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Talking Nordic Animism | Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen

Rune Soup

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The Origins of Norse Mythology

I was I was fascinated by this from the beginning with my grandmother, by the way, who read these stories to me. And that's possibly the most Christian thing about it is considering the Eddas like the Old Testament because very early Christianity literally did that with the Old Testament went back through it looking for typological similarities they could consider to be foreshadowings of Christ and you see people in the Renaissance doing something similar with classical Greek thought. So that's interesting.

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