Norse Quotes

I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.Had Ragnarok happened yet? Was it still to happen? I did not know then. I am not certain now.

Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left armpit, and one of his legs fathered a son on the other leg.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Rash is he who at unknown doors relies on his good luck.

Hávamál

Master of magic, god of war, Odin wanders alone.

I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.