Persons who should be on Chocolate Frog Cards

[alshainofthenorth]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pengolodh_sc"
<pengolodh_sc at y...> wrote:



> From Norway a good many of the chieftains from pre-Christian times 
> would fit the bill.  I believe it was Hårek from Tjøtta who Olav 
> Haraldson tried to execute by putting a tube down his mouth and 
> forcing an adder through it, but Hårek sang galder (magical songs) 
> against it, so it wouldn't enter.  Eventually they forced the snake 
> in with a burning candle anyway, and it went down his throat and bit 
> a hole out there, killing Hårek.  This was part of the ongoing 
> Christanisation of Norway - it tended to be rather bloody at times.
> 
> The Ynglinge-sage also shows many of the kings there having some form 
> of magical prowess, and mentions Odin and the other Norse gods as 
> being originally mighty chieftains and magicians descended from the 
> people of Troy.
> 
> Best regards
> Christian Stubø

Reminds me of Olof Rudbeck's work "Manhem" from the 17th century,
where he quite seriously argues that Sweden is really Atlantis and the
cradle of civilisation.

And the Finnish nominee is the wise old Väinämöinen from the Kalevala,
of course.

Alshain