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[darchildre]

Things I enjoy:

The Better Myths blog. Because it is funny and who doesn't like comically retold myths. Also, dude tells stories pretty much the same way I tell stories, except with slightly more profanity. Also, he has yet to tell the fairytale with the woman made of cake, which is one of the two stories that apparently I always tell when asked to tell a story.

However! He has told the other one. Which is the Thor-in-a-dress story or, if we want to be fancy, the Þrymskviða. It is funny, so I am sharing it with you. (Also, it has a marvelously Lokean ending: "so the moral of the story is if at first you don't succeed, try crossdressing." I think we can all agree with that.)

Comments

[finch]

I just recently read a kids' book about that Thor story.

One of my favorite things about Norse religion is that it has so much gender fuckery in it for something that has so very, very many MANLY MANLY MEN practicing it now.

[silveradept]

Oh, the Thor-crossdresser story is an excellent one. I should really remember to keep that one in my back pocket, next to my Anansi stories, for those times when I rally want to make the children and the parents go down the rabbit hole.