# Norse Mythology

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Category: Mythology
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:53.727Z
Tags: mythology, norse

## Summary

The Norse gods are unique among the major mythological systems in knowing, from the start, how the world ends. They lose. They fight anyway. Key sections include: Norse & Eddic.; Opening Gods who knew they would die.; Chapter I Ginnungagap.; Chapter II The nine worlds.; Chapter III Odin.; Chapter IV Thor.; Chapter V Loki.; Chapter VI The goddesses.; Chapter VII The first war.; Chapter VIII The death of Baldur..

## Slide Outline

1. Norse & Eddic.
2. Opening Gods who knew they would die.
3. Chapter I Ginnungagap.
4. Chapter II The nine worlds.
5. Chapter III Odin.
6. Chapter IV Thor.
7. Chapter V Loki.
8. Chapter VI The goddesses.
9. Chapter VII The first war.
10. Chapter VIII The death of Baldur.
11. Chapter IX The doom of the gods.
12. Chapter X The Poetic Edda.
13. Chapter XI Snorri's Edda.
14. Chapter XII The skalds.
15. Chapter XIII The saga tradition.
16. Chapter XIV Sigurd and Brynhild.
17. Chapter XV The Ring of the Nibelung.
18. Chapter XVI The end of the cult.
19. Chapter XVII Runes and inscriptions.
20. Chapter XVIII Tolkien's Norse.
21. Chapter XIX The current Norse moment.
22. Chapter XX The Norse ethic.
23. Chapter XXI Twenty-five.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII Why we still read these.
26. Chapter XXIV An order of operations.
27. Chapter XXV Where it is now.
28. Chapter XXVI The other Germanic systems.
29. Chapter XXVII The shape of fate.
30. The end of the deck.

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