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The Journey To...North America, Part Two
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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7739442" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>The Norse already have ‘thunderbirds’. A jǫtnar eagle embodies dangerous arctic storms sweeping down from the north. An other jǫtnar eagle embodies overcast wind storms.</p><p></p><p>The vikings who settled the Americas originate from Norway. In Norway, Óðinn is practicably irrelevant. Þórr that embodies lightning storms is more prominent. Similar to the way that North American Natives understand lightning to be glowing celestial snakes in the claws of the birdlike cloud, the Norse understand lightning to be the tracers of a thrown hammer from the hand of the warriorlike cloud. The Norse associate these lightning storms with the warm fertile summers, that war against the arctic winters.</p><p></p><p>As a rule, Þórr is most important in Norway, Freyr is most important in Sweden, and Óðinn is most important in Germany.</p><p></p><p>For Norway, Óðinn is a minor feature, the Norse equivalent of a Greek muse being ‘inspiration’. Heh, the skald who celebrate this muse of musical poetic inspiration give this nature spirit alot of publicity.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For what it is worth, there are reports that suggest vikings explored further south from Newfoundland in the Americas. Suspected places include Massachusetts (where indigenous grapes are the ‘wine’ of Vinland), Georgia, the Caribbean, and perhaps even further south. Vikings probably did marry into the Native Americans. The northeast Native Tribes include yDNA from Europe, some of it prehistoric, some of it is modern, but some of it appears to be medieval and possibly derives from viking settlements.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Both Natives and Norse would have animistic shaman-like worldviews. The bard class makes an excellent shaman. But most animistic worldviews are ‘psionic’ in concept. The druid class can work if representing a Norse shapeshifter or Native skinwalker. (No polytheistic clerics.)</p><p></p><p>If inventing an animistic worldview that syncretizes Native and Norse tribal believes. Perhaps Loki and Coyote are the same nature spirit, both being a trickster and shapechanger. Albeit Coyote seems less known to the Northeast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 7739442, member: 58172"] The Norse already have ‘thunderbirds’. A jǫtnar eagle embodies dangerous arctic storms sweeping down from the north. An other jǫtnar eagle embodies overcast wind storms. The vikings who settled the Americas originate from Norway. In Norway, Óðinn is practicably irrelevant. Þórr that embodies lightning storms is more prominent. Similar to the way that North American Natives understand lightning to be glowing celestial snakes in the claws of the birdlike cloud, the Norse understand lightning to be the tracers of a thrown hammer from the hand of the warriorlike cloud. The Norse associate these lightning storms with the warm fertile summers, that war against the arctic winters. As a rule, Þórr is most important in Norway, Freyr is most important in Sweden, and Óðinn is most important in Germany. For Norway, Óðinn is a minor feature, the Norse equivalent of a Greek muse being ‘inspiration’. Heh, the skald who celebrate this muse of musical poetic inspiration give this nature spirit alot of publicity. For what it is worth, there are reports that suggest vikings explored further south from Newfoundland in the Americas. Suspected places include Massachusetts (where indigenous grapes are the ‘wine’ of Vinland), Georgia, the Caribbean, and perhaps even further south. Vikings probably did marry into the Native Americans. The northeast Native Tribes include yDNA from Europe, some of it prehistoric, some of it is modern, but some of it appears to be medieval and possibly derives from viking settlements. Both Natives and Norse would have animistic shaman-like worldviews. The bard class makes an excellent shaman. But most animistic worldviews are ‘psionic’ in concept. The druid class can work if representing a Norse shapeshifter or Native skinwalker. (No polytheistic clerics.) If inventing an animistic worldview that syncretizes Native and Norse tribal believes. Perhaps Loki and Coyote are the same nature spirit, both being a trickster and shapechanger. Albeit Coyote seems less known to the Northeast. [/QUOTE]
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