One foot in ice and one in fire

[sovay]

The glacier under which Loki lies bound is Vatnajökull, the lake-glacier. This is not the glacier whose recent volcanic eruption has closed airspace in much of northern Europe on account of the fallout ash turns to glass in jet engines. But given the massive international chaos Eyjafjallajökull is generating, what do you bet Loptr takes credit for it anyway?

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[sovay]

I shall have to check Gods back out of the library and pick up where I left off.

It didn't blow my mind, actually. I think Neil Gaiman loves Norse mythology, but I am not convinced by his handling of it—his Loki is consistently too much like the Lokasenna and not enough like all the other aspects of this shape-changing trickster.

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

Norse stuff is difficult to get a handle on, frankly, both in a literary and a ritual sense. I feel a bit sorry for my Asatru friends who must placate these weird, tempermental gods ...

Which leads to a question on ancient myth and ritual that I've been worrying at so far without result. Perhaps you can help? I shall e-mail it to you privately via LJ ...

[mmseason.livejournal.com]

Michael Scott Rohan?

(Landed here from papersky. Hi! (How do i link to a username...?))

[sovay]

Michael Scott Rohan?

Never read him. What do you recommend!

Landed here from papersky. Hi!

Hello! Pleased to meet you.

(How do i link to a username...?)

Take out the spaces:

< lj - user = [insert username here] >