![]() The headaches had faded almost five days ago, and at this point I was ready to stab something, just so that I could have a reason to do the purification rite. I kept trying to sneak out and go to the library, at least, but the teachers were very serious that they meant mental rest, as well as physical. I’d been ordered to rest in the aftermath of my head injury, and it turned out I was not very good at it. In just a few weeks, the Monarch of the Aerie would be traveling to Bridehive to sign our treaty, and in the meantime, we were all trying to rebuild our hometown from the mess the Khar had made of it. He’d been working too hard, but then it wasn’t so surprising. Gone again, and the sun was barely over the windowsill. My questing hand found a warm place between otherwise empty sheets, and I grumbled sadly beneath my breath. I blinked my eyes open into watery sunlight, yawning and stretching, and reaching out blindly for Énna. Summary: While Énna prepares to negotiate a treaty with the Aerie, Ryder tries to solve a set of mysterious drownings in the southern part of Bridehive. Warnings: Vicious fantasy violence, disease, drowning The mead of poetry was returned to them, but Kvasir himself returned in a different form, nine months later, when Gunnlod gave birth to Odin’s son Bragi, who is called first maker of poetry and who could he be but another form of Kvasir, with a sobriquet like that? Continue reading “The Story of Bragi and Iðunn” → Tagged apples of iðunn, bragi, f/m, iðunn, norse mythology Leave a comment Augury Series, Original Fiction Augury of Water In the rest of the story, it is told how Odin All-father made love to the giantess Gunnlod and stole the mead of Kvasir from Suttung her father to bring it back to the gods. The story keeps going, and as he was a god of stories or of poetry or skaldishness, this shows you that he cannot have died the way a mortal might, to pass out of touch with this world. He was not an ordinary sort of fellow, at any rate, but he was murdered by two dwarfs who cut his throat to make mead from his blood and that was the end of his first story, or at least his part in it. Kvasir was a god created from the spit of the Aesir and Vanir, or perhaps he was a man. When gods die, sometimes they return in new ways. Many thanks to kimikocha and Husband, for beta-ing! I have made up most of this, though I have tried to make it sound Norse mythology-ish, at least. There have been previous suggestions of Bragi’s connection to Kvasir, but as far as I know, this is nothing more than speculation. First: the notion of a connection between Iðunn and the sons of Ivaldi is attested, and the description of the story of Kvasir is well-known. ![]() Summary: Before Bragi, the long-bearded god, came to Valhalla, he met a beautiful woman in a deep forest, who asked him to judge a contest between herself and her brothers.Ī/N: This story is largely fanciful, based on a few tantalizing hints. ![]()
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