No wonder why they share some common stuff, such as Odin being crucified.The gods are very old but the Nordic myths are new.
Claiming that Nordic paganism was developed after Christianity because Norse myths were first written down after the Christianization of Scandinavia is like claiming Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime beliefs only began to exist after the British colonization of Australia, because there are no Australian Aboriginal written records.They are flawed claims because they presuppose the need for written records in order to assert the existence of a belief.
>>17277501If it wasn't recorded did it really exist?
>>17277520Archaeological findings of artistic works that can be related to well-know myths ought to offer us a clue, at least, as to which myths may have already existed prior to their compilation in written form.This medal here depicts a man being bitten in the hand by a wolf, which can be related to the Norse myth of Tyr having his hand ripped off by the wolf Fenrir as the wolf was being bound.
>>17277520Yes. What you're doing right now is like arguing that all stories about the Trojan War or Oedipus were purely creations of the iron age. Heroic and cultural folklore was "recorded" in oral tradition by poets and priests in all IE culture long before anything was written down.
>>17277520Are you really that retarded?
>>17277441some of the recorded poetry was composed relatively late (I believe the Runatal and Ljothatal sections of Havamal post-date the conversion of Iceland), but what we always tend to find is that even poetry which is composed late substantially comports with what we know of Norse paganism via earlier poems.The Runatal section for instance, where Odin hangs himself to discover the runes, is strikingly similar to Odin entering a trance after being tortured in Grimnismal, a poem that was composed 300 years earlier.So quite frankly neither the late composition of some poems and recordation of all of them gives me reason to question their authenticity, and I think the people who do attack the authenticity of the poetic edda are either arguing from ignorance or bad faith
>Talk about nordic paganism>Ignore all the Finno-ugricsWhy do retards do this?
