Seeing is Believing

This essay was composed for a seminar on Viking culture and literature, also at CMRS.  While it is concerned more with a contemporary response to the Edda than that text itself, I feel that this flaw is to the overall benefit of the piece.  (Also, I’m a huge Gaiman fan, and consider it a privilege to have had the opportunity to work so closely on American Gods.)

Seeing is Believing: American Gods and the Poetic Edda
 “the Terrible One of the Æsir… he looked in her eyes/ ‘Why do you question me?  Why do you test me?” — Voluspá, s. 29, ll. 2-3
 “People believe, thought Shadow.  It’s what people do.  They believe.  And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations.  People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.  People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen” — American Gods, 536.

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