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Mjolnir = sentient robot
Posted By: Agent ShemDate: 9/15/02 9:14 a.m.

I've been doing some reading in Viking myth...

Mjolnir was the hammer of Thor. It was made by dwarves, but these dwarves were more like what we would call demigods, ie, they were spiritually powerful. They made the hammer to protect Valhalla, the realm of the gods. (ie, the 1337!) The hammer's virtue was that, if thrown, it would return to the thrower's hand.

This reminds me of another Mjollnir, the one numbered 54. So, let's assume that Bungie closely followed the viking myth. The dwarves would be alien beings who designed it to protect...something. When the "player" is thrown by the weilder (Strauss, Leela, Durandal, Tycho) he always returns to his current master. Not until the end of Infinity is he making his own choices.

1. Is there any relation between the Viking myth and the Bungie myth?

2. If so, who do the characters and places translate to, esp. the dwarves?

3. Is the "player" an intelligent slave of a "thrower"?

Shem

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Mjolnir = sentient robotAgent Shem 9/15/02 9:14 a.m.
     Re: Mjolnir = sentient robotarchon 9/15/02 3:29 p.m.
           Re: Mjolnir = sentient robotarchon 9/18/02 4:08 a.m.
                 Re: Mjolnir = slaveAgent Shem 9/18/02 6:18 p.m.
                       Re: Mjolnir = slaveScifiteki 9/18/02 9:23 p.m.
                             Re: Mjolnir = slaveBoomer 9/19/02 12:26 a.m.
                             Re: Mjolnir = slaveScifiteki 9/19/02 12:49 a.m.
                                   Re: Mjolnir = slaveAgent Shem 9/19/02 6:44 p.m.
                                   Re: Mjolnir = slaveD-M.A. 9/20/02 12:45 a.m.
                                         Re: Mjolnir = slavedarakat 9/21/02 12:39 a.m.
                                               Re: Mjolnir = slaveD-M.A. 9/21/02 3:39 a.m.
                                               Re: Mjolnir = slaveAgent Shem 9/21/02 8:35 a.m.
     Re: Mjolnir = sentient robotScifiteki 9/15/02 4:51 p.m.
           Re: Mjolnir = sentient robotJoyeuse 9/16/02 5:06 p.m.
     Ooooh I live in Sweden, I'm so cool *NM*Vid Boi @ Linux @ School 9/16/02 2:01 a.m.
           Thanks for that enlightening little piece, Boi.: ) *NM*Scifiteki 9/16/02 4:28 a.m.
           Yeah! We swedes rule! Let's drink some mead! *NM*Boomer 9/16/02 7:22 a.m.
                 Sweden owns!!!! *NM*goran 9/16/02 8:17 a.m.



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