“He’s got the bodies of all the dead sticky taped to his wings”

"How do we convince our people to follow basic hygiene?" "Long finger nails kills the gods."

I know it's not a dnd video, but Rusty the rooster is now the linchpin to my dnd campaign

I emailed my grandmother with your video about the Samson and Delilah, because she likes Biblical mythology. She's been asking me if I'm still talking to "that nice Irish girl" for like a year now. I finally asked her what she was talking about recently, as I've never been friends with anybody who was so Irish as to be identified that way. It turns out she didn't really understand how KZfaq worked. So anyway, my grandma thinks you're nice.

Thor trying to lift Jörmungandr thinking it's a cat is probably peak Nordic Mythology.

Ominous Voice: "Behold! Skoll, Hati Hróðvitnisson, Gullinkambi, Fialar, and... Rusty." Rusty: "Just happy to be here, guys! Flapping fantastic!"

Come for the D&D, stay for the dope-ass mythology. Sometimes even dope ass-mythology. Lookin' at you, Zeus.

Big "gollied" up flaming sword! I want it!

I've not heard the story of Ragnarok told so comically, and at the same time, I rarely hear it told accurately. This managed both! The Vikings of Valhalla are applauding you.

Norse Mythology: The earth will be consumed by flame and flood Me, afraid of climate change and nuclear war: :( Norse Mythology: But it will be the start of a new cycle and fish will be there for some reason Me: :)

So Dael said “Freyr” and “Freya” about a dozen times each and I never heard a difference.

When my African Grey Parrot died a few years back, I wrote on her little Tombstone "Here Lies Elmo, the only 8oz animal I've ever known to make it to Valhalla." She was a vicious little dinosaur spawn. I choose to believe that she claws out surtur's eyes after he kills Freyr, just because I respected that vicious little bird.

I will never tire of waiting for that moment at the end when Dael goes back into frame just to add some nonsense to the video

Jörmungandr fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, “Never get involved in shenanigans with Loki” - but only SLIGHTLY less well-known is this: “Never go in against Thor when DEATH is on the line”!

The Norse Mythology Nail Clipping Boat was in Rick Riordan’s Magnus Chase books and its haunted me for a while now, I’m kinda glad the nail clipping detail is from the source material and not just some Riordan embellishment

Odin totally pulled a Futurama with the whole "keep the head on tap" thing

Fun fact: Slavic mythology has a big doggo called Simargl the Doomsday Hound. He's chained to Polaris, guarded by the morning and evening stars, and if he escapes he'll eat the sun, the moon, and then the universe Some of the stuff mentioned here reminded me of that

Hulk ripping Fenrir in twain would have been utterly fantastic...but yeah, Disney MCU probably not a big fan of that visual. I did not remember that ending with Nidhogg! Now I have to go reread stuff. Excellent video!

I mean, we all know you can only get ol' Nidhögr with the fourth stage of civilisation, but then the fighting gets so fierce and you forget to summon him over micro-managing your axe-throwers, so you plop him down right at the end when you've located your opponents last hidden town-center, Wrushhh!

So... that ending with the nidhögg... isn't that just one of the oldest example of a cliffhanger? "Ragnarök II: A New Beginning - on the tongues of skalds near you this winter!"

I know this story well, but every time I've heard it told, it's the most epic apocalypse story I've ever heard.

I love the thought of the end of a mythology. I love the thought of all of the powers on a universe clashing on the same day. The gods know that they won’t win but they still die fighting. If all of these immense beings battled against the singular greatest threat, they could all survive. Instead, they are unable to set aside their thousand year grudges and seemingly all life is exterminated. In my world, I have a similar piece in my d&d world’s mythology. Enrenosh means “the universes last breath” in primordial. This is the end of the universe prophesied by the god of true foresight shortly after she was killed by the gods under the rule of the monarch of silence. After death, she whispered in the minds of all of the gods the words, “On the day the universe breaths its last, Dendar the night serpent will swallow the sun.” Dendar coalesced from the fever dreams of the newly born humanoid races. Dendar rests with her body coiled around the universe. In her dreams, she whispers to her followers. It is inevitable that once she has consumed enough fear, she will awake and swallow the sun. I love your mythology videos! Thank you so much for the advice on dm anxiety. I’ve learned to be easier on myself. In the past few games I’ve been experimenting and being very open with my players. Your system for overworld travel has worked great for me! I have been pinpointing my mistakes and thinking about how I can learn from them. Sorry for the ramble but you’ve helped me so much!

I stick around not for the D&D, but because I could listen to you talk to us about anything 🤩

I've been listening to myth videos all day, but haven't been liking/commenting... And that's wrong, these videos deserve all the likes and comments Dael, because you are a good egg.

w00t! A Dael video! Monday is gonna be good. ...Just over twelve minutes later... I knew Monday was gonna be good.

I have the urge to replay the age of mythology campaign again.

"Everybody's dead, Dave..." I choked on hot coffee from that juxtaposition of images! Then I looked again, and you had to cut/edit right there, too. Well, at least you weren't damn-fool enough to burn your lungs from incautiousness. I will try to remember to stay better on guard in the future. Oh, how we are most vulnerable where sympathy reigns. I do like you, genuinely, and respect your talents. Betimes, however, doth fair visage lead one to forget the perils. By such threads are woven epic tales, and so fair warning as well, and fair is as fair does. I am only one of many who have fared well from following your stories, and so stand prepared to pay the price of forgetting due diligence. Besides, I can always make more coffee. There's only one you. Thank you for being you!

Can't confirm 100%, but Naglfar sounds like it literally means "Nail (as in fingernail) Ferry" , so it makes sense by the name. I may be wrong, but from the similarity to norwegian, it feels accurate.

The noise I made of excitement from the notification of this video even surprised me. Thanks Dael. This made my day.

That was so METAL! And a dragon with dead people for wings! Super awesome story! Keep it up!

This!! Was the first video I saw from you back in 2013/2014 and !!! I'm so, so happy to see this updated version!!!

I can listen to her talk for eternity

I have a Ragnarök homebrew campaign based on the poetic and prose edda and it's a lot of fun getting to run it

So many videos suddenly! I must be in heaven to be graced with this much Dael ❤️❤️

If you have problems with Freyr and Freyja I'd suggest just using the "Frey" form instead. The -r is just a gramatical thing to indicate it's in the nominative case and was dropped in Scandinavian languages that don't retain the old Norse case system anyways.

There is a fun bit as religions love to retconn in which Tyr or Tiw/Zio is the head god supposed to die by Fenris his friend but when Odin replaces him as head god he replaces Tyr's death by Fenrir so Garm gets added so Tyr gets to still die by a dog even though it really doesn't make sense.

It's sad the only sources we really have are post-christian. Would be interesting to see that story in it's earlier form. ... Also, my grandma is dead so if anyone know how to e-mail her this to Valhalla, that would be nice.

I came here for the mythology lesson, I stayed for... well, if I'm honest I stayed for the mythology lesson too but I appreciated the Red Dwarf reference. Would'a stayed anyway but... I liked it. That's all I'm trying to say.

Ragnarok is just every end of series episode of doctor who where like a bunch of the bad aliens all turn up to turn the doctor into a corpse

New video days are fun days, but when they include Daelistrations, it's especially great.

I always wondered about the fingernail boat. Thanks for explaining.

I always find it interesting that this can be realistically explained away with some sciencey stuff. like massive volcano eruption causes the eternal winter, coinciding with a meteor shower (stars falling). the cloudcover causes the sun and moon to 'die'. something soemthing something the dead rise on a fingernail ship!

Though I've heard and read this story a few times before, this was an entertaining retelling I'm glad I experienced.

"I don't only do D&D videos." Lucky for you I'm playing an Uthgardt Barbarian with only what the Forgotten Realms wiki can tell me, so I'll take all the Norse refresher I can get.

Hey lady been following your videos for years, wanted to say I love the videos and to keep up the hard work!

Rusty? Dael i think you mean *The Nameless one* He who's damned crows signal the the end times the last of days.

Heimdal's horn is called Gjallarhorn. It is the horn that will wake the gods for Ragnarok, but he is fated to blow it too late

Thank you for the video! It’s a great, short, summary for what I need ro remember for my d&d campaign “Road to ragnarøk” ^^

Vidar is able to step on Fenrir's lower jaw because he is wearing a magic shoe made from all the scraps left by shoemakers. The shoe is so thick that even Fenrir's teeth cannot bite through it.

If i remember the younger Edda right the whole Moon Sun thing is even .... more epic. Managarm, the third "brother" of the Wolves is basically eating the corpses of the dead. When Hati corners the Moon Managarm, who became the strongest due to his feeding will eat the moon and the blood spitting around will darken the sun. "In his defense, he thought it was a Cat" .... ahh yes in the same Story he tries to drink a Met? Beer? .... Some alcohol. And creates the tides. And his Vasal tries to outrun a thought. So many weird things in Norse Mythology. The Boat that can fold itself together to fit in a pocket. Loki being the Mother to an Horse. Thor being unable to cross the Rainbow Bridge. And ofc Freyas Place for the Dead that survives Ragnarök if i remmember right. Half of the Dead going to Odin are going to her if i remember right.Many Many years ago that i read the Edda.

Ha! legit got a Lif Tattoo today in rune of course.. like first Tattoo and had so many friends asking about it and have had to explain the story maybe 4 times today! :p

You gave an excellent and entertaining summary.

Yes!!! missed this so much and i thought i knew the story of Ragnrök..... first time hearing about the nail-ship.... good thing i bite my nails lol "what's holding this ship together?" "oh we just nailed it"

This video got me unexpectedly hyped for the next God of War. Probably not the intention...

I was just out for a walk then Thor said “Hold my ale..”

This is one of my favourite videos you've ever done. Also, I think Ragnarök is my favourite doomsday prophecy, because it's epic and the world cycles back to being chill.

red dwarf quote less than two minutes in, you truly are nerd royalty.

~11:00 Even the bloody Norse were doing sequel cliffhangers > .

Good of you to give Rusty the Hel Rooster a good thing

I didn't think that you could make Ragnarok more metal than your first go around but ya did. Also, i super want that hoodie.

I'm doing a Norse inspired campaign right now! Very useful to have a refresher

Red Dwarf reference. Extra points.

A lot of translations use Frey rather then Freyr specifically for the confusing accent problem

I think I have fallen in love! Love nerdy stuff and a beautiful woman talking about it makes it even better.

Great video! Fun as ever! Thanks for sharing Ragnarok!

Regarding the note in the beginning, I don't remember whether I came here for mythology or D&D because it's been a long while, but I'm 100% here for both

It’s funny that Loki leads the dead, since in an old dnd game that I’m no longer playing, my character was a mortal reincarnation of a female Loki- a form he used to take when he explored Midgard. When Loki maintained a feminine form that was divine, he was known as Hel. We joked it was Loki’s teenage angst phase.

Love both the myth and D&D vids ^^ Thought you might like some more "etomology/meanings" for Ragnarök. I did some quick googling in Swedish and I really like how it's basically just the contraction of two words (yeah, we do that a lot): Ragnar meaning "Godly might" and "rök". Rök these days are synonym with smoke, it's literally that word. But here it's tightly coupled with the phrase "Gå upp i rök" meaning "Go up in smokes" ie. `Be destroyed by fire`. So putting those things together: "The destruction of the Gods might by fire". I really liked that and thought you might like it too ;)

1:44: Holly, are you try'n to tell me every bodies dead?

Norse Myth is my favorite! Thanks for the video, Dael!!!

"I don't only do D&D videos." Geez starting to make me feel old, I've been watching since the geek and sundry days. I learned about Dael from her mythology videos.

Excellent soundtrack choice!

The cycle of life is present in European religions in general, not only in Norse mythology. That is also why we cannot ignore that end bit. Basically everything has begining and the end, the cycle of life, cycle of nature, something must die for something else to be born. Ragnarok it's not just a story about the end of the world, it is a story abaut the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new one. In winter nature is dying for it to be reborn in spring as a new life, as Gimlea - a new Asgard (fun fact, the new year's resolutions also have their origins in European religions. In new life you promise to be better). The European religions described in myths and poems, are just stories about life, human nature, and how to improve oneself. Please remember that when you read about them :)

I’m the opposite of the new DnD subscribers, I’m here from the myth days and don’t really do the DnD stuff, still love y’a tho-💕

so I vote that we ignore that bit - ROFL love that part Dael

Thank you Dael for getting Hel correct in the line drawing.

Funfact : in french, if you pronounce Freyr with only the writing as an indication, you will say "brother" That's all for me

1:05 Götterdämmerung! What a coincidence that I'm watching this video the day after I made it through the DVDs of the Met's 2010 production of Das Rheingold and the 2011 production of Die Walküre *just last night*! 9:02 ... speaking of the Rheingold...

Very nice, as always. "In these the end times" Apparently.😂😂😂

zombie dragon are the best surprise boss battles endings should be used more

The timing of the point to the "i" was immaculate. 9:53

That last bit was the executive mandated segway into the Nidhogg video game.

I've never seen a video with 0 dislikes. God damn, everybody love Dael XD

Thanks for the story :)

Mythology is great lore for D&D campaigns.

Sol may have a daughter to take up her station but Mani doesn't have a son to become the moon. Meaning the new earth will have a new sun but no new moon. I also use Nidhogg as the Devourer of the Wicked Dead in my Post- Ragnarok (well technically post-Fimbelvintr) setting. Dragonborn death cult ;)

"It ended in a tie, and tie where all combatants are dead" ...I think I found that a lot funnier than to be expected

Thumbs up for the red dwarf reference.

"Well, nice to see all the plot threads being tied up neatly, leaving space for..." "Agiantdragonemergingcarryingalltheboidesofthe departed." "Wait, what?"

Excellent tale!

You should do a video on the Branch of gods in norse starting from Odins father and below.

End on a happy note... Then remind us we're in the end times.

Your narration is so cool :)

Ever since MechAssault (2002), Ragnarok has been one of my favorite names.

Nidhogg Showing up like a secret final boss in a video game.

And the nails of naglefar are glued together with the earwax of the dead. Make sure to keep your ears clean, too.

G O L L Y!

Also you could go total overboard and try Frey-Ahhhh. And frey-Aaarrrrr (pirate noise)

Helt fantastiskt. Even though I grew up reading norse mythos and tales. There is still so much to read and so much We could have read. Which nordic tale is your favorite? Mine is the one Where Thor tried to lift the serpent in disguise as you mentioned in the video. I also thought it was just fun in general how much fun those giants had when they Where tricking and Messing with Thor so much.

Oh finally, Mythology!