The Vanir

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• JA

  @JacksonCrawford · 5 years ago · pinned

  This video from 2018 references a Discord channel connected to my Patreon community. This was a short-lived experiment in 2018 that did not last.

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• SA

  @sashapetrenko74 · 6 years ago

  Though ripe with rich commentary, my favorite part of the video is "I'll eat my hat if you can make me think otherwise," followed closely by "by his feet alone, which surely excites some corners of the internet."

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• DO

  @DonV-95 · 5 years ago (edited)

  &quot;She chose her husband by his feet alone&quot;<br>&quot;..... I&apos;m sure that excites some corners of the internet&quot;<br><br>Broooo that was just so abrupt and nonchalant it totally caught me off guard 😂😂😂

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• KO

  @kokofan50 · 8 years ago

  This reminds me of European royal families. The families are so intermixed that you can talk about them as on big family, but you can also talk about them as different entities with different statues.

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• IS

  @Isaiah-tp1nc · 8 years ago

  I&apos;m so glad to have came across this youtube channel, Dr. Crawford is a reliable source of information regarding Norse history, language, and culture without being spoiled by any sorta political agenda, I&apos;ve been a fan for only two months but I&apos;m already excited for his translated book of the Volsung Sagas, keep up the good work Dr. Crawford, I&apos;m excited to learn more.

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• GI

  @gizmogoose.2486 · 8 years ago

  &quot;The Sun, the Moon, the Earth, ...Beer. <br>Nordic Priorities!

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• TR

  @traditionaltaekwondoramblings · 8 years ago

  My favourite part of this video? When he casually says that he will have more works published soon :-D I just finished the Volsung and Ragnar sagas (which I read just after finishing his Poetic Edda translation). I LOVE this mans work! <br><br>As a Norwegian I have in my possession quite a few translations of the Poetic Edda as well as a few sagas, but they’re all translated into a very archaic form of Norwegian which makes it difficult to read. It was a whole new experience reading through his translations :-) I can not recommend people checking out his books enough.

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• SA

  @SatyaVenugopal · 6 years ago

  Tiny correction re: pronunciation - The &apos;s&apos; in the Sanskrit &apos;asura&apos; is a regular s, as an Aesir, not an &apos;sh&apos; sound (so it would be transliterated asura rather than aśura).<br><br>PS: You&apos;re certainly correct that asura is nowadays seen as meaning a class of demonic beings. This association comes from later (i.e. Epic and Puranik) Hindu mythology. In the Rigveda where the term first appears, the term seems more ambiguous, as some divine and some demonic beings are both called asuras.

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• GW

  @gweiloxiu9862 · 8 years ago

  &quot;Rudy&apos;s a great guy&quot;. &nbsp;Hearing Crawford talk about Simek is like listening to Iron Man talk about Wolverine. &nbsp;Glad to be alive and so heavily invested in this field in a time of such titans.

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• TH

  @TheDreamSyndicateArts · 8 years ago

  I enjoyed the video and the Colorado landscape.

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• LU

  @luise.j · 8 years ago

  Simek is my professor at university, he is amazing. We actually talked about this exact controversy. Meaning whether there are different families of gods or not. I really enjoy watching your videos, and I think it&apos;s great to get a second, also well-educated opinion on matters like these. Thank you.

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• LO

  @LooniJoose · 5 years ago

  Dt. Crawford is a national treasure and we must protect him with our lives. 👑

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