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Macbeth + Agamemnon = Stannis.
Jun. 8th, 2015 07:17 pm( Read more... )
Jun. 8th, 2015
So, As You Know, Bob, the valkyries only get HALF of the noble slain warriors to go with Odin to Valhalla. The OTHER half of the noble slain went with Freyja to Folkvangr.
And yet nobody talks about Folkvangr. Valhalla gets all the press.
But, see, it's actually FREYJA who gets to choose which half she wants. So, y'know, you have to be a noble warrior to go to Valhalla, but you have to be a BETTER noble warrior to get to Folkvangr. Also, Folkvangr is open to people who die non-war-related noble deaths, too.
Sessrumnir, the main hall in Folkvangr, is supposed to be just as good as Vallholl in Valhalla. Also, Sessrumnir can transform into a ship, probably. 'Cause Freyja has both a ship called Sessrumnir and a hall called Sessrumnir, so it's probably a Transformer sort of deal, because that would just make sense.
But everybody's heard of Valhalla, and nobody's heard of Folkvangr. So I bet that Folkvangr is totally more authentic and less overrun with tourists. I mean, by this point, Valhalla probably has cardboard cutouts of Chris Hemsworth to take photos with in the gift shop. And I'm not saying that's bad. I'm sure that it's a lot of fun, and there's probably a lot of stuff to do. Like, maybe they get Hafthor Bjornsson, who plays Gregor Clegane, to do GAME OF THRONES-related stuff, and I bet they've got HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON-related activities for the kiddies, and like that, so it's probably a fine place to go. And, of course, Odin is also a god of wisdom and invented runes and stuff, so I bet there's stuff for the more intellectually-minded of us, too.
Don't get me wrong -- I think Valhalla is probably a perfectly lovely afterlife. And, like I said, Odin is a god of wisdom and magic and mysteries, so it's got that going for it, too.
But Freyja is, besides being a war goddess, also the goddess of love. So I count that a win for Folkvangr. Honestly, for me, it's a real tough choice between "wisdom" and "sex", but it's not like Freyja is AGAINST wisdom or anything. It's not like there WOULDN'T be magic, mystery, and learning in Folkvangr. And that it's open to non-warlike-noble-death folks is also a win. I mean, if you got killed doing search-and-rescue, or being an astronaut, or working with plague victims, or doing a hunger strike, or killed by brutality while doing non-violent resistance against a brutal regime, or something like that, you could definitely make a strong CASE for Valhalla, but Folkvangr is SPECIFICALLY open to you.
So, yeah. Folkvangr. Remember, you heard it here first. I absolutely think that it's going to be the new up-and-coming afterlife; it's just got so much in favor of it, and it's still pretty much unknown.
And yet nobody talks about Folkvangr. Valhalla gets all the press.
But, see, it's actually FREYJA who gets to choose which half she wants. So, y'know, you have to be a noble warrior to go to Valhalla, but you have to be a BETTER noble warrior to get to Folkvangr. Also, Folkvangr is open to people who die non-war-related noble deaths, too.
Sessrumnir, the main hall in Folkvangr, is supposed to be just as good as Vallholl in Valhalla. Also, Sessrumnir can transform into a ship, probably. 'Cause Freyja has both a ship called Sessrumnir and a hall called Sessrumnir, so it's probably a Transformer sort of deal, because that would just make sense.
But everybody's heard of Valhalla, and nobody's heard of Folkvangr. So I bet that Folkvangr is totally more authentic and less overrun with tourists. I mean, by this point, Valhalla probably has cardboard cutouts of Chris Hemsworth to take photos with in the gift shop. And I'm not saying that's bad. I'm sure that it's a lot of fun, and there's probably a lot of stuff to do. Like, maybe they get Hafthor Bjornsson, who plays Gregor Clegane, to do GAME OF THRONES-related stuff, and I bet they've got HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON-related activities for the kiddies, and like that, so it's probably a fine place to go. And, of course, Odin is also a god of wisdom and invented runes and stuff, so I bet there's stuff for the more intellectually-minded of us, too.
Don't get me wrong -- I think Valhalla is probably a perfectly lovely afterlife. And, like I said, Odin is a god of wisdom and magic and mysteries, so it's got that going for it, too.
But Freyja is, besides being a war goddess, also the goddess of love. So I count that a win for Folkvangr. Honestly, for me, it's a real tough choice between "wisdom" and "sex", but it's not like Freyja is AGAINST wisdom or anything. It's not like there WOULDN'T be magic, mystery, and learning in Folkvangr. And that it's open to non-warlike-noble-death folks is also a win. I mean, if you got killed doing search-and-rescue, or being an astronaut, or working with plague victims, or doing a hunger strike, or killed by brutality while doing non-violent resistance against a brutal regime, or something like that, you could definitely make a strong CASE for Valhalla, but Folkvangr is SPECIFICALLY open to you.
So, yeah. Folkvangr. Remember, you heard it here first. I absolutely think that it's going to be the new up-and-coming afterlife; it's just got so much in favor of it, and it's still pretty much unknown.