathed. A Greek tale of Persephone comes to mind. Daughter to the goddess of nature eating a number of pomegranate seeds and has to stay in the underworld for 'X' number of months of which the goddess won't allow anything to grow. This is seen as to explain the seasons. While the heart idea is very viable, maybe it is possible that it also explains some sort of instance of life that we're not aware of? Because the story of Thor dressing as a woman to get the hammer back, what could the giant in the story represent? And what could be the counter balance between Thor and Loki potentially symbolize with the cutting of Siv's hair?

[@mannuraven2157]

gave me more to think about, ty

[@ScottHarbison]

Basic human wisdom will never be snuffed out. I am a polytheosynkretic. If it makes sense, I'm in.

[@QueenLiliTheRed]

Mjonlir reminds me of the Kundalini 2 serpents spiraling up from Hinduism, mjonlir grinds the wheat (fertility ) of freya, the two energies, and the giant serpent is thors enemy the bad one, I wonder if this is what Mjolnir is and the lightning is the spark of life , the spirit

[@blackbass4u2c]

Ha hammer that grinds... thunder sounds like grinding after the strike...

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

I really enjoy the sound of Proto Germanic!

[@slytherinsalazar4668]

I don't want to offend anyone. Just a genuine doubt. When you say 'our religion', what do you mean? I've heard just about Asatru, but almost everyone I heard speaking about it was cringe af. I'm in love with the norse myths and I like your videos very much. Great analysis. I like your approach with a lot of skepticism, facts, historical events and something that resembles Jungian psychology about archetypes.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Hehe I have a playlist on my channel called "Cringe Pagans" specifically making fun of them. Not our kind of people lol

[@berserkerbambi6094]

Hahaha "cringe af."! Spot on! lol

[@karamlevi]

I see it as original technology. A hammer can make high efficiency war (compared to a club, stick, or raw rock... and also you can build and shape your home, work and life with it. Also... it takes effort to make a hammer, a sincere effort of smelting, oring, and building / shaping this tool. One must make their own power and then use their own power. Like gettting fit... before you can use your fitness for “any endeavors you chose war, work or wonders”.

[@ThunderMoon6458]

It's a good theory and can be a good way at looking at it and it don't sound like nonsense either and I wear my mjornir represent my ancestors and there culture and also it being mine too and either I look at it if Thor really had a body or not I feel close to him alot and I'm always happy every time it rains, thunders and lightnings and that's why I'd say that Thor is my patron and Norse God I follow by example

[@Res1514]

Melnik and other variations is grinder or mill in most Slavic languages.

[@Rykliukas]

When there was a video about healing magic and it was said, that prayers were made to Thor for famine and sickness I thought wow, to Him? Why not to 9 Maidens including Eir? And if it was to Thor, so yes, symbolically His hammer could be heartbeat, too.

[@lewkaplanski7616]

HAIL THOR THE THUNDERER!!! 💥⚡!!!

[@Sejdr]

Interesting video. What is the sources for the 8 names of the 8 rings from Draupnir?

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Its a reconstruction. I speak about it more in this video. A couple of them are most likely wrong and definitely open for more ideas kzbin.info/www/bejne/gorYlmWMqNWgmtU

[@Sejdr]

@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 Great, ty! I have no problem with personal ideas and theories...just wondered if it had maybe come from some Scholar with some source based reasoning or if I had missed something in the sources I know. :)

[@PunkRockNerd10171]

Glad you also referenced the Indo-European lineage. The Vedic Vajra or Thunderbolt amulet also resembled a club or hammer

[@berserkerbambi6094]

Ah ok, and did you read this comment above from a Chilean guy about "Toki" (a ritual war-hammer that suspiciously resembles Mjolnir).

[@markthenothing7085]

If our ancestors didn’t see the Gods as “Gods” why does Odin often play a part in the sagas? Love the channel!

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

See my video about odin that I released last week :)

[@christiane.cristi7079]

Do you have any courses on line?

[@nurnu349]

Much appreciated 👍

[@BlackDevilGamer138]

Awesome video brother!

[@majindevon]

Do you have a video on proper pronunciation of Scandinavian vowels?

[@bilbobaggins8610]

Is there any actual pre Christian Scandinavian archeological sites that have discovered a hammer or any literature from that time period that mentions the Mjolnir being worn as jewelry? The pendant we wear around our necks looks more like an anchor and you mentioned that Mjolnir also means rock. Anchors found from that time period are shaped like the Mjolnir and also had a rock attached to the center of the anchors frame. Hercules club pendant looks like a club the so called Mjolnir pendants found from sites resembles not a hammer but an anchor. Perhaps the pendant was worn only by those who were sea goers or pirates/raiders or ship builders. The anchor "grinds” into the sea floor. The Mjolnir resembles an anchor of that time period more than a hammer and if Mjolnir also means rock as you claim, the anchors of that time also had a rock attached to the frame of the anchor.

[@zarkokaradzin5380]

i have mjolner tattoo, and i got it because of the symbolism i see in it. Sign of a protector and sign of self sacrifice.

[@ragnaroksangel]

Yikes... You can't even spell the name of the hammer you have a tattoo of???

[@zarkokaradzin5380]

@@ragnaroksangel Oh forgive me , how could i do that...

[@ragnaroksangel]

Lmfao, you really can't spell Mjölnir? Why would you get a tattoo of something you can't even spell? If you knew anything about it, you would be able to spell it. Poser

[@zarkokaradzin5380]

@@ragnaroksangel lol, this supposed to trigger me? Did something hurt you little feelings?

[@mrex3553]

Were can someone find these scripts/text. Is there modern books explaining this stuff and what are their names?`I have a very good book, the viking way.

[@aleje5761]

Thank you!

[@DirtyKid4Life]

I'd like to hear your ideas and translation of Ragnarok

[@willempasterkamp862]

any etymological connection with mole (earth moving animal) ? or molecule ? mill ? molars ?

[@PunkRockNerd10171]

Amazing insights. Thank you

[@kraftkvindendk9660]

I keep thinking about an anchor. Did the viking ships have them? Also seen as the heaven penetrating earth. Sky and earth meet.

[@BaepseMan]

Wonderful video a bit disappointed in the use of « Transvestite and hermaphrodite « however this was a really interesting video about mjolnir

[@historiasincensura2048]

Among the items that the dwarfs crafted wasn't gungnir also one of those?

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Yes. Did a video on that too

[@eivind6256]

Considering what you say about Thor, why is Odin considered the main god in the Norse religion? I assume that much of this also applies to Zeus in Greek mythology (and Indra in hinduism), but Zeus is the main god in the Greek pantheon. Why is Odin most important in the Norse pantheon?

[@desmonddecker4635]

Hi, how come when used in english. Trym and Tor become thor and thrym? It feels kinda sad for me when they say thor instead of Tor. Why do i know him as jätten trym and not thrym?

[@kantamana1]

I read somewhere that the mjolnir amulets were used as fire fire strikers, hardened in blood.

[@wemartin89]

Metaphorical personifications of natural phenomena

[@lostmarimo]

maan, you are taking all the fun out of it :I

[@thomashartmann1045]

WITH A HEART MADE OF STONE ILL SMASH THROUGH EVERYTHING!!!!! Little play on some TERROR lyrics😂💪💪💪💪

[@henriklarsen8258]

That is actually the story (myth) about Hrungner, whom Thor and his servant Tjalfe fought. Tjafe participated because the Jotun made a giant called Mokkurkalfe to help Hrungner.

[@MlSHKlN]

15:52 is that a norse rave? torches for glowsticks so techno viking was just becoming one with his ancestral spirit

[@robertsimpson7424]

Mjoinir could also be a symbol of civilization and ruin.

[@codewordslinkydog]

sometime I think we are in a game and in most servival games the crafting hamer is your life source

[@m0rgentraum]

Hey Michael, is it reasonable to believe that the Germanic peoples believed that the gods lived in a quasi-personal form in a sort of spirit realm or another dimension? Or is it the consensus that the gods are personified symbols for abstract qualities/energies?

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

I think the 2 are the same thing in my opinion. Energies/forces residing in another dimension with influence on ours.

[@m0rgentraum]

​@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 Fair point. And then the myths are basically symbolic depictions of the dynamics of those entities?

[@berserkerbambi6094]

I used to think gods etc. were allways symbolic. Nowadays i keep open the option that there may have been/ still are actual interdimensional persons that interfered/ still interfere with us. (this from getting lots of info about world- religions, history, physics, the occult, ...etc. in an attempt to answer the question: what are we doing here?!)

[@robertwatson7987]

Truth and beauty buried be.

[@berserkerbambi6094]

How do you know that they had no knowledge of nerves and electromagnetic fields?

[@aaronadams8600]

What do you think the short handle could be symbolic of, ive always wondered considering it was the great weapons only defect, could it be symbolic of short lived life or maybe symbolic of the fact that nothing is perfect, idk but i would love to hear your thoughts

[@karlmagnusson6931]

Old vargr used to say something very much like this 😉

[@paulmetrich9673]

I suggest everybody watch a video by thunderbolts project called thunderbolts of the gods backs up what he is saying and then some!

[@DivineMasculine0101]

This Man is Wise! 💯💪⚡

[@johnthered0]

a connection to completion and perfection ,reference to Tau (old testament) could be inferred

[@sigvardbjorkman]

Makes sense

[@LaughingStockfarm1]

Seems like there’s a lot of modern knowledge in this theory, what with sperm and egg, and pig/embryo, not something our ancestors would have recognized. I tend towards more obvious things…flint and steel striking sparks, using a hammer/stone ax one uses a striking rhythm, much like the heart. Going back to Vedic element understanding, the 4 elements that make up the body…fire for warmth, water for moistness, wind for movement, earth for solidity. Striking fire with flint and iron, the spark of life, the beat of creativity in hammering, using an axe, adze. Also the rhythm of the seasons. These things would be immediate and obvious. Sometimes scholars need to get out more, spend some time with a forge, knap/grind an axe from stone, talk to the women rhythmically grinding meal.

[@gendor5199]

If Mjölnir is the heart, then how come Thor gets ressurected and beats the crud out of giants? This is in need of further video lookings!

[@benbutler9282]

Just Marvellous - great stuff -