Norse Mythology Family Tree

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Special thanks to Professor Jackson Crawford for his input:

CREDITS:
Chart/Script: Matt Baker
Narration/Audio Editing: @JackRackam
Animation: @AlMuqaddimahYT

[UsefulCharts]

9:31 Correction: Loki has a fourth child with a male stallion (Loki being the female mare in that relationship).

[multiplemysteries]

Wow. There's a lot less incest than I expected there to be.

[eavannickolas]

Here’s something interesting. The dwarven gifts on this chart were actually given to the gods by Loki. He was trying to make up for cutting off Sif’s hair. He had two different dwarven parties do it. I believe he said to one of them that if their gifts were better than the others, they could have his head. They did, in fact, end up being better, but he got out of it by telling them, “I said you could have my head, but you shall not touch my neck, ” (paraphrased). It’s actually a very interesting story that I read in a book called ‘Norse Myths.’

[pharosmoirai]

Funny how I learned most of this while playing God of War. Super interesting!

[MrTohawk]

9:30 Loki was the female in that relationship with the horse.

[FluffiestWalrus]

This is super helpful for god of war Ragnarok

[requiemact]

How the hell did Heimdall came from nine mothers!?
That dude must have never won an argument lmao

[Master-ilsk]

12am: I should prob sleep soon
5am: North Mythology Family Tree

[weepingscorpion]

I really like this chart. But for one thing: The runic alphabet you used is the 24 letter Elder Futhark which was used to write a language spoken centuries before the Norsemen (aka Vikings) came along. Rather, the Norsemen used the 16 letter Younger Futhark alphabet. So these two alphabets are very often mixed. But it's a lovely chart nevertheless. Nice job. And yes, everybody definitely follow Dr. Jackson Crawford.

[gustavtoft]

The names of the days of the week. In Danish it makes better sense.
Tuesday: Tirsdag, Tyrsdag
Wednesday: Onsdag, Odinsdag
Thursday: Torsdag, Thorsdag
Friday: Fredag, Frejasdag
(The middle name is in Danish, and the last what they where originally called.)

[Tom-hijn]

The explanation of the realms is greatly appreciated.

[youtubechannel]

Great chart, although I would flip Vanaheim and Jotunheim (and the other two realms respectively), because the line Jotunheim-Midgard-Vanaheim represents the past, present, and the future. Jotunheim is the realm of all knowledge and memory, and Vanaheim is the realm of reality manifested in the future.

[valehaarrhatlo]

Remember that Loke had two more sons called Vale and Nale. They are a part of Loke’s punishment after the death of Balder. The other gods turn one son, Vale into a wolf. Since he no is a wolf he kills his brother Nale. Then when the other goods have had a good laugh and thinks Loke has had a sufficient amount of punishment seeing one of his sons brutal kill and eat the other, the goods then kill Vale. They use his entrails as lashings for Loke to be imprisoned. That whole snake poison story that I assume most of you may know

[timcooney]

Jackson Crawford also presented a course on Norse Mythology for The Great Courses, now Wondrium. And he narrates books on the Eddas and sagas brilliantly.

[UsefulCharts]

Be sure to check out Jackson Crawford's channel:

[onedaysoon]

As an Attack on Titan fan, I didn't notice that it had any Norse Mythology references in it, but now I do. And it's super awesome

[Hjarrand]

Here there is a lot of tings to comment upon. First of all, I am surprised that Snorri Sturluson wasn't mentioned from the beginning. He, after all, gave us the "Classical version" of the norse mythology, with a creation myth, primordials and an endpoint, Ragnarok. According to Snorri, Surt is more of a "primordial" than a Giant - he was there before anything else, having spats with the king of Niflheim before Ymir even was created - the story goes: Ymir was created because of Surt, not the other way around (The thawing of the massive icewalls made by Nifl in Niflheim when confronted by the heat of Surt gave way to a primordial soup, which then created Ymir). The "bookends" in the Snorri version is made by Surt: He was a part of the creation, and he is there to oversee the ultimate Destruction after the fall of Yggdrasil at the end of the world. Secondly: Loki is actually the mother of Sleipnir through shapeshifting. And Ty, according to the ethymology, was the older main god of the pantheon, replaced by Odin over the years. That is why he remains separate. The name "Ty"/Tiwaz, is equivalent of Zeus, not Mars. If any Romano-greek God is equivalent of Odin, it is Mercury. There you are.

[wulaeofthetengu]

I'm fairly certain Óðinn is Heimdallr and Týr's father. Týr is an odd issue because he's said to be Hymir's son, and then said to be Óðinn's at another time and more often. he might have been Hymir's foster son and his wife, Hróðr, and Óðinn's biological son according to some studies as fostering a hero was a popular concept at the time. It also doesn't make much sense to demote Týr to just a Jötunn considering his previous prominence before Óðinn's popularity. There is no other account for Heimdallr's father besides, of course, Óðinn. I'm happy you have Meili on here though, he always gets forgotten. There's nothing out there (besides the Eddas) that actually has all of Óðinn's sons: Týr, Heimdallr, Bragi, Þórr, Meili, Baldr, Höðr, Hermóðr, Víðarr, and Váli (I don't really trust the validity of any of the other named "sons of Óðinn", especially THAT list in the Prose Edda iykyk).

[anthonysunseri]

I made my own Norse Mythology family tree as a project in high school. I have to say, yours looks a lot more professional and structured.

[PerTrygveMyhrer]

Loki is not the father to odin's horse, but the mother after he shapechanged into a mare to lure a stallion away.