SCAND341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Freyja, Gefjon, Fenrir
5 Oct 2016
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Social balance in medieval iceland rested on masculine ethnic, individual and family honour upheld by male head of household. Not an act problematic but rather what it implies about an individual"s lack of masculinity and honour. Accusation punishable by outlawry, death for accuser. Prompts need to re-establish manliness (tied to individual and household honour) Thor dressing as freyja= makes self vulnerable to nith accusation. Not a god, but among the aesir. Fathered hel, fenrir, and the midgard serpent with the giantess angrboda. With aesir in mythic present, but giants in mythic past and future. Both causes and resolves problems for the aesir. Building of asgard- turning into a girl horse, distracting the horse, and birthing a new horse. The creator of tales, the god of wiles, sigyns lover, the wold"s father etc. Some foundation in charges, known from other sources. Loki causing trouble killing one of aegir"s servants. I don"t think there"s any woman more lustful than you .
