Norse Gallery
Odin = O-Din {You should know this...}
Thor = Th-Or {You should know this...}
Ullr = Ul {Nothing more to it, the -lr is silent, and is more to describe the natural recovery-inflection you'll make when you pronounce it correctly. It's not even 'oooolur'. It really is that simple. It's just Ul, same phonetic as the last half of the word 'Hull'}
Tyr = Tier {Straightforward.}
Heimdallr = H-Eye-Mm-Dall-R {Slight pause part way through, goes Heim-Dallr. While tempting to bridge with a syllable, it's not Heimerdaller, it's a sharp change at both m-d and l-r}
Freya = Fr-eihh-Ahh {Straightforward. Not Frey-Ahh, the central phonetic is far softer than a 'Y'}
Sol
= Sol
{Very difficult}
{And >inb4 retards, it's not 'Soul' or 'Sole', it's literally *just* 'Sol'}
Ymir = (y)iih-Meer {The Y is silent, but still inflected}
Skadi
= Ska-thh-ii
{Don't ask. Slight emphasis on the 't', but still flows into a 'th' phonetic; visually would be best anglacised as Skatthi}
{The '-di' is from a different concept within Norse mythology that became correlated with her, as the letter from Old Norse used in her name was phased out, after the Germanic Christians loved thy neighbour too hard (a.k.a. genocided) the Norse. Skadi later become her colloquial name but is ultimately inaccurate / incorrect. If you DO want to call her 'Skadi' in that case it's pronounced Ska-Di(s), inflected but silent s. You don't end with an -eee, you just hardstop at the 'i' as if you were about to follow up with an 's'. Again, it's incorrect to do it that way, I was just mentioning for posterity, the 'Skatthi' version is best}
{Beam me up, Skadi!}
Surtr = Sur-t-r {Hardswitch from T to R, no Turr, it's quite literally 'T-R'}
{Having been the previous Fire Giant.... he's had a lot of styles and designs over the years}
Loki = L-oh-Key {You should know this...}
Hel = Hel {I mean, where do you think the word 'Hell' came from}
Fenrir
= Fen-R-ii(z)s
{Don't ask because in this case... I uhh... actually have no idea how or why or it came to be spelt with a -r suffix, and everyone I know who also knowledgeable in the field doesn't actually know either (which is contextually pretty fuckin rare). I think this is just kind of one of those semi-retarded quirks of history we'll never get to the bottom of, and is best stated as ''probably just caught on'' with the transition from the Old Norse language}
= {Almost a hard -s, best said with a silent z inflection. The big dawg has quite a few names, and ironically, the anglacisation of one of them puts across his correct pronunciation better, Fenrisulfr further adding to the bewilderment of the -r suffix (like, seriously, ???). If you weren't aware 'Fen' is a different way to say wetlands, (typically Peat-bog wetlands, common in Scandinavia), while -Ulf (-wolf) is the same pronunciation found in the word for the Norse Werewolves (the Ulfhedinn); Fenrisulfr literally translating as (the) Wolf Fenrir, or (the) Wolf of the Fens. Hence simplest translations would be, Fenrir = 'That which lives in the Wetlands' and Fenrisulfr = 'Wolf of the Wetlands'. Damnsite easier than his other name... 'Hrodvitnir'}
= {tl;dr Fenris, Don't ask why, and yes, people will understand who you're talking about if you call the damn mutt Fen-Rear}
Jormungandr = Your-Mun-Gan-D-R {Hardswitch from D to R, no Durr, it's quite literally 'D-R'}
Fafnir = Fafv-Nir {Straightforward.}
Ratatoskr
= Rat-At-Oscar
{I can't believe he won one!}
{More seriously, Ratatoskr is supposed to be a literal Sabre-Toothed Squirrel (a Red Squirrel, not the filthy grey rats from burgerland), which sounds fucking awesome.... until I tell you that a squirrel's sabre-teeth usually come from the lower jaw like a boar, over the Sabre-Toothed Tiger's megafangs you were thinking of. The suffix -toskr being an old way to say Tusk / Emphasised Teeth (which is where we get that word from today there's some bickering in the field as to if the chicken or the egg / tusk or teeth came first, but it's the same endresult for the implication in Ratatoskr's name) and is phonetically indistinguishable from -t-Oscar.}
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