History WMG / NorseMythology

Because [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca the Greeks said so]]. (Wednesday--Woden's Day-- is ''Dies Mercurii'' in Latin.)

[[WMG: [[RuleOfThree Odin is Poseidon in disguise]]]]

[[WMG: Odin is Hermes in disguise.]]

[[WMG: Odin is a time lord]]

[[WMG: [[Odin is Athena wearing a disguise]]]]

His death was actually a MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning, manipulating Loki into killing him. Once on Hel, he convinces her to state that she'll free him if everyone and everything cries for him (having a tremendous egocentrism, its easy to see why); he also asks for Hel to say to her father to disguise himself and not cry for him. However, what Loki didn't count on was Baldr communicating to the messangers of the gods (Odin's ravens most likely) saying who Angrboda really was, ending with the poor god suffering with the snake venom and all. Meanwhile, the gods gets sad and paranoid, and Baldr gets to build his armies. Eventually, he might send someone to free Loki, or somehow Loki frees himself, and in either case Baldr offers him the armies as a "gift for getting punished". Afterwards, Loki dies alongside with most of the army and nearly all of the gods while Baldr becomes the sole governor of the world!

Thor, Balder, Vidar, Hoder, Bragi, Hermod, Vali, Tyr, and Heimdall are all cited as sons of Odin in various places. That's virtually all the Aesir mentioned. But then, some of these figures are given other fathers in other sources, complicating matters. So perhaps they just use "son" to mean "subject". After all, Odin's title is "all-father", possibly meant in the same way a crime boss's underlings might call him "father" or "uncle".

Thor, Balder, Vidar, Hoder, Bragi, Hermod, Vali, Tyr, and Heimdall are all cited as sons of Odin in various places. That's virtually all the Aesir mentioned. But then, some of these figures are given other fathers in other sources, complicating matters. So perhaps they just use "son" to mean "subject". After all, Odin's title is "all-father", possibly meant in the same way as "Don".

This seems more likely, since he's a death god. The reason his two brothers aren't mentioned much is because they really bug him, and he was hoping to have a cult of worshippers who admired rather than feared him without having to share. Obvious, really.

It also gives Loki even more reason to be seriously pissed off with the gods when he eventually gets free.

Odin became Santa, and St. Nick is the patron of sailors. [[OverlyLongGang Obvious, really]].

Because I really like the ComicBook/EarthX explanation of where they came from and 2001: ASpaceOdyssey doesn't have enough interpretation.

Maybe he did it, but it wasn't necessarily down to free will. We don't have that much information on Sigyn, anyone married to Loki is bound to be at least a little crazy, and NO ONE is selfless enough to spend the remainder of their immortal life underground catching snake venom when there are vastly more interesting things to be doing - there has to be SOMETHING not right here. Hodr was killed for causing Baldr's death, and Loki was punished for causing Hodr to cause Baldr's death, but Hodr was just a link in a chain. So what if somehow it's Sigyn causing Loki to cause Hodr to kill Baldr, creating a chain of events that haven't been atoned for and making an already-convoluted mythology even more confusing. And who'd suspect Sigyn (who, as previously mentioned, SEEMS pretty selfless and forgiving) when there's Loki - chaotic, capricious and generally not easy to trust - in the picture? Alternatively, any mythological reveal of this was lost over centuries. It also gives Loki even more reason to be seriously pissed off with the gods when he eventually gets free.

Odin became Santa, and St. Nick is the patron of sailors. [[OverlyLongGang Obvious, really]].

Loki's plan in that story hinged on the farmer/peasant's son being fast enough to outrun the Jotun so as to trick it into impaling itself. Thjalfi is the son of a farmer and one of his most important traits is his speed, to the point where he only barely loses a race against the manifestation of thought itself. Coincidence? Probably.

Hell, considering how there might be nothing really heavy enough to give him a real workout, at least nothing he could encounter on a regular enough basis, he might actually be fairly lithe to boot.

Because I really like the EarthX explanation of where they came from and 2001: ASpaceOdyssey doesn't have enough interpretation.

If the idea that NorseMythology is a prequel to Christianity was to be used, Niddhogg, the last surviving dragon, could very well be what we know as Satan, what with Lucifer being a dragon in the Apocalypse and all. Following the idea, Baldr is Jesus.