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giving the fairest feet a fairer shot.

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While there are cosmological reasons that Skaði & Njörðr don't work out, NorsePlay asks what if instead of calling it off because there wasn't an agreeable place to live together that they had given say just a Monday a week to see each other? Not her mountain hall, nor his seaside home, but somewhere between where no wolves nor seabirds would upset them, just a space for them alone? She could bring venison, and he shark, they could cook over the hearthfire, and instead of worrying over the obligations of their divine purviews, they could just fully enjoy each other, admiring & appreciating the differences, realizing that between them they ruled even more together than apart, and finding that common ground on a ... well, common ground. And they could've added BBQs & kubb, or hnefatafl  on Sundays with Freyr & Freyja, just to try it out. It's all a rather big maybe, but given the social weights & measures of Viking-period Icelandic society &...

contemporary Norse Goddess meme: Skaði.

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Fifth in the Norse Goddess meme series we have the huntress Skaði , a Jötunndaughter by descent who becomes Aesir by marriage. Associated with winter, bowhunting, and mountains, it's a theory that her name is the root for Scandinavia, which would imply that she's very important. Also, her name could possibly be a version of "wound" or "damage", which emotionally fits with her initial revenge quest for her father's death. We especially love the pallid & otherworldly depiction in the second panel. [Found on a VK Wall. If anyone knows who originally designed these, do let me know. (And if it's from a known meme generator, do let me know which as I'd love to make some in the same style.)] #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Myt...