#brage

+plus Chex and Brage fighting bc they bit Chex's arm off, silly creatures lol

Ved Brages åsyn vil jeg veve

vers av vakre ord.

Som runer vil de vekkes

av en nåde stor.

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Vil Apollons lyre lede vei

skulle jeg ha gått meg vill.

Må musene forlokke meg

dit min stemme hører til.

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Det må da være guder

som har ført min penn i kveld.

Slik skjønnhet kan umulig

stamme fra meg selv.

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Have you ever made something that you look at years later and still think it was great? Something you created and even though you know you have improved, that thing is still one of the best you made? I have a few poems like that. That is what inspired this one.

Idun and Brage are an odd pair of gods from Norse mythology.

Idun is the most legit of the two. She is mentioned as being the goddess in charge of the golden apples that keep the other gods young, though one text suggest she might be keeping them young simply by living in Asgard. She is supposedly also quite fond of sex. Freya is often assumed to be the most promiscuous of the goddesses, but according to Loki Idun is far more active on that scene. One of her names even means "mistress/lover of the gods" so it would seem she got around.

Scholars aren't quite sure what she even is. There's some suggestion she might be one of the Vanir (same tribe as Freya and Freyr) because Freyr has some golden apples of his own in one story. Vanir and elves are also closely connected, so some think Idun might be an elf because there's a whole story surrounding why Freya and Freyr lives in Asgard that would make it kinda weird for Idun to live there too if she's a Vanir. Elves were seen as lesser nature gods so it would still make her a legit god.

Brage's claim to fame as a god is less legit. He is often cited as being god of music and poetry, but nowhere in the old texts is he actually called a god and there's evidence of real humans going by the same name. It was unheard of for humans to be named after gods, so it seems likely that Brage despite being the son of Odin wasn't a god himself. He was just a human who lived in Asgard because his wife and father were gods. That would also explain why he apparently was quite the coward in battle. He was just a puny human going up against gods. (Then again he might have been a really good poet who was made a god by later people, but I think my version is more fun)

Bc i think they would look cool

Dont they look pretty ✨️🐗🐊