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I mostly blog about sherlock, game of thrones, american horror story, my mad fat diary, misfits, doctor who, the walking dead, cumberbatch, and hiddleston.
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In Norse myths, Odin becomes one with the great world tree Yggdrasill and thus wins knowledge of the past, the present, and the future. He also gathers knowledge through his two ravens, Hugin and Munin. Sounds kind of familiar? Probably, at least if you are a an avid Game of Thrones fan. The Three-Eyed Raven is suggestively linked to Odin, as are a lot of other themes and motifs that are borrowed from Norse mythology. The time of Norse gods, frost-giants, and giant wolves ends with ragnarök, a giant battle that seals the doom of the world. In Game of Thrones, a battle between Man and the White Walkers seems inevitable - will that also lead to the end of Westeros? Until we find out, Norse myths are a great alternative to immerse ourselves in.
Image credit: Odin in an eighteenth-century 18th century Icelandic manuscript of the Prose Edda (NKS 1867 4to). Ólafur Brynjúlfsson. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
“No homo” cries the team at the dig site. The head archaeologist sinks to his knees, sobbing. He has dedicated his entire career to the pursuit of homo habilis, an important part of the hominid evolutionary line. All his work led up to this archaeological dig site. But now, his whole life has been for nothing. There is no homo….there is only Australopithecus.
