Announcements and Reminders Wednesday, May 8, 2019:
If your grade is lacking, please complete your Yggdrasil and composition book work and hand it in to be graded. See the rubric for Yggdrasil for the parts needed and the required qualities.
Practice for the test on Norse mythology with these Quizlets:
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pantheon--https://quizlet.com/_44mqdx
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yggdrasil--https://quizlet.com/_44n8r1
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Targets for Today:
I understand Ragnarok, the Norse Pantheon, and many other facts and stories from Norse mythology.
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Today’s Agenda Wednesday, May 8, 2019:
1. Prepare your sketch of your Ragnarok scene. We will put these together on Friday. 2. Review for our test on Norse Mythology Review paper -- help each other fill in the answers. Kahoots! Ginnungagap. |
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In the morning at first light, Thor and his companions stood up and dressed and prepared to leave. Utgards Loke than came in and had a table set for them and they were treated to both food and drinks.
When they had finished eating they wanted to leave, Utgards Loke accompanied them as they left the fortress Utgard. Before they left Utgards Loke asked Thor, how he thought the trip had been and whether Thor had ever met some who were more powerful.
Thor replied; I have been seriously dishonored in this encounter, and now I know that you will that I am a person of little strength.
Utgards Loke answered; Well, now that you are out of the fortress, I will tell you the truth, because as long as I am alive you will not be allowed to enter again. And I can assure you that you, would never have been allowed to enter in the first place if I had known in advance that you had so much strength in you because you nearly brought disaster upon us.
I have tricked you with my magic, just as I did the first time I met you in the forest. I am the one you met there called Skrymir, and when you tried to untie the food bag, you were unable to find where to undo it. Because I had fastened it with iron wire.
When you struck me three times with your hammer Mjollnir, the first was blow you did was the least, yet it was so powerful that it would have killed me, had it found its mark.
But if you look over to those three flat-topped mountains they do not have three square-shaped valleys below, with one deeper than the others, these are the marks of your hammer. I moved them with magic and placed them in front of your blows, but you did not see me doing it.
And I did the same thing last night, I used my magic to trick you and your companions. When Loke had his eating contest against Logi it was not a normal man, it was a fire in the shape of a man, that is why it consumed both the bones and the wood.
When Thjalfi ran against the one called Hugi, that was my mind, and Thjalfi could not be expected to compete with the speed of my thoughts.
And Thor, when you drank from the horn and thought that you were very slow in draining it, it was no less than a miracle, and I would never have believed it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes. The other end of the horn which you could not lift up from the floor was out in the ocean. When you come to the ocean, you will see how much your drinking lowered it.
Utgards Loke continued to speak; And when you lifted up one of the cat’s paws from the floor, it was not just a cat, it was the Midgard serpent. But you raised him so high that he almost reached the sky.
It was also a real wonder that you remained on your feet for so long during the wrestling. And you only feel to one of your knees, as you struggled with Elli. Elli means old age, and no one overcomes old age.
But before you go, Thor, it would be best for both of us, if you never come back here again to meet me. Next time I will defend my stronghold with similar magic.
When Utgards Loke was done speaking Thor, gripped his hammer and raised it into the air. But, when he was ready to strike, Utgards Loke was nowhere to be seen. The stronghold had also disappeared and there was just one big beautiful plain.
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