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Freya | It's Norse, Of Course

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

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The Differences Between Norse Mythology and Western Folklore

Freya: A lot of my assumptions or the kind of Grico Roman tradition of mythology that you know you and I read books about in elementary school lead me to false assumptions about Norse mythology. There are big societal differences between what was happening with the Norse and Germanic people versus what was happening in ancient Greece and ancient Rome so I think that as we go through these episodes keeping that in mind really does help us understand like oh these were very different cultures they valued different things and we see that in the gods that they have in their stories.

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