Bragi? He’s a son of Odin, and the god of music and poetry.
And I’m laughing my absolute ass off that your aunt kept that a secret until she died, and feel like an ass for laughing. I’m sorry for your loss, but yeah, your grand-aunt was a heathen, and I may have to light a candle for her, because damn.
Oh. As for the apples…his wife is Idunna, who tends the golden apples that grant the gods ageless immortality.
Your grand-aunt was hella pagan.
I still cannot get over this. This woman fooled her entire family AND the people at her church into thinking that she was devoutly Catholic for who knows how many years, all while writing poetry to the ancient Norse god of skalds and his wife who she worshiped in the privacy of her own home.
Meanwhile, I almost out myself as heathen approximately every 10 seconds if I have to sit through even one (1) Christian service for a wedding or a funeral or whatever.
What a fucking legend.
In a way this makes me sad knowing she could never come out about her religion but man is Systlin right, she is a legend.
Do you know much of a god named Bragi? My family has been cleaning out the house of my grand-aunt how recently died of lung cancer and previously believed to be a very devoted Catholic. We found basically a shrine to a god named Bragi with poems and sheet music she appears to have written herself dedicated to him. We found the hidden shrine when we smelled something rotting–it turned out to be apples left on the shrine. Is he associated with apples? Family is a bit freaked, sorry to bother you.
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