It really weirded me out when I first started watching Thor and realised the aesir are seen as similar to 'aliens' and they travel in 'space', with Asgard being a 'planet'.
For context, I'm Scandinavian and I've been learning about the aesir as a part of our history since I was a child. This was obligatory content in early elementary school.
Midgard and Asgard for me was the viking equivalent of earth and heaven (or one of the heavenly realms, there's also Valhalla etc). When Jesus ascends to heaven do we call it space travel? Seems super odd to me. 😅
Asgard being a place from where anybody could physically travel and arrive back seemed absurd and almost blasphemous. Similar to reaching the higher existential plane of Nirvana, just to buy a holiday cottage and then take your spaceship home again.
Maybe I'm just being silly because obviously the Vikings didn't have the knowledge and reference points of what a planet even is, but I couldn't help but feel like it diminished the meaning of who the aesir are. As if they are just another planet with just another group of inhabitants. I got used to it pretty quick but yeah. Was this just me?
