Thread:Undoniel/@comment-3406131-20160105150003/@comment-61022-20160106181931

The Freya, Frigga thing... I'm not entirely clear on what's going on there.... I've read the story about Freya from the Marvel Super-Heroes Vol 2 story when I was doing preliminary work on the Expanded history of Thor page, but I haven't read. But it sounds like they're swapping out one character from a previously told mythological tale and replacing it with another... Which actually has happened here and there and can at least somewhat be explained. During my research into the ancient history of Thor, I found that a lot of the irregularities in various tales of Norse Mythology can be explained either by different interpretations of said myth (since like any really old religion a lot of the original work is long lost, and various translations and interpretations have resulted in various alternate versions of Norse myth based on different translations) In Marvel Comics in particular, especially with Thor, is that there are lots of conflicting information regarding the ancient history of Asgard.

Frigga/Freya is a new one to me, but there are plenty of inconsistencies with more well known characters like Sif and even Thor himself.

But typically Marvel explains them away in a few ways: The first and big one are the various Ragnarok Cycles that basically reboot Asgardian history. There are a number of stories that have taken place in previous Ragnarok Cycles that are both retellings of old Norse myths as well as stories that were previously recounted in older Thor comics. Stories have repeated themselves, others have different characters standing in for others (In some stories the Enchantress stands in for Idunn for example in and, the Reign of Blood story also rehashes events that were also elements in the Ring of the Nibelung saga from -.

Another, lesser explanation was one provided in which states that although Asgardians are immortal, their brains have a limited capacity for memory. Which makes them forget things as old memories are overwritten with new ones.

I think that when it comes to stories that delve into ancient mythology, all versions should be presented. So both Frigga and Freja should have mention to them being almost married off to Thrym. Listing the specific reference applicable to that character in their profile, then a mention of the alternate version where the other character was kidnapped instead. Followed by an statement that the validity of either account cannot be verified. Then in the citation explain all the issues pertaining to the Ragnarok Cycles and Asgardian memory limitations and the issues with mythology in general. Much like I did in the Thor Extended history. If you take a look there are quite a substantial amount of situations where I had to explain things in greater detail in the citations as spelling in out in the main body would have bogged things down. Which I think in cases with mythological characters we may have to do that so the explanations don't bog down the narrative pace of the main body of the character history.