The Vikings Revealed In Odin's Shield-Wall
Odin is giving the Vikings survival advice and from the stories we have read we know how the Vikings have not taken Odin’s guidance seriously which might be thought to be the reason that has caused them to vanish.
Odin is warning the Viking about the Stamford bridge battle and that they should always be ready to go into a battle. After their victory at Fulford gate King Harald Sigurdason rushed to go to Stamford Bridge to collect the ransom and tributes from the English and was not wary where he was entering which ended the Viking age. Odin himself doesn’t know of when Ragnarolf will happen. He gathers the best warriors to join him in Ragnarolf so he will be ready to fight the giants and the wolf, who are both the foundation of this world …show more content…
The Vikings are safe when they stand as a group tightly next to each other so that their shields overlap each other and no enemy can enter their cluster and no weapon can hurt them. However, if the “Shield-wall” is broken they can be injured much easier since they can be attacked from any side.
Odin advises the Vikings not to trust women, because he is aware of the Norns and the Valkyries power in one’s fate. Also, he knows that goddesses have practiced the “black magic” and according to Ynglinga Saga “… this magic, when it is practiced, is accompanied by such great perversion [ergi] that it was not considered without shame for a man to perform it ….” . Thus he is trying to warn the Vikings from women’s supernatural powers and which may cause them the worst insult.
In many accounts that we have read women have used their power to goad their husbands, sons or lover, and none of them ended well, indicating women’s being individualist and are determined to gain what they want regardless of how the outcome can be. Moreover, Tacitusis’ text about “woman is the ruling sex” correlates Odin’s advice warning men about women’s manipulative and ruling
Odin is warning the Viking about the Stamford bridge battle and that they should always be ready to go into a battle. After their victory at Fulford gate King Harald Sigurdason rushed to go to Stamford Bridge to collect the ransom and tributes from the English and was not wary where he was entering which ended the Viking age. Odin himself doesn’t know of when Ragnarolf will happen. He gathers the best warriors to join him in Ragnarolf so he will be ready to fight the giants and the wolf, who are both the foundation of this world …show more content…
The Vikings are safe when they stand as a group tightly next to each other so that their shields overlap each other and no enemy can enter their cluster and no weapon can hurt them. However, if the “Shield-wall” is broken they can be injured much easier since they can be attacked from any side.
Odin advises the Vikings not to trust women, because he is aware of the Norns and the Valkyries power in one’s fate. Also, he knows that goddesses have practiced the “black magic” and according to Ynglinga Saga “… this magic, when it is practiced, is accompanied by such great perversion [ergi] that it was not considered without shame for a man to perform it ….” . Thus he is trying to warn the Vikings from women’s supernatural powers and which may cause them the worst insult.
In many accounts that we have read women have used their power to goad their husbands, sons or lover, and none of them ended well, indicating women’s being individualist and are determined to gain what they want regardless of how the outcome can be. Moreover, Tacitusis’ text about “woman is the ruling sex” correlates Odin’s advice warning men about women’s manipulative and ruling