Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccrrick From: ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: re: Who will rule Asgard? Message-ID: <20@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 01:40:28 EDT Article-I.D.: ucdavis.20 Posted: Sat Aug 24 01:40:28 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 00:55:57 EDT References: <111@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 14 > Given that Simonson is pretty knowledgeable of his sources, the only real > choices he has for rulers of Asgard are Balder who rules after Ragnarok, Thor > who was the chief god before Odin (Before in our time-frame, people believed > he was the chief god before they believed Odin was. Once they started to regard > Odin as head man, he always had been.) and Tyr who also had been. Tyr, of > course is the same person as Tiwaz, so Tiwaz is also possible. They really > shouldn't coexist though. Of all of these, I agree that Balder is the most > likely. > Well, some of the Norse sources speak of Vidar as surviving Ragnarok... -- --rick heli (... ucbvax!ucdavis!groucho!ccrrick)