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Which means a day off work ;-).

Well yeah, that too! (◡‿◡✿)

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Wow! Beautiful!

Ooh mein Schatz, how could you ever allow yourself to be brushed upon by such a vile thought! Know, young lady, that my magnificence relishes the sound of hearts all a-flutter around these nether regions of the fandom. In other words, I crave your stalking.

(That, by the way, was a poor attempt at hiding my blushing from your delicate attention and thanking you, yes, actually, for following me. A bit failed, I might add. Let us move on quickly.)

Of Apples in Asgard

So, first and foremost, a word from the ever-industrious (battle-ready, and full of ideas, and muy valiosa on the whole) and resourceful Artabria who just this to me:

I think Chris Hemsworth mentioned once that they weren’t going back to the apples. If I remember correctly (someone with the Thor DVD should check) the apples appear in Thor: they are in the table that Thor throws down. But I don’t think they make you immortal (Odin was about to retire, after all) or slow your aging. Like the Frost Giants, the Asgardians are probably just long lived. (Also, YAY! Someone else agrees with me about Loki’s magic in the MCU!)

(Note: the conversation happens after this post happened. Thought you might want to know.)

Are there really apples in Asgard? I wrote a post once about Asgardian home décor and the patterns in throne room, and it appears that either apples are a legendary fruit much rumoured, or you can eat boring, run-of-the-mill apples for when you’re a bit peckish.

Here is Odin’s bedpost (original image there) as we may find it in a deleted scene far clearer than the definitive edition:

Also consider this:

To me, it looks like the doors behind the throne are ornate with a stylised apple tree, or rather - this is Yggdrasil stylised as an apple tree.

If I were to write a fanfiction right now, I’d say that the apples are part of Asgard’s lore; as Valhalla is very probably not a real place, there may be myths and tales on Asgard about the bounties of the Asgardian way of life. Perhaps, a very long time ago, the ancestors of Odin acquired the means to prolong their life artificially, and the legends have passed on to the next generations as poetic stories about magic fruits?

Table flip!

I think there may be red apples on the left. Genuine, the apples. Biteable, I mean. Not break-your-godly-teeth-metal apples.

Oh dear, I am so relieved - for a terrifying minute (alright: four months), I believed myself to be the only one anguishing over the silly teeth stuff. Here, allow Nic Cage’s relieved face to speak for me:

(Why is that man so hypnotic, albeit in a very frightening way?)