Norsery Rhymes from A to Z Durabor - The Slumbering Boar
Happy Thorsday! - Here’s another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic, Celtic) mythological characters. This week it’s Durabor / Duraborr / Durathor. A notable Boar likely interpreted wrongly from the Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda.
A magical sleeping boar that likely was a misunderstanding of the translation of the name of one of the deer Duraþrór / Durathror that eat the branches of the world tree. Whose name translates literally as ‘sleeping boar’. Though likely was an indication of it’s snoring, or the sound of breaking breaking branches as it walks among them..
Even though Durathor the slumbering boar was likely initially a misunderstanding, I wanted to include it for completions sake, and because as with most ideas, once created it’s hard to ignore. Much like the sounds of a large porcine snore.
