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Exhausted from Oversleep
Beth has given me a few eBooks from Amelia Carruthers’ Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World series as gifts, although I don’t think I’ve written about any of them yet. They each contain multiple versions of a well-known fairy … Continue reading →
Posted in African, Animals, Arabian, Art, Book Reviews, Christianity, Egyptian, Fairy Tales, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Religion | Tagged adam and eve, amelia carruthers, andrew lang, bluebeard, brunhilda, charles perrault, dragons, dwarves, liz phair, matakin, medea, nellie mckay, odin, ogres, origins of fairy tales from around the world, prunella, rakshasas, rape, rapunzel, rapunzel and other fair maidens in very tall towers, rudabeh and zal, seven-league boots, siegfried, sigurd, sleeping beauty, sleeping beauty and other tales of slumbering princesses, st. barbara, sun moon and talia, valkyries, vasilisa the fair, volsunga saga |
Nibbles of Nibelungs
Although I’ve been interested in classical mythology for most of my life, it was really Final Fantasy VI that made me want to check out the Teutonic hero Siegfried, a mysterious character in the game possibly intended to be the … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Comics, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, Germany, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Poetry, Video Games | Tagged alberich, andvari, anna russell, attila the hun, brunhilda, burgundians, der ring des nibelungen, donner, dragons, dwarves, fafnir, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, freyja, giants, gibichungs, gilgamesh, gudrun, hagen, huns, idun, ildico, king gunther, king sigebert, kriemhild, loki, marvel comics, mime, nibelheim, nibelungenlied, nibelungs, niflheim, oberon, opera, prose edda, queen brunhilda of austrasia, regin, richard wagner, siegfried, siegmund, sigurd, sinfljoti, snorri sturluson, thor, valhalla, valkyries, volsunga saga, volsungs, worms, xanten |
Just Gonna Stand There and Watch Asgard Burn
Thor: Ragnarok – I’ve been looking forward to this one, especially since seeing the trailer where Thor calls the Hulk “a friend from work.” So many trailers are awful, but this one worked. The Thor films feel genuinely epic, combining … Continue reading →
Posted in Comics, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Relationships, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged anubis, arawn, asgard, avengers, bifrost, black widow, brunhilda, cate blanchett, death, demons, doctor strange, fenris, grandmaster, hades, hela, hercules, iron man, jane foster, jeff goldblum, korg, lady death, loki, natalie portman, odin, ogoun, pepper potts, planet hulk, pluto, ragnarok, sif, surtur, tessa thompson, the incredible hulk, thor, thor ragnarok, thor: the dark world, valkyrie, valkyries, warriors three, wolves |
I Want to Ragnarok All Night
I just recently finished reading the Eternals Saga from Marvel’s The Mighty Thor, which originally ran from 1979 through 1980. Comics Recommended gives a good overview of the saga in three parts, but I’m going to say a bit about … Continue reading →
Posted in Astronomy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Jeff Rester, Magnus Chase, Marcus Mebes, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Percy Jackson, Religion, Rick Riordan, Science | Tagged as the rainbow follows the rain, asgard, astrology, athena, axial precession, baldur, bible, brunhilda, celestials, doctor strange, eternals, eternals saga, hela, hermes, jesus, joe bongiorno, krishna, loki, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, midgard, mjolnir, odin, oziana, ragnarok, revelation, richard wanger, ring cycle, royal timeline of oz, shiva, siegfried, siegmund, sif, the mighty thor, the sword of summer, thor, valkyries, zeus, zodiac |
Grazin’ in the Glass
An Oz story I’m working on was inspired partially by a hypothetical beginning of an Oz book that Ruth Plumly Thompson described in an interview reproduced in a Baum Bugle from the 1990s. It refers to a daughter of the … Continue reading →
Posted in Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged andrew lang, brothers grimm, brunhilda, hesperides, old rinkrank, siegfried, the baum bugle, the glass mountain, wicked witch of the east |
Norse Code
Eight Days of Luke, by Diana Wynne Jones – This story follows the pattern we often see in Jones’s books, starting with a mundane premise and bringing the magical world into play gradually. This time, the old Norse gods are … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Diana Wynne Jones, Mythology, Norse | Tagged brunhilda, eight days of luke, graeae, loki, norns, odin, siegfried, tyr |
The Ragnar Rag
One of the characters you play in Dragon Quest IV is a knight named Ragnar, and this is also one of the default names for a soldier in Dragon Quest III. And in HeroQuest, one of the quests in the … Continue reading →
Posted in Dragon Quest, History, Mythology, Norse, Scandinavia, Video Games | Tagged brunhilda, dragon quest iv, heroquest, minnesota vikings, ragnar lodbrok, ragnar mcryan, siegfried, sigurd |
Don’t Sleep in the Ring of Fire
Brunhilda is a figure from Norse myths and legends who has somehow come into popular culture as a really fat woman. In fact, thanks to Wagner, she IS the singing fat lady of the saying. And while I certainly don’t … Continue reading →
Posted in German, History, Middle Ages, Monarchy, Mythology, Norse | Tagged brunhilda, brunhilda of austrasia, grimhild, gudrun, gunnar, kremhild, niebelungenlied, odin, richard wagner, ring cycle, siegfried, sigebert of austrasia, sigurd, valkyries |