: [snip]
: All very good stuff, but I recently got this in the email
: from "Moonshade", and just haven't had time
: to post it yet: Hey, I was reading Mickey Zucker
: Reichert's "Bifrost Guardians" and ran
: into this interesting passage...
: Brother fights with brother,
: they butcher each other;
: daughters and sons
: incestuously mix;
: man is a plaything
: of mighty whoredoms;
: an axe-time, a sword-time
: shields shall be split;
: a wind age, a wolf-age,
: before the World ends
: Last two lines are especially interesting, make of them
: what you will. :)
: Moonshade
: Note the "an axe-time, a sword-time", and
: "a wind age, a wolf-age". Now where's the
: Age of Reason in there?
Oh! that's right! That's from Voluspa, right? I thought it was from some part of the Poetic Edda; I love Norse stuff :-). Insest was particularly disturbing to the Norse as well, and so none of the Norse Gods after the Aesir tribes took over were insetual, unlike the Classical Gods, and the Ancient Greeks themselves…
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