If you're wondering about pronunciation, use the English word valley and you're most of the way there! Bragi is the learned and wise bard of Valhalla.
He may have been one of Odin's sons — it's unclear from the original source material — but he is considered by many to be a God of Poetry and Music. His name, in fact, comes from the word Bragr meaning poetry.
Bragi possesses a very long beard and has runes carved on his tongue. He is often said to have been married to the Goddess of youth Idunn. Read more : A Viking Timeline. Over the years there were many Viking poets called Bragi, the most famous being Bragi Boddason. This may be attributed to the god Bragi or it's possible that the god Bragi is an immortalisation of one of the poets. The fruit she dispenses are generally depicted as golden apples, though this is unlikely as apples didn't exist in Scandinavia at the time!
The word epli, now meaning apples, was a general word for fruit and nuts. Either way, whatever the fruit may have been it certainly managed to keep the gods going for millions of years! Njord lives in a house on the seashore in Asgard called Noatun. Though he was briefly married to the giantess Skadi, Njord's only children, Freyr and Freyja, were born to his sister Nerthus.
Remember the popularity of Frigg within Scandinavia? The same is true of our friend Njord! Among others, he lends his name to a Copenhagen-based advertising agency and even a male grooming brand! They're gods of fertility and Freyr is usually depicted with a large phallus! He's also the ruler of Alfheim and Lord of the Elves.
Freyja, on the other hand, was accused by Loki of having slept with all of the Gods and Elves. Beyond that it gets even more strange because there's evidence to suggest that Freyja and Frigg — Odin's wife — are in fact the same goddess! As always, the family tree of the Norse Gods and Goddesses can be a little hard to follow. Regardless, it's fair to say that wherever fertility is involved — including bountiful harvests and wealth — these two are never far away. Ullr or Ull is the God of Winter, Hunting.
Hand-to-hand Combat and the Willow Tree. The pronunciation is ull-r, with the emphasis on the first syllable.
However, the name is often written as Ull in English language texts. He's the son of Sif and the stepson of Thor.
He is married to Skadi — the Goddess of Winter — and was said to be a great archer and skier, often using his shield like a modern-day snowboard. In both scenarios, all the gods love Baldur — all except Loki, who in Norse mythology hated the dude. Loki talked a guy named Hodr into shooting Baldr with a mistletoe dart, killing the god. When Odin asked Hel to let Baldr come back to life, she agreed, as long as every living thing cried for him. That woman was Loki in disguise, because Loki really hated Baldr.
Anyways, in the comics, Loki accomplishes the same murder, but Balder is successfully resurrected. She was famous for her long blonde hair until a prank by Loki cut it off, at which point she was so sad that crops would not grow. Yet he didn't encourage his son to dream on his own, and when Odin went against him he was driven to rage. When Odin created man, not being able to undo his son's actions, in his anger Bor visited every possible horror imaginable upon them.
When the enemies of Asgard once more threatened them, Bor led his forces against them with his son Odin at his side. Together with his son, they proved too much for the Frost Giants to handle and routed them easily.
When one attempted to escape, Bor, true to form, pursued his foe and fell headlong into their trap. A powerful sorcerer was waiting for him who was actually the present day incarnation of Loki in disguise , and knowing he could not match him power for power, caught him unawares turning him into snow. Bor's son came around just in time to watch the last of him blown away, and he begged Odin to find a sorcerer to free him. Years passed, and Odin did not attempt to save his father, instead leading Asgard on his own and following his own dreams.
At first, Bor attempted to convince his son to free him, yet as the years passed and a son was born to Odin, Bor realized that his son would never free him. Seeking revenge, Bor promised Odin that he would bother him no more if he took in the son of a fallen king and raised it as his own.
Not a week later, Odin killed the father of Loki who was a king. Odin took Loki into his house to appease his father, and set the events of his own doom into motion. What Odin never realized was that the Bor who had been torturing him from beyond the grave was actually just an illusion created by the present-day Loki. Loki used "her" powers to undo the spell she had used to kill Bor and resurrected him in the modern day. However, Loki also distorted his sense of reality thus making it seem as if Bor was in a nightmarish version of Earth overrun by demonic beings.
Convinced that he had lost his final battle and that his son was dead, he almost immediately went on a rampage and was eventually confronted by Thor who did not know Bor's identity at the time.
However Bor saw Thor as a demonic being and, taking into consideration that the Odin Force was emanating from Thor, believed that he had killed Odin. Bor lashed out at Thor and a battle of cataclysmic proportions broke out in the streets of New York City.
As the fight raged on, Bor was beginning to gain the upper hand. Thor knew that he couldn't stop Bor unless he had help. Further revealing the relation to Odin, as his brother, and Thor, as his nephew, Cul tried to convince Thor to join him in his cause, which Thor promptly refused, forcing the Serpent to teleport Thor away to where two of his Worthy, Nul: Breaker of Worlds , possessing the Hulk , and Angrir: Breaker of Wills , possessing the Thing , were waiting to battle the Thunderer.
Teleporting himself there shortly after, Cul joined Skadi in battle against the Avengers , where the Serpent easily pushed back the team and even intercepted an attack from Captain America's shield , breaking it a moment after. The Serpent then raised his hammer high and slammed it upon the Earth, obliterating the city in a devastating attack and disappearing amid the blast's wake.
Attempting to destroy Odin for stealing the right to the Asgardian throne, Cul and his new Asgard, full of his followers, journeyed to Broxton , Oklahoma , home to Thor's fallen Asgard, in an attempt to use Heimdall's Observatory to journey to the true realm eternal, Asgard. At the end, Thor slew his uncle with Odinsword , revealed to be Ragnarok, and died in the arms of his father, thus fulfilling the prophecy. The day after the battle, while the Avengers prepared Thor's funeral, Odin took his brother's corpse to Asgard, cast-out all the other Asgardians , and locked himself alone with the body to guard it until the end of times, while blaming himself for not saving his son from death.
Cul was later seen reborn alongside Odin during his self-exile, when the All-Father was reached by Loki. One of his first tasks was to retrieve the mystical hammer Mjolnir from the new Thor. He later confronted her while possessing the Destroyer Armor. Thor struggled against Cul until aid came in the form of Odinson, Freyja, and an army of the women Odinson had suspected to be the new Thor. Following the disappearance of the Odinson and the beginning of Malekith 's War of the Realms , Odin became a tyrant and began to rule Asgardia with an iron fist.
He created the Thunder Guard to protect his sovereignty and appointed Cul to lead it. Later, after finding Loki, Cul told him to warn the Dark Council that Asgardia was off-limits to them. Odin eventually emerged from the Odinsleep and reprimanded Cul for being an incompetent ruler.
Cul also watched as Mangog ripped the armor apart and left Frejya in pain. Cul fled Asgardia along with the other Asgardians for the safety of the Moon. When the War of the Realms approached its zenith, Odin sent Cul on a mission to Svartalfheim to find out how Malekith's forces traveled undetected to Heimdall.
After informing Odin of its location, Cul stayed behind to learn as much as he could about Malekith's plan and the workings of the Black Bifrost. Cul eventually decided to raid the mines where the Dark Elves mined magical crystalized mushrooms that powered the Black Bifrost in order to use them as ammunition to destroy it. In the mines, Cul came upon children Dark Elves that were being enslaved to mine the explosives. He initially intended to leave them behind despite their begging, but he changed his mind after reinforcements arrived.
Cul unshackled the children and had them flee while he held the soldiers back. In battle, Cul was mortally wounded and used his last moments to reflect on his life, and came to renounce his previous way of thinking, embracing the power of love.
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