Myths and legends can often seem strange to us. But behind shapeshifters, ancient curses, and magic spells are surprisingly practical, down-to-earth meanings. One of the best ways to see this is to look at the influences of ancient stories that carry through into modern works. One Old Norse story, The Saga of the Volsungs, features themes of power, corruption, and transformation using a symbolic language that will be well familiar to fans of works like JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Mythos & Logos are two ancient words that can be roughly translated as “Story & Meaning.”

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The purpose of this channel is to share the important stories at the foundation of human cultures throughout history. These include mythology, legends, folktales, religious stories, and parables from the dawn of history to the modern day. This channel provides interpretations and insight into these stories, to find and apply their meaning to contemporary life. All stories covered are treated academically. This channel makes no claims regarding the historical, scientific, or religious truth of these tales. Rather, its goal is to find the meanings understood by their authors and apply them to the modern world.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:03 Achilles by Antonio Raffaele Calliano
00:22 Sigurd and Gunnar at the Fire by JC Dollman
00:42 The Ballad of Sigurd and Gudrun Manuscript by JRR Tolkien
01:00 The Rhinemaidens try to Reclaim Their Gold by Arthur Rackham
02:12 Transformed by Greed
02:16 Siegfried by Arthur Rackham
02:30 Hadding and the One-Eyed Old Man by Louis Moe
02:45 Siegfried at Regin's Forge by Wilhelm Hauschild
03:00 Mural from Wohnhaus, Villa Athen, Austria, photographed by X50a2, licensed under Creative Commons
03:30 Lithograph of an Otter by JB, licensed by Wellcome Images under Creative Commons
04:08 Lokasenna by Lorenz Frølich
05:20 Loki from Icelandic Manuscript SÁM 66
05:41 Gold Arm-Ring from the British Museum
05:57 Illustration from The Story of Sigurd by Andrew Lang
06:42 The Fearless One
06:44 Rasmund Carving photographed by Patrick Bürgler, licensed under Creative Commons
07:00 Siegfried Slaying Fafnir by Arthur Rackham
07:19 Mime and the Wanderer by Arthur Rackham
07:46 Odin in the Volsung Hall by Emil Doepler
08:11 Fafnir by Arthur Rackham
08:24 Siegfried Slaying Fafnir by Arthur Rackham
08:43 The Saga of the Volsungs, Chapter 18
09:07 Loge and Fafnir by Arthur Rackham
09:39 The Saga of the Volsungs, Chapter 18
10:08 Illustration from Die Gartenlaube published by Ernst Keil's Nachfolger
10:31The Price of Power
10:32 Door of the Hylestad Knave Church
11:12 Door of the Hylestad Knave Church
11:40 Siegfried and the Twiligjht of the Gods by Arthur Rackham
12:16 The Death of Fafnir by Howard Pyle
12:30 Illustration of Thirteenth Century Scandinavian Jewelry
13:19 Funeral of a Rus' Nobleman by Henryk Siemiradzki
13:40 Volsunga Saga Manuscript
14:09 Conclusion
14:13 Carving of Sigurd at Oslo City Hall
14:37 The Story of Sigurd by Andrew Lang
15:02 Viking Armada by Edward Moran
15:24 Napoleon I in Coronation Robes by François Gerard
15:30 Napoleon Abdicating in Fontainebleau by Paul Delaroche
15:33 Sigurd Pierced Him With His Sword by Arthur Rackham
15:39 Statue of Siegfried by Aloys Löhrer
15:49 The Forging of Balmung by Howard Pyle

Ambiment - The Ambient by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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