Beliefs+and+Stories,+Giants,+Gods+and+Creation-DN

Beliefs & Stories, Giants, Gods and creation - Daniel
﻿ Remember How is modern christmas celebrated with the mix of pagan and Christian traditions? The Christmas of today is celebrated in different ways around the world. The most common is with people decorating a special tree with ornaments and lights, hanging wreaths, Christmas stockings and candy canes. Christmas carols are sung to depict Christian traditions and stories are told about them. The burning of Yule log is also a part of the celebration. Why did Vikings choose to cremate love ones?  The vikings cremated their loved ones after death because they wanted to go to Valhalla which was the Norse heaven. Odin said that all Vikings who died in battle should be burnt with their possessions so when they go to Valhalla they will get their belongings in the afterlife too. 

﻿ Understand ﻿ Odin  Thor was the god of thunder, sky and and is also the most popular god from the rest of them. He was good-hearted. Thor was the most barbarian of all of the other gods and was a bit stupid. Although that he has the qualities that vikings think were the most important. Thor had stength and determination. Thor’s job mainly was to protect Asgard. T﻿hor  Thor was the god of thunder, sky and and is also the most popular god from the rest of them. He was good-hearted. Thor was the most barbarian of all of the other gods and was a bit stupid. Although that he has the qualities that vikings think were the most important. Thor had stength and determination. Thor’s job mainly was to protect Asgard. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> Loki <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: yellow; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;">Loki was the trickster of the lot. He was half spirit half god, and was a fire spirit. Loki somewhat possesses demonic qualities as he is a half spirit. Loki is a helper and also a foe to the Aesir. Sometimes he helps them get out of trouble and then he spawns the most terrifying monsters. Loki was responsible for Balder’s death. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">Freya <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 10pt;">Freya was the goddesses of love, beauty and also magic. Freya was part of the Vanir who was with nature, animals and stuff like that. People thought that Freya was of higher status than the Aesir and was called many names such as “The Frowe” and “The Lady”. Freya was also the Queen of Valkyries who chose those who were battle slain to enter Valhalla, the Norse heaven. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">Balder <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: yellow; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;">Balder was the god of peace, joy and spring. He was loved by everybody. Loki was responsible for Balder’s death when he tricked Balder’s blind brother, Hodur into throwing a dart into Balder. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #0000ff; font-size: 10pt;">﻿ // WHEN A …// // Sudden // thunderstorm occurs… IT WAS THOR

// WHEN YOU FIND… // A seam of amber in the Earth… IT MUST HAVE BEEN FREYA!

// IF THERE WAS… // AN EARTHQUAKE… BLAME ODIN! // IF A MAGICAL SPELL THAT INVOLVES RUNES IS MADE… // IT HAS TO BE LOKI!

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__**Thor,Protector of Asgard**__
<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"><span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">﻿ Analyse <span style="background-color: #000000; color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">SAGAS Sagas were ancient stories of Scandinavian and Germanic history. They told of Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyage to Iceland and of the feuds with the Iceland families. These sagas were written in the old Norse language and were often written in poems, they're described as epic. The sagas were often real except for the legendary sagas like the saga of saints and the saga of bishops. The Vikings orally passed on the sagas to the younger generations which later on passed it on to much younger generations and it keeps on going. The skald was a person who composed and recited poems to tell people of heroic deeds and the hero.

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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Design The wind was strong, in the ocean and on a ship heading to where great land awaits the Vikings. Agni a young viking with a great future in sea ahead of him was rowing the ship in a fast manner and working hard to keep up the pace. The days went by, the ship Agni was on was getting warmer as the sun glistened to the reflection of the water onto the vikings faces. This meant closer to where they were off to. Land was not far the group could see it just slowly enlarging and coming closer. The group was just about to pull their ship up into the bay when all of a sudden men ran out of the bushes and surrounded Agni and his fellow vikings. These men were waiting for him. Agni was terrified, being a new warrior and still experiencing things. The men came closer but was scared as they touched the boat a thunderstorm broke out and made everything dark. Agni survived and went back to his family to tell of what happened. It was Thor and his hammer, Mjollnir.