So I've gotten to Skáldskaparmál in the Prose Edda, and I understand that quite a bit of it is a 'Poetic Thesaurus' (according to Wikipedia), but I'm having problems comprehending it. To me, these giant lists of skalds listing gods and substitutions for their names kinda makes me feel like I'm reading a brick wall. Is there some sort of context that I might not be understanding.

Greetings, philologists! With the Legendary Lucina remix, I thought now might be a good time to take on the handful of unique weapons that Heroes has introduced to existing characters. This is not about weapons belonging to Heroes OCs, but instead like how Camilla in Fates never had a unique weapon, so Heroes made up Sanngriðr for her brave alt. With that in mind, let's take a look at some new weapons for old characters!

Thögn: That's Using Your Noggin

To start, there is Legendary Lucina's bow, Þögn (Thögn). According to Wikipedia, Þögn is the name of a Valkyrie and means "silence." Wikipedia further asserts that this name is attested to in the Nafnaþulur.

I'll be perfectly honest with you, philologists: I'm not sure exactly whence this claim is sourced. The problem with this being on Wikipedia is that an overwhelming number of different sites recite exactly what is on Wikipedia, recycling this claim without any independent verification. Normally, this wouldn't bother me so much, but I can't find any source anywhere to support the assertion that Þögn means "silence," or that Þögn actually exists at all. The Nafnaþulur is a long list of names at the end of the Skáldskaparmál, and not all editions of the Skáldskaparmál include the Nafnaþulur. The only edition of the Nafnaþulur I could find was on this site, and at paragraph 26, you can see the run-down of Valkyrie names. See what's missing? Yeah, no sign of the name Þögn anywhere!

But, for the sake of argument, let us assume Þögn really does mean "silence." If so, what is the significance? Beats me! Heroes gives us virtually no clues for context. In her Legendary Hero battle, Legendary Lucina states, "This bow, known as Thögn, came from another world. It has long been extolled in legends... And now, I shall demonstrate its power to you." Well, what is this other world? How did she get this bow? How did she even know about it? These are total mysteries. The only possible guess that makes sense to me is that Legendary Lucina is from the time after Grima is defeated; if Legendary Lucina comes from that point in time, it might mean that she has helped silence Grima. In support of this theory, I note that one of Legendary Lucina's comments is,

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Happy 2022, you happy philologists! I don't think any of us were expecting to start off the new year with Ascended Joshua, but here we are, so let's talk about the signature weapon of Jehanna's happy-go-lucky prince, Audhulma!

Audhulma

In The Sacred Stones, Audhulma and Excalibur constitute the Sacred Twins of Jehanna. Queen Ismaire gives the sword Audhulma to her son, Joshua, as a symbol of entrusting the mantle of leadership to him. Notably, while Excalibur is referred to as the Wind Blade* (continuing Fire Emblem's tradition of associating Excalibur with wind), Audhulma is referred to as the Ice Blade.

* ^(Except in Japan, where it is called Fujin, in reference to the Japanese god of winds. Fujin's brother is the god of thunder, Raijin.)

Don't Have a Cow, Man!

First things first: it's Auðumbla (to my knowledge, pronounced "yooth-yoombla").

Second: scholars generally believe Auðumbla means "hornless, milk-rich cow." There are disagreements on this, of course, but this interpretation has been propounded as the likeliest one, given related Germanic words.

I am sure you philologists must realize that the spelling Auðumbla necessarily suggests we are going back to the well of Norse mythology and thus our best friend, Snorri Sturluson. Appearing in Sturluson's Gylfaginning, Auðumbla is a primeval cow. At the beginning of the creation of the universe, there was Ginnungagap. King Gangleri speaks to the wise Hárr about this creation myth in Gylfaginning, with Hárr explaining how frigid rivers in Ginnungagap froze over and congealed with rime in Niflheim, but the heat of Muspellheim breathed life into the rime and created the first frost giant: Ymir.

>Then said Gangleri: "Where dwelt Ymir, or wherein did he find sustenance?" Hárr answered: "Straightaway after the rime dripped, there sprang from it the cow called Auðumbla; four streams of milk ran from her udders, and she nourished Ymir."
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>Then asked Gangleri: "Wherewithal was the cow nourished?" And Hárr made answer: "She licked the ice-blocks, which were salty; and the first day that she licked the blocks, there came forth from the blocks in the evening a man's hair; the seco

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

I hope you merry philologists have been enjoying your holidays. As my gift to you, have an etymological study on Mjölnir to celebrate the arrival of Resplendent Ishtar!

Mjölnir

Mjölnir appears as a weapon in the Jugdral Saga. When the Miracle of Darna occurs, Thrud the Crusader receives the tome Mjölnir. Since then, the tome has passed to his descendants, who are House Friege of Grannvale. Through her father, Duke Bloom, Ishtar inherits the major Thrud blood needed to wield Mjölnir.

In Genealogy of the Holy War, Mjölnir grants its wielder an extra 20 Skill and 10 Speed. Upon its reappearance in Awakening, it only grants an additional 5 Skill. By the time it appears in Fates, it quadruples critical damage, like a slaying weapon. In Heroes, this slaying effect is imitated by accelerating Ishtar's special trigger and also giving her an additional 6 Speed if she initiates combat.

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If you have seen any Marvel movie in the past decade, you already know that Mjölnir is the famous war hammer of the Norse thunder god, Thor. Indeed, the weapon was originally named "Tor Hammer" in Japanese and was translated as such in Fire Emblem Treasure; it was also called "Thor Hammer" in Fire Emblem Museum. It did not officially get renamed Mjölnir until Awakening.

Unsurprisingly, being the weapon of one of the most famous Aesir means that there is a lot of lore surrounding Mjölnir. The hammer's creation is described in the Skáldskaparmál. Loki, eternal trickster, pranks the goddess Sif by cutting off all her hair. Unfortunately for him, Sif happens to be Thor's wife, and Thor is none too happy when he finds out about this. Thor gets his hands on Loki and threatens to snap his bones like twigs if he does not fix this. Loki heads to Svartálfaheimr, home of the dark elves, and asks some of them to craft new hair for Sif. These dark elves, the Sons of Ivaldi, fashion not only new hair for Sif but also Odin's spear Gungnir and Freyr's ship Skíðblaðnir.

Loki, being Loki, cannot stop getting into trouble and bets his own head against the dwarf Brokkr that Brokkr's brother Eitri cannot make anything better than what the Sons of Ivaldi have made. Brokkr takes the bet and teams up with Eitri (portrayed in Heroes as a wicked child but in the Marvel movies by the far more charming Peter Dinklage). Loki tries to cheat by shapeshifting into a gadfly and biting Brokkr several times. First, he bites Brokkr's arm while the dwarves forge Gullin

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

When most people hear the name “Thor” (Þórr in Old Norse), it conjures up images of a powerful, hammer-wielding master of lightning and thunder. However, it may be surprising to learn that a direct connection between Thor and thunder does not appear anywhere in the Poetic Edda, our foremost source for Norse mythology. Throughout its pages Thor is never referred to as a thunder god, never explicitly causes a crash of thunder or a flash of lightning, and is called by no heiti that is indisputably thunder-related.

The Poetic Edda contains only a couple of hints that Thor might have anything to do with thunder. For instance, he is often referred to by the name Hlórriði which is hard to decipher but could plausibly be connected to thunder. Also, the mountains are said to tremble (fjöll öll skjalfa) in Lokasenna 55, when Thor arrives to confront and silence the troublesome Loki. We might assume that they shake at the sound of thunder, although thunder itself isn’t actually mentioned.

In the Prose Edda, the second of our two foremost sources for pagan Norse tales, this association is almost non-existent as well. Although Thor is a frequently recurring character in the author Snorri Sturluson’s narratives, his book contains only one line in a section called Skáldskaparmál that mentions thunder in any kind of association with Thor. At the beginning of Thor’s epic duel with the giant Hrungnir Snorri states:

> Því næst sá hann eldingar ok heyrði þrumur stórar. Sá hann þá Þór í ásmóði. Fór hann ákafliga ok reiddi hamarinn ok kastaði um langa leið at Hrungni.

And in English (transl. by me):

> Thereupon he (Hrungnir) saw lightning and heard great thunder. He then saw Thor in god-like wrath. He (Thor) went forth furiously, and swung the hammer, and cast it from a long distance at Hrungnir.

But how do we know this thunderstorm has anything at all to do with Thor and isn’t just Snorri’s description of epic battle scenery? For that matter, with so little in the way of association between Thor and thunder in the Eddas, where exactly does the idea of Thor as a thunder god even come from?

Let’s start with etymology.

The name Þórr is derived from the reconstructed word *þunraz in an older language called [Prot

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.

I won't be doing that today!

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

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You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.

And then shook his arm really fast.

(True story, please groan with me.)

It’s pronounced “Noel.”