The Norse Gods' Eagle Enemy: Þjazi (Thjazi / Thjassi)

What we can say from the Eddas about Þjazi (Thjazi / Thjassi), an enemy of the gods who often appears as an eagle.

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[marsh]

no “Hi, I’m Old Norse Specialist Dr. Jackson Crawford” 😢

[RideorDinosaur]

Even if I had magic apples, I would be excited to check out some new apples. It would work on me.

[Ostenjager]

I like the idea that Idhunn is something like a botanist. She could be naturally curious when someone states they found something of interest in the forest she ought to see, which would make it plausible to lure her outside.

[thomaswillard]

14:08 That translation may say "beautiful", but others say "pretty" or "clean". Because Njorðr is always standing in water

[casthedemon]

I find it interesting that the most beautiful of the gods, the one who is loved by everything, still is not unblemished.

[nickb-whistler]

Thanks for your amazing videos! Your books are wonderful!

[BrandonJulianWindsor]

"Hey Idunn you know those Golden Apples of yours that grant Gods immortal? Well I found some outside Asgard that'll make you.... Immortaler..." Loki The Trickster

[weepingscorpion]

I'm no speaker of any of the Sami languages but the pronounciation of čáhci should be quite straight forward. I am probably going to do a lot of presuppositions here so if I do make some mistakes I apologies in advance. <h> here shows preaspiration and č would be an aspirated ch (church) sound. I am never sure how <á> is pronounced but I think it is a front /a/ (like in Icelandic) while /a/ is the back variant (like Swedish or Finnish <a>). So, in IPA čáhci is /ˈt͡ʃʰaʰt͡si/. Interestingly, in Faroese Þjazi becomes Tjassi with the standard pronunciation of /ˈtʲʰas:ɪ/ although in practise about 90+% of Faroese people (including yours truly) merge tj and kj, so you're more like to hear /ˈt͡ʃʰas:ɪ/. Now, some may hypercorrect Tjassi to Tjatsi in which case we now get /ˈt͡ʃʰaʰtsɪ/ which is remarkably similar to (what I believe) the Northern Sami word is pronounced.

[beepboop]

back when i was a grad student in a philosophy program, i was def beer-powered

[janetchennault]

It is possible to hypothesize that the Aesir, Vanir, Jotun, Dwarves, Elves, etc all represent different tribes of humans with whom the proto-Norse interacted and intermarried. If that is the case, then the names of these different tribes might have their roots in (a) earlier PIE peoples, (b) non-PIE peoples. eg A Sami or other non-PIE name might be the norm rather than the exception.

Is there any indication in the naming of the non-Aesir, especially the stranger, less human sounding ones (shapeshifting, rarely mentioned), that would support/refute that theory?

[sjbuttonsb]

Loki seems quite put upon in this one.

[thehikingviking]

@freyiaTV Greetings 🙋🏼‍♂️ You may find this interesting. How do you pronounce the word water in Sami? Please see Dr Crawford's introduction 🙂 Tusen Takk 🙏 🦌

[Random]

Still no news on the prose Edda being translated, right? :X

[OutsiderOverland]

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