The Nine Realms offer much to a warrior born, but short of the self-service area of Ikea, nowhere offers words and names quite as satisfying as those below.
(To get the full effect you must shout these words in a husky voice, as if riding into battle with frost giants. Verily.)
5. GROLF!
He’s a storm giant, and he has no patience for bad navigation. Yell it out loud, and it’s the only single syllable entry in the list.
4. YGGDRASIL!
There is a magnificent and as yet unheard of combination of consonants in his word. It is not easy to shout, but once you get it, and emply the proper amount of spurned fury, the name of the World Tree shouts good. Real good.
3. HVERGELMIR!
It is the wellspring of all cold, located in Niflheim. Imagine yourself being hauled by two goats, frothing with rage, and let it fly.
2. JOTENHEIM!
You can combine this one with #5, because Jotenheim is the home of the giants, such as Grolf. A “J” as a “Y” sound is always a bonus. For Jotenheim! Oh yeah, that’s satisfying. And F’ing metal, to boot.
1. SVARTALFHEIM!
Home of the Dark Elves, I’m not even sure I can pronounce that, but once mastered, Svartalfheim might actually just be the best word ever coined. I think the key is the “LFH” in the middle. If you hear this bellowed in the night, get out of there, because you don’t want to mess with Dark Elves. Then again, you’d never hear them coming. Svartalfheim is just that powerful a word.
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Gesundheit!
I just blurted out GROLF! while my students were taking their final.
@ s1lentslayer – HA
How is Frigga not on this list?? It’s like cursing!
Yggdrasil does wonders for cosmically induced yeast infections.
Can we get an addendum that provides the proper pronounciation for these Nordic names?
@finbarbat To the best of my knowledge: Gra-oalf. (Like Oaf with an L in it!).
Yig-Dra-sil.
Hewer-gell-meer. (Vs are pronounced like Ws. Valhalla, really is Wallhalla, Valkyrie – Walkyre.)
Jot-un-heim.
Swart-alf-heim.
@finbarbat The mystery is part of the fun. Unless you’re @PraxJarvin who has to be suuuuuch a know-it-all.
@jimski Looks like @themanagement took you up on your twitter challenge yesterday: “If someone manages to see this week’s @iFanboy Top 5 and comment “What, no ‘____’?” they will impress and disappoint me at the same moment.” 😀
If I could go back in time and help create language, I’d name things after the sounds you make while puking and/or sneezing too. Them Vikin’ folk sure are swell dudes.
I knew it would be Prax. Had to be.
I yelled all of these at break. Not only are my coworkers giving me dirty looks, but my throat’s a little thor.
@MisterShaw Then take thum athprin, thilly!
@PaulMontgomery Beat me to it!
BTW is the land of colds called SNIFFLEHEIM? see what I just did there?
I’m going to start using “VOLSTAG!” as my all purpose curse word, replacing my current word, “Belgium!”
the funny things is i have already seen the movie so i know exactly how each of those words are pronounced