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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Subject: Re: Frigga
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Date: Wed, 14-Mar-84 13:24:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 14 13:24:07 1984
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| If you had to put up with an overweight, one-eyed grouch who leaves on
| the slightest whim for the far reaches of the universe, who keeps
| wolves and ravens around the house at all times (maybe even in the
| bedroom), and whose subjects are all a bunch of rejects from Warner
| Brother's Robin Hood flick (fighting and drinking and wenching and
| fighting and wenching and drinking and probably puking with Olympian
| style...), you wouldn't look like Cheryl Tiegs either.  Christ, and can
| you imagine what she gets from Loki on Mother's Day?
| 
| 			"Peel me another grape, Lorilei..."
| 
| 						Moriarty

I have followed the behaviour of the Marvel Norse for a while now.
REAL STRANGE>>  What did all those raunchy Asgardian males do while all
their females were away?  Recall that homosexuality was considered to be
so unthinkably horrid that the mere suggestion was enough to cause wars
(IN NORDIC CULTURE, no flames, please, fact are facts.)

No wonder Balder went after Karnilla.

Some things they have failed to note:  Firstly, and as is well established,
the Asgardians are MORTALS!!  They attain their extremely protracted lifespan
from the Golden Apples of Youth, kept by the goddess Idunn, and these apples
are at least a major part of the reason why the Frost and Fire Giants hate
and envy the Norse.
Also, WHERE ARE THE ELVES?  Not the cutesy-poo elves of later England, the
children of Frey, who were REAL DIRE enemies and the Asgardians kept them
as loose allies.

This Allfather bullsh*t is complete nonsense.  In Norse myth, Thor was the
peace-chief of the Asgardians, and his father Odin was the War chief.
This contrasted with their natures well:  Thor was a fierce and powerful
warrior, but not wise enough in War to be the general.  Odin, who was a
magician and a learned man, but not their greatest warrior, was at the
same time the best General, due to his incredible ways of gathering data
on his enemies.  The Asgardians are children of Chaos, just like most other
deities.

Loki is the bastard son of someone, probably Odin, and a Fire Giantess.
He was god of fire (Loki means Fire) and was mischievous, sly, and nasty
but never really evil.  He was CHAOTIC, which was why Thor really liked
him (they shared a common sense of humor) but normally had the best interests
of the Asgardians in mind.  He was hardly a god of Evil.

Oh - the reason why I quoted Moriarty above . . . Frigga, and Odin, ought
to both be physically about forty, at the latest - recall those Apples?
Well, I conjectured that Marvel could cover up by saying that the Asgardians
can choose to make their appearance reflect their "nature" and that this
is evident in Balder's decline into porkitude.  He chooses to be the
opposite of a warrior, so grows fat and soft.  This is not necessary, since
there are a number of athletes who are not warriors.  The IDEA is the thing.
Therefore, Odin looks old, so as to command respect, and Frigga follows
suit so as to keep Odin from looking like a cradlerobber.

Hutch