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dhampyresa) wrote2010-01-27 10:23 am
dhampyresa) wrote2010-01-27 10:23 am
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Fimbulvetr
I'm also quite proud of this, despite the relatively short time I wrote it in. (Saved from the meme, will de-anon on main comm when Nordics series is over)
Number 3: Norway
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by mythological creatures waxing philosophical are strictly their own.
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Fimbulvetr
The Nation of the Northern Way lives in the town of Hafrsfjord. He is a scrawny child, with hair soft and pale as falling snow and eyes the color of the water of the fjords.
This child as grown up being told that he is Norðvegr.
He has led his life being assured that he is the Nation, the land and the people.
This is a puzzle for him.
How, he asks, how can one man be a Nation?
The adults smile at that, And how, they answer, can a ring bring down the gods and end the world?
The child has no answer to this question. How, indeed.
This is what the child thinks about late at night, when he cannot sleep and stares at the ceiling.
This is what the child wonders in the cold he cannot feel when everyone else can.
It is the subject of his meditations on the cliff. He ponders the ring and the fall and who he is. And every night he walks home again. But every time, he comes back later. And every day, it becomes more likely that he will not come home again.
One day that he is more determined to prove the people wrong on his immortality, he meets the most improbable of visitors. A Walkyrie.
Norðweg is not a very talkative person and neither is Brünnhilde, but they talk.
They talk about who he is.
They talk about who she is and wether she made the right choices.
"There are no right choices" says the child, "only the choices you make and the consequence they yield and wether you accept those or not".
"There are no right choices" says Noregr who is wiser than his years. And Brünnhilde thinks that maybe there is hope for the world.
They talk about the fall.
"It is not the fall that kills you" says Brünnhilde, "it is the ground." And Norga nods because that is true and he knows it.
They talk about how, in the end, flying and falling are not so different.
And then, they talk about the end of the world. Ragnarökkr. The Doom of the gods.
That in turn brings in talk of the ring.
The Ring of the Nibelung is a small thing and it wields the greatest of consequences.
Brünnhilde leaves her burden with Kongeriket Norge.
How strange that something so small would be so dangerous thinks the child who sits on the cliff and will not go home that night.
No stranger than a child who is a Nation says a voice in his mind and the smallest of smiles graces the face of the kingdom of Norway.
The child who now accepts who he is closes his hand and the Ring digs into his palm. And he forgets about the fall.
And Norway sits on the cliff, looks at the horizon and waits for the dawn of what is to come.
(I hope these notes aren't too much tl;dr.)
Fimbulvetr: (meaning 'the great winter')in Norse mythology, the winter preceding Ragnarökkr. ((Extra notes: Said to be three extremely cold winters with no interceding summers and a time where there will be many wars and brothers will kill brothers. Sometimes linked to the climate change in Scandinavia around 650 BC. Also used in Nordics countries to describe a particularly harsh winter.))
Norðvegr, Norðweg, Noregr, Norga, Kongeriket Norge and Nation of the Northern Way are all used to described Norway.
Norðvegr, Norðweg and Noregr are in, more or less, chronological order the variations of etymology of Norway.
Nation of the Northern Way is the english translation of the original meaning of Norway.
Norga is North Sami for Norway and Kongeriket Norge is the official name of the country.
Brünnhilde is a Walkyrie, a spirit who collects the men fallen on the battle field and brings them to Vahalla. She is also a character of Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. In the end, it is her who destroys the Ring. As Wagner made up the Rhinemaiden characters, here, her way of 'destroying' the Ring is to give it to norway.
The Ring of the Nibelung is a ring forged from Rhine gold and cursed so that all those who have it die a tragic death and all those who don't want it. (It is the inspiration for the Ring of power in Tolkien's lord of the Rings.)
Ragnarökkr (also Ragnarökr or Ragnarök) is the End of the World in Norse mythology.
I hope OP doesn't mind that I fill this for a third time. (And probably a fourth and fifth, too.)
Number 3: Norway
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by mythological creatures waxing philosophical are strictly their own.
-----
Fimbulvetr
The Nation of the Northern Way lives in the town of Hafrsfjord. He is a scrawny child, with hair soft and pale as falling snow and eyes the color of the water of the fjords.
This child as grown up being told that he is Norðvegr.
He has led his life being assured that he is the Nation, the land and the people.
This is a puzzle for him.
How, he asks, how can one man be a Nation?
The adults smile at that, And how, they answer, can a ring bring down the gods and end the world?
The child has no answer to this question. How, indeed.
This is what the child thinks about late at night, when he cannot sleep and stares at the ceiling.
This is what the child wonders in the cold he cannot feel when everyone else can.
It is the subject of his meditations on the cliff. He ponders the ring and the fall and who he is. And every night he walks home again. But every time, he comes back later. And every day, it becomes more likely that he will not come home again.
One day that he is more determined to prove the people wrong on his immortality, he meets the most improbable of visitors. A Walkyrie.
Norðweg is not a very talkative person and neither is Brünnhilde, but they talk.
They talk about who he is.
They talk about who she is and wether she made the right choices.
"There are no right choices" says the child, "only the choices you make and the consequence they yield and wether you accept those or not".
"There are no right choices" says Noregr who is wiser than his years. And Brünnhilde thinks that maybe there is hope for the world.
They talk about the fall.
"It is not the fall that kills you" says Brünnhilde, "it is the ground." And Norga nods because that is true and he knows it.
They talk about how, in the end, flying and falling are not so different.
And then, they talk about the end of the world. Ragnarökkr. The Doom of the gods.
That in turn brings in talk of the ring.
The Ring of the Nibelung is a small thing and it wields the greatest of consequences.
Brünnhilde leaves her burden with Kongeriket Norge.
How strange that something so small would be so dangerous thinks the child who sits on the cliff and will not go home that night.
No stranger than a child who is a Nation says a voice in his mind and the smallest of smiles graces the face of the kingdom of Norway.
The child who now accepts who he is closes his hand and the Ring digs into his palm. And he forgets about the fall.
And Norway sits on the cliff, looks at the horizon and waits for the dawn of what is to come.
(I hope these notes aren't too much tl;dr.)
Fimbulvetr: (meaning 'the great winter')in Norse mythology, the winter preceding Ragnarökkr. ((Extra notes: Said to be three extremely cold winters with no interceding summers and a time where there will be many wars and brothers will kill brothers. Sometimes linked to the climate change in Scandinavia around 650 BC. Also used in Nordics countries to describe a particularly harsh winter.))
Norðvegr, Norðweg, Noregr, Norga, Kongeriket Norge and Nation of the Northern Way are all used to described Norway.
Norðvegr, Norðweg and Noregr are in, more or less, chronological order the variations of etymology of Norway.
Nation of the Northern Way is the english translation of the original meaning of Norway.
Norga is North Sami for Norway and Kongeriket Norge is the official name of the country.
Brünnhilde is a Walkyrie, a spirit who collects the men fallen on the battle field and brings them to Vahalla. She is also a character of Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. In the end, it is her who destroys the Ring. As Wagner made up the Rhinemaiden characters, here, her way of 'destroying' the Ring is to give it to norway.
The Ring of the Nibelung is a ring forged from Rhine gold and cursed so that all those who have it die a tragic death and all those who don't want it. (It is the inspiration for the Ring of power in Tolkien's lord of the Rings.)
Ragnarökkr (also Ragnarökr or Ragnarök) is the End of the World in Norse mythology.
I hope OP doesn't mind that I fill this for a third time. (And probably a fourth and fifth, too.)