The Norns

Gehrts, Johannes, "Die Nornen", 1889, Painting, Wikipedia, 1 December 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Die_Nornen_(1889)_by_Johannes_Gehrts.jpg

Frigg

Dollman, John, Frigga Spinning the Clouds, 1909, Painting, Wikipedia, 1 December 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg

Norse Vocabulary

Vikings: Norse warrior, merchant, explorer, and pirate, that raided and colonized a wide range of Europe.

Ginnungagap: Primordial void that existed prior to the creation of the manifest universe.

Nifleheim: One of the realms in the lower world by Hel, its the land of ice.

Muspellheim: Another one of the realms in the lower world, its the land of fire.

Yggdrasil: Great ash tree in the center of the universe.

Asgard: Country or capital city.

Midgard: The world where the humans lived

Hel: Another realm in the lower world, the place where non heroic people went when they died.

Bifrost Bridge: Bridge that connects the land of the humans and the land of the Gods together.

Ymir: The ice giant, he is the founder of the race of ice giants.

Odin: The Cheif God, he knew everything that would happen and he heard about everything.

Frigg: She was the major Goddess, she was the wife of Odin and was the cloud spinner.

The Valkyries: Least important Gods, they served Odin and decided who was the most important hero when they died in a battle.

The Norns: Numerous females that ruled over the fates

Thor: He was the God of thunder

Balder: He was the God of light and beauty

Njord: Father of Frey and Freya some of the major dieties

Frey: He was the god of agriculture and weather

Freya: She is the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility

Idunn: She was the Goddess that had the apples for the Gods to keep eternal youth

Loki: He was the bad guy and he wanted to destroy the universe

Fenrir: He was a monsterous wolf and the son of Loki

Jormungandr: Sea Serpent and the middle child of Loki

Ragnarok: A series of battles and the death of many of the gods

Runes: Their alphabet and they way that they write

Boy And Bear

McCord, Kathleen. “Boy and Bear.” Drawings. Bookmakers LDT. 11 November 2008.

Grizzly and His Ward (Native American Myth)

The myth about the “Grizzly and His Ward” is associated to the Assiniboine tribe. In other words the tribe of people went hunting and they sent this boy out to get meat? He immediately left them to go get some. Unfortunately, he got lost. While he was lost a bear found him and took the lost boy into his care. The boy would eat berries with the bear. Even though he was a boy he lived like a bear did. For this reason he became very close to this bear. The lost boy lived with the bear for several consecutive days and in the same way as a bear he hibernated through the winter. Afterward the bear knew that the people were coming to get the bears fur and the bear also heard them. So the bear hid the boy to keep him safe. Meanwhile they group of people were coming into the cave and killed the bear. The boy screamed in terror because he loved that bear. As a result of the boys scream his dad had found his lost son.


“The Buffaloes Ward.” Indian Mythology. Indian Mythology. 1909. 9 November 2008.

Atalantas Hero quest

Call to Adventure:
When the Centaurs came after her and she knew she needed to protect herself.

"Once two Centaurs... and persued her. She did not run from them... stood still fitted an arrow to her bow and shot." (181)

Guides:
She-bear that took care of her.

" The she-bear took charge of her." (181)

Companions:

Meleagor and Hippomenes

"They started...she was out-stripping him..."(184)

Initiation:

When she became a hunter.

"she became in the end more than their equal in all the arduous Flats of a hunters life." (181)

Trial 1:

She kills the boar.

"...atalanta kept her head and wounded the boar." (181)

Trial 2:

During the Funeral Games

" at the funeral games held in his honor atalanta appeared among the contestants, and in the wrestling match conquered the young man..." (182)

Trial 3:

The races

"Fleet-footed young men were always arriving to race with her and she always out-ran them." (184)

Ultimate Battle:

Final Race to get Married

"...she declared that she would marry whoever beat her in the foot race."

Transformation:

Was turned into a lion with her husband

"...truned into lions..." (184)

Death/Rebirth:

She bore a son

" But before that Atalanta had bore a son..." (184)

Boon:

Free Days were over

"She was his. Her free days alone in the forest and her athletic victories were over." (184)