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๐Ÿ“˜ ใ€Ž์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹ ํ™”ใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  - Reading โ€œAn Introduction to Norse Mythologyโ€

๐Ÿ“˜ ใ€Ž์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹ ํ™”ใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  - Reading โ€œAn Introduction to Norse Mythologyโ€

๐Ÿ’น (ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด) ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ

ใ€Ž์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹ ํ™”ใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ 

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๐Ÿ“– ์ฑ… ์ œ๋ชฉ: ใ€Ž์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹ ํ™”ใ€
โœ๏ธ ์ž‘๊ฐ€: ์ด๊ฒฝ๋•
๐ŸŽฏ ์ถ”์ฒœ ๋Œ€์ƒ: ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„, ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๊ณ  ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์ฃผ๊ณ ์‹ถ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ!?
๐ŸŒŸ ํ•œ์ค„ ๊ฐ์ƒ: ์ •์ œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋กœ๋งˆ์‹ ํ™”๋А๋‚Œ!?


๐Ÿ”ค ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„๋“ค, ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋งŽ๋‹ค!?

์ด ์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅธ ์˜ˆ์ „์˜ ์ถ”์–ต!!

  • ์•„์Šค๊ฐ€๋ฅด๋“œ: ํ•œ๋•Œ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋„ฅ์Šจ ๊ฒŒ์ž„ !!
  • ๋ผ๊ทธ๋‚˜๋กœํฌ: ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ์ด๋ฆ„!
  • ์˜ค๋”˜, ํ† ๋ฅด, ๋กœํ‚ค, ํ—ค์ž„๋‹ฌ: ๋งˆ๋ธ” ์˜ํ™”์—์„œ ๋ดค๋˜ ๊ทธ ์‹ ๋“ค!
  • ๋ฐœํ‚ค๋ฆฌ: ์Šคํƒ€ํฌ๋ž˜ํ”„ํŠธ ํ…Œ๋ž€์˜ ๊ณต์ค‘ ์œ ๋‹›!
  • ๋ฐ˜์ง€์˜ ์ œ์™•: ์–ด๋ฆด ๋•Œ ๋ดค๋˜ ํŒํƒ€์ง€ ์˜ํ™”โ€ฆ

์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹ ํ™”์˜ ์ž”์žฌ๋“ค ์†์— ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ์‹ ํ™” ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์˜์™ธ๋กœ ๋“œ๋ฌผ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ›๏ธ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์‹ ํ™”๋Š” ์—ญ์‹œ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋กœ๋งˆ ์‹ ํ™”!

์†”์งํžˆ ๋งํ•ด, โ€˜์‹ ํ™”โ€™ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฑด?

์ œ์šฐ์Šค์™€ ์˜ฌ๋ฆผํ‘ธ์Šค 12์‹ , ํ—ค๋ผ, ํฌ์„ธ์ด๋ˆ, ์•„ํ”„๋กœ๋””ํ…Œ, ํ—ค๋ฅด๋ฉ”์Šคโ€ฆ

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋กœ๋งˆ ์‹ ํ™”๋Š” ์›Œ๋‚™์— ์ •์ œ๋˜๊ณ , ์ •ํ˜•ํ™”๋œ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ์„œ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๊ณ ,
๋ฌธํ•™ยท์˜ˆ์ˆ ยท์ฒ ํ•™๊ณผ๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜๋‹ค.


๐ŸงŠ ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹ ํ™”๋Š”โ€ฆ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ณ  ๋‚ ๊ฒƒ์˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ?

ใ€Ž์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹ ํ™”ใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  ๋А๋‚€ ์ ์€:

๊ฐ ์ธ๋ฌผ์˜ ๊ฐœ์„ฑ์€ ๋ถ„๋ช… ์กด์žฌํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ,
์ „์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ํ๋ฆ„์ด ์ •๋ˆ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋“ฏํ•œ ์›์‹œ์„ฑ์ด ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค.

  • ์—ฐ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์  ํ๋ฆ„๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฐ๋ฐœ์ ์ธ ์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ๋“ค
  • ์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์ด ์ •ํ˜•ํ™”๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ•จ
  • ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ํƒ„์ƒ โ†’ ์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ๋ชฐ๋ฝ(๋ผ๊ทธ๋‚˜๋กœํฌ) ํ๋ฆ„์€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „์ฒด ์„œ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋А์Šจํ•จ

ํ•œํŽธ์œผ๋ก , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋กœ๋งˆ ์‹ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋Š” ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌ๋˜๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์„ธ๋Œ€์˜ ์žฌํŽธ์ง‘๊ณผ ๋ฏธํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณค๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ๋„ ์ƒˆ์‚ผ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ“˜ ์ฑ…์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ฝ์—ˆ๋‚˜?

์†”์งํžˆ ๋งํ•ด์„œ, ๋ฌด๊ฒ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ์ข‹์•˜๋‹ค.
์‹ ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„, ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ๋“ค์–ด๋ดค๋Š”๋ฐ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์ด ๊ถ๊ธˆํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„
โ€œ์•„~ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋งˆ๋ธ”์—์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜~โ€ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ฝ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.


โœ… ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์ƒ๊ฐ

ใ€Ž์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹ ํ™”ใ€๋Š” ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ
์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„๋“ค์˜ ๋‚ฏ์„  ์ง„์งœ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

์ •๋ˆ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ์•ˆ์—์„œ๋„ ์ž์—ฐ๊ณผ ์ „์Ÿ, ์ธ๊ฐ„, ์ฃฝ์Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์›์ดˆ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ด ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ ,
โ€œ์™œ ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹ ํ™”๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋กœ๋งˆ ์‹ ํ™”๋งŒํผ ๋„๋ฆฌ ํผ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„๊นŒ?โ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํžŒํŠธ๋„ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“š ์‹ ํ™”์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด?
โœ”๏ธ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ •์ œ๋œ ๋กœ๋งˆ์‹ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ฒน๋‹ค๋ฉด?
โ†’ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์ฏค ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ณ  ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹ ํ™”๋„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ณด์‹œ๊ธธ!


๐Ÿ’น (English) Familiar Names, Yet Unfamiliar Stories

Reading โ€œAn Introduction to Norse Mythologyโ€

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๐Ÿ“– Book Title: An Introduction to Norse Mythology
โœ๏ธ Author: Lee Kyung-deok
๐ŸŽฏ Recommended for: Anyone whoโ€™s heard the names but wants to understand the stories behind them!
๐ŸŒŸ One-Line Impression: Feels like a raw, unpolished version of Greco-Roman myths!?


๐Ÿ”ค More Familiar Names Than You Think!?

While reading this book, a lot of old memories came back!

  • Asgard: A game I used to love from Nexon!
  • Ragnarok: The title of a game my friend used to play non-stop.
  • Odin, Thor, Loki, Heimdall: The gods we met through Marvel movies!
  • Valkyrie: The air unit from StarCraftโ€™s Terran faction!
  • The Lord of the Rings: The fantasy film I watched when I was a kidโ€ฆ

Come to think of it, we might be living surrounded by fragments of Norse mythology.
Yet, very few people really know the actual stories behind those names.


๐Ÿ›๏ธ The Mythology We Know: Greco-Roman!

Letโ€™s be honest โ€” when someone says โ€œmythology,โ€ what comes to mind first?

Zeus and the 12 Olympians, Hera, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Hermesโ€ฆ

Greco-Roman mythology is familiar because its characters are polished and structured,
and itโ€™s closely tied to literature, art, and philosophy.


๐ŸงŠ Norse Mythologyโ€ฆ Wild and Raw?

What I felt while reading An Introduction to Norse Mythology was:

Each character certainly has their own personality,
but overall, the storytelling feels raw and unrefined โ€” in a primal way.

  • Less of a chronological flow, more of scattered episodes
  • The gods arenโ€™t neatly defined โ€” they can be ambiguous or unstable
  • While there is a general arc (from the creation of the world to Ragnarok),
    the overall narrative feels loose and fragmented

At the same time, I realized:
Maybe Greco-Roman myths became what they are now through centuries of editing, polishing, and romanticizing.


๐Ÿ“˜ How Was the Reading Experience?

Honestly, I liked that it wasnโ€™t too heavy.
Even if you know nothing about mythology โ€” or you just vaguely remember the names โ€”
youโ€™ll find yourself thinking:

โ€œAh, so this is the backstory behind the Marvel characters!โ€

Itโ€™s light but insightful, with bite-sized explanations and the authorโ€™s own interpretations.
A pleasant read overall.


โœ… Final Thoughts

An Introduction to Norse Mythology is exactly that โ€”
an encounter with the unfamiliar stories behind familiar names.

Within the rough edges of its tales, I felt the raw instinct of nature, war, humanity, and death.
I even began to understand why Norse mythology never gained the same global popularity as its Greco-Roman cousin.

๐Ÿ“š Curious about mythology?
โœ”๏ธ Tired of the same old polished Greek stories?
โ†’ Give Norse mythology a shot โ€” itโ€™s wild, strange, and beautifully chaotic.


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