SCAN 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Surtsey, Modra

• School: UBC
• Department: Scandinavian
• Course: SCAN 335
• Professor: G E O F F R E Y W I N T H R O P- Y O U N G,

Document Summary

First life forms are born from nature product. Two tectonic plates released volcanic and created iceland. So water meets ice and created ymir. But myth has a flow and oral. Life is created in a mild temperature zone. Bible is systematic, separated land and land. Thor killed frost giants every spring so they can plant crops. Snorri turned the aftermath of volcano eruption into myth. Giant gives birth to the cow and cow gives birth to odin"s grandfather. To create the world and use the giants body to create world. Giants in norse are smart and sociable. Only two giants survive and produce more. No further mention of vali and vili. Ymir is not an ancestor of odin. Goya"s saturn devouring one of his sons. Appear in a charismatic way as that the gods have blesses them that they deserve leadership. Sons want to prove that they are capable of doing the jobs. No stable succession mechanisms -- intergenerational conflict.