https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx Legends of Northern Europe en-us 2024-02-14 18:43:54 UTC 2024-03-03 14:43:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9dd-2640.png lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883867174 -Elves first appeared in Norse Myths.                                              -The are graceful creatures that are as happy and bright as the sun]]> 2024-02-14 19:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883867174 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883868839 -First appeared in Greek myths
-They where giant monster who fought the Olympian Gods]]> 2024-02-14 19:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883868839 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883878531 -Thanks to The Lord of the Rings elves have become popular in modern entertainment.
-Many popular games and books have been inspired by Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, such as Dungeons and Dragons, and the Keebler elf.]]> 2024-02-14 19:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883878531 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883884380 In many early German Folktales elves are evil creatures who have close ties with the devil. 😈]]> 2024-02-14 19:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883884380 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883888066  For their own enjoyment, many times in German folktales elves would swap their deformmd children for human ones. ]]> 2024-02-14 19:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883888066 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883933683 -It was said that elves where often responsible for plagues and bad luck]]> 2024-02-14 20:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883933683 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883949806 From the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien was inspired by the dark elves in Norse myths]]> 2024-02-14 20:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883949806 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883954204 -In Norse Myths there where also elves that were ugly also less virtuous but not evil.
-They lived deep underground. 
-They where NOT dwarves]]> 2024-02-14 20:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883954204 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883956242 -Tolkien was inspired by many of the elves of Norse myths

]]> 2024-02-14 20:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883956242 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883962302 -Tolkien was the first “Modern” author to make them more human, yet they are still magical. 
-This was one of the reasons that Tolkien made elves ears pointy, to show that they are almost human but still magical]]> 2024-02-14 20:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2883962302 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885001676 -Many elves in German folk tales were mischievous and petite]]> 2024-02-15 16:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885001676 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885007383 2024-02-15 16:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885007383 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885010141 2024-02-15 16:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885010141 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885011026 -Before the gods fearsome frost giants roamed the land
-From their dead bodies elves were born.
-The giants skull also became the earth.]]> 2024-02-15 16:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885011026 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885022475 2024-02-15 16:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885022475 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885163576 -Tolkien was inspired by the frost giants of Norse myths.
-He made them his own by making them the fearsome giant rock monsters we read about]]> 2024-02-15 18:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885163576 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885166053 2024-02-15 18:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885166053 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885167128 2024-02-15 18:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885167128 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885167780 2024-02-15 18:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885167780 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885169056 2024-02-15 18:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885169056 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885173233 2024-02-15 19:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885173233 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885174521 2024-02-15 19:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2885174521 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2889923058 -Giants were the offspring Gaia, the earth and Uranus, the sky.
Uranus was afraid that they would be too powerful and overthrow him. Thus he imprisoned them deep within the earth.  -Unfortunately he was incorrect and their brothers, the Titans ended up killing him.]]> 2024-02-20 18:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2889923058 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2889931620 -Giants are in lots of popular modern fairy tales such as Jack and the Bean Stalk.
*I don’t know why it says Irvington, but I can’t delete it]]> 2024-02-20 19:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2889931620 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2889937089 -Lots of folktales in Germany portray Giants as big stupid creatures that are cannibals.]]> 2024-02-20 19:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2889937089 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2889938233 2024-02-20 19:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2889938233 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2892818228 By Ellen Karakosta Elves: A Concise History The Writers Initiative February 8th, 2021 https://writersinitiative.com/creative-writing/elves-a-concise-history]]> 2024-02-22 19:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2892818228 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2892818676 Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "elf". Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Dec. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/topic/elf-mythology. Accessed 8 February 2024.]]> 2024-02-22 19:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2892818676 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2892819100 Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "giant". Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Jan. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/topic/giant-mythology. Accessed 13 February 2024.]]> 2024-02-22 19:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2892819100 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2892819482 Chabon, Michael. D’aulaires Book of Norse Myths. The New York Reveiw of Books, 1904]]> 2024-02-22 19:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2892819482 lucasclair https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2892823253 2024-02-22 19:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lucasclair/xqckh8agw1kyjxnx/wish/2892823253