Pagan Trinket Box

"Hey, this woman has tried to poison me multiple times. What do I do?"

What made the ancient norse think that a ship was being built out of dead people's finger nails?

Me: Norse mythology has no real canon. It was shared verbally and so severely fucked with when it was finally written down. Really there is no right or wrong and all versions and interpretations are mostly valid. The myths we have now might be bs, we don't know, so fuck it!

Why does Frigg get no attention?

So Frigg asks a favor of one of the dwarves and he's like "yeah I'll do it, but only if you smile at me"

So when the berserkers go into a confrontational fit of blind rage, they're blessed by Odin

"It is clear that from such an array of sources... no coherent account of Norse mythology can be extracted, and, indeed, there is no reason to assume that the myths seek to express a single, orthodox belief."