I will say that there are a lot of borrowed/recycled stories throughout history…
I don't consider them borrowed or recycled. I consider them to be the general understanding of the world at that time, which everybody knew. That's why there's so much similarity between myths all over the world. They're all telling the same story but from their own perspective.
Sn: I recently learned that, in Norse mythology, there's a
location named Niflheim. It's the abode of a goddess named Hel. Isn't that curious?
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There's another re-telling of biblical myth from their perspective:
In
Norse mythology,
Surtr (Old Norse "black"[1] or more narrowly "svart",
[2] Surtur in modern
Icelandic), also sometimes written
Surt in English,
[3] is a
jötunn; he is the greatest of the fire giants and further serves as the guardian of
Muspelheim, which is one of the only two realms to exist before the beginning of time, alongside
Niflheim.
[4] Surtr is attested in the
Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the
Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by
Snorri Sturluson. In both sources,
Surtr is foretold as being a major figure during the events of Ragnarök; carrying his bright sword, he will go to battle against the
Æsir, he will battle the major god
Freyr, and
afterward the flames that he brings forth will engulf the Earth...
Scholar Andy Orchard theorizes that the description of Surtr found in
Gylfaginning "appears to owe something to biblical and patristic notions of the angel with a flaming sword who expelled Adam and Eve from paradise and who stands guard over the Garden of Eden."
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