Talk:Asgard

message: Tokerboy, the location and relative positioning of Urd/Asgard is a deeply vexed question in the field of Norse cosmogeny:
In some descriptions one of Yggdrasil's roots extended into Asgard and under it, Urd's well. The gods were said to have court at the well every day riding there "up over Bifrost". 
One of the problems with certain descriptions of the cosmology is why would the gods ride up over Bifrost if Urd's well was in Asgard? It seems logical that Urd's well was in the netherworld, that Asgard was in the branches of the world tree, and that the gods rode down Bifrost instead of up. user:sjc
:I'm not real sure, rereading my source, it's kind of ambiguous about where exactly everything was.  Go ahead and change anything that isn't right, because I can't tell what this means exactly, or mention the difficulties in assigning spatial relationships with these kinds of things.
::I would also like to challenge the section that states that Asgard was on Earth, and the Bifrost bridge linked Asgard to heaven. I don't think the prose states Asgard was on Earth. 'Earth' I thought was Midgard, and the Bifrost bridge connected to 'Heaven', Asgard. When (worthy) warriors died they went to Valhalla, Odin's hall in Asgard. Therefore Asgard and heaven are sort of the same; there may be some disambiguation caused by the creeping Christianity in some of the work, but I think it should be investigated. I'm sure there's a drawing of the world tree somewhere, that clears up the positioning of the layers of the Norse World.--FruitMonkey 10:22, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Locations

message: Granted, in 21st century America when people think Asgard, most think of, if anything, the race from Stargate, but this is supposed to be an article about the realm of Norse gods.  Nevertheless, over two thirds of this article is about the fictional, clone-race when it shouldn't mention them at all. If one would like to know about Stargate's Asgard, then he or she can do so through the Asgard disambiguation page. I think the sections Asgard in Stargate SG-1 and Asgard in fiction should be completely deleated from this page.
~JC
- Done - User:Kingdon
:I've created Asgard in popular culture - this should no longer be a problem. :bloodofox: 02:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ...And it was apparently deleted or I never got around to actually creating it. Whatever the case is, I've recreated it as these pages are very useful for collecting these random references that find their way on to the main article. :bloodofox: 19:28, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Norse '''not''' Stargate

message: In the section Popular Culture the sentence referencing the golem from the game Wild Arms 3 was organized... uniquely, so I altered it for ease of reading--Arynknight 01:27, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Just some 'ease of reading' stuff

message: There's an unnecessary amount on Wagner in the opening paragraphs. Franknotes 00:26, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much on Wagner 

message: Under the section "Other spellings" it says that in Danish and Swedish Asgård and Aasgaard is common. I don't know about Swedish but I doubt it. In Danish a double-a is an old form of the sound å which would make it sound funny in my ears. I'm a native Dane, raised with the stories about the old gods in both school and and media. Now even Hollywood is making their own versions. But I never heard anyone say Aasgaard/Åsgård. Maybe the first double-a was a mistake. In that case you would probably be able to find the spelling Asgaard in older texts but we don't use double-a anymore and I've never ever seen double-a in Swedish.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.110.44.130 (talk) 11:43, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aasgaard 

message: Substituted at 08:24, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The suggestion that part or all of the Ragnarök myth as described by Snorri is due to Christian influence should be sourced, and even if sourced, it shouldn't be presented as the only view.--94.155.68.202 (talk) 04:52, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm only just now seeing the issues with this article, which I've resolved by reducing the article to a well-cited stub for now. :bloodofox: (talk) 05:41, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ragnarök - Apocalypse 

message: As part of my academic curriculum, I am required to expand and contribute to any Wikipedia article in the Stub category. I've adhered to the Wikipedia guidelines and standards when contributing t this article. I hope my edits should prove useful and relevant. Please, let me know if you have any feedback or comments. I will be happy to review the relevant sections of the article. :Yours.kkuznets: (talk) 18:41, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article rewritten for the university assignment 

message: Currently the page reads:
: The latter is crucial to understanding the cultural and religious underpinnings of Norse mythology. It originates from the Germanic terms innangard ("inside the fence") and utangard ("beyond the fence").[6] Innangard represents the ordered state of existence, while utangard embodies chaos and disorder. The walls surrounding Asgard signify its orderly nature and Aesir gods' organised way of living.[7]
The way it's worded suggests that it was specifically named that way to evoke notions of orderliness. But, the word also appears in Utgard, supposedly the anti-Asgard, and Mitgard, as well as a slew of real-world locations. It looks like someone is reading way too much into a simple word.__Gamren (talk) 18:36, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a classic Chaoskampf interpretation stated as fact rather than one of many theories. I've since removed it. We should cover this interpretation, but not as straightforward fact, and in a dedicated section. :bloodofox: (talk) 19:45, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  -gard and associations of orderliness 

message: — Assignment last updated by Rockethound (talk) 22:08, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: HUM 202 - Introduction to Mythology

message: Hi everyone, I rewrote this article a few months back in line with it being a real mess. I now think it is less of a mess. Are you happy with the removing of the request for it to be rewritten? If not, what do you think it needs changing? Ingwina (talk) 06:58, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the writing is good and clear now, good job. One thing I'd say is the lead is a bit short, so it could be labelled with the template "lead fails to summarize article" but I didn't want to replace one with another, but if you have time, you might summarize the article further Dhalamh (talk) 08:22, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay perfect - I'll give it a go :) Ingwina (talk) 08:44, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewriting notice