WELCOME TO ASGARD!

This is the home of the Norse Gods (the Aesir). It is not a perky place. It is not a fun place. It is the sort of place where dieties watch Full Metal Jacket all day long, listen to the screams of weak marmosets as they are ripped apart by evil emus, and gnaw on the eyes that were torn out of innocent bunnies. In short, it is not a place of radiant joy or assuring bliss. It is a dark, dank, icky place that reeks of inevitable doom. Asgard itself is the land of the Aesir where all the gods' palaces and halls are. Here the gods feast, practice battle, and do other god stuff. One of the most interesting myths that involves Asgard is a story about a wall.

The Aesir gods are good at building palaces of gold and such but cannot build a strong wall of defense against the Jotunheim (a race of giants). So they find a giant that will actually build their wall. The only real snag is that for payment he wants the sun and the moon and the goddess Freyr. Well, none of the gods want that to happen so they were going to send the giant away, but Loki comes up with a plan to avoid the payment. He tells the giant that he has six months to build the wall, a supposedly impossible feat. The giant says he'll do it if he can use his horse. Odin agrees and the giant begins work. He and his horse are going very fast with the building and Odin gets worried. When there are only a couple weeks left of the deadline, Odin sees that the giant will succeed so starts yelling at Loki along with the rest of the Aesir gods. Loki takes off and promises to fix things. Now the last month of the deadline was in the early spring and the giant's horse was a little anxious to do some frolicking. Well, sure enough, one day a young filly shows up, and the horse goes bounding after her. The giant looks for his horse for a while and then hurries back to work. After the time he lost looking for the horse and doing the work without the horse, he doesn't finish the wall. He's about to leave when Thor comes back after some adventure to destroy the Jotunheim and just kills the giant without a second thought. Things kind of slip back into the former routine when Loki comes back with an eight-legged horse to give to Odin. It turns out that Loki, a shapeshifter, had turned himself into the young filly that tempted the giant's horse and had gotten pregnant and given birth to the eight-legged horse that he brought back to Odin. The horse becomes Odin's favorite and Loki is received back into the Aesir without any hitches. Now, after that story don't you just want to click on these links and find out more about these wonderful characters of Norse Mythology? Why don't you just click one and find some other great stories and descriptions.

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