He’s created by the Aesir and the Vanir, the two tribes of gods, who get together to become our Norse gods as part of a peace process of the war between them. I would go for Kvasir, who is an incredibly wise god. He’s tricky, he’s weird, but he lives with them in Asgard and is accepted by the gods, but is dangerous.īut I don’t think I would go for them. If you have make a list of your favourite gods it’s very easy to go for the ones that everybody has heard of, to go for Odin who’s wise and crafty, or Thor who’s brave and mighty, or even Loki who is not necessarily a God. They are incredibly human and it's that humanity that makes them fascinating.
They are the gods of a cold place and they are always on guard against characters who are even colder – the frost giants.
But I think what is so marvellous about the Gods is how human they are. And I was actually asked in an interview by a journalist who had read Norse Mythology if we’d hit peak Ragnarök yet, and I had to say we haven’t even reached the foothills of early Ragnarök yet. It all ends in something called Ragnarök, which is the end of the world. One of things about the Norse gods is that everything ends very badly. Anybody who can train cats to pull a chariot has to be badass. And I thought it would be wonderful to tell those stories afresh for a new audience.įreya travels around in a chariot pulled by cats. The stuff that I had already read was essentially a re-telling, a reconfiguration of these stories and poems. And I kept coming back to them as a young adult, as an adult, as a writer, until eventually I started reading the Prose Eddas and the Poetic Eddas. So that is how I first met them and fell in love. Thor seemed very different, Loki seemed much more interesting. I wanted to know more and I got hold of a copy of a book called The Myths of the Norsemen, by Roger Lancelyn Green, and read it and loved it and was fascinated by the differences between the comics characters that Jack Kirby had come up with and the actual mythic version. This was the mighty Thor and he was wonderful.
I came across the Norse Myths as a boy, initially in the glorious four-colour Marvel Comics version. When did you first come across the Norse myths? I first came across the Norse myths in the glorious four-colour Marvel Comics version.
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