SIGMA VIKING MALE? The Viking hero Starkad / Starkaðr was a warrior-poet with extra arms who was blessed by the god Odin. This aristocratic transgressive lone wolf character is actually a prehistoric Indo-European archetype equivalent to Hercules in Greece, Suibhne in Ireland and Krishna’s cousin Siśupāla of Chedi from the Hindu religion of India. In this video I explain who Starkad was and how his myths parallel other Indo-European stories of a Sigma male outsider who loves kings, hates the lower classes, is rude to women and goes into mad rages of extreme violence against his enemies. Do you have the traits of the Indo-European sigma male warrior-poet?
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Starkad art by Christian Sloan Hall
Suibhne art by Graman
Memes by Chad Pastoralist
Stock footage from Envato and pexels
Music by:
Khan Kurra - Little Dragon
Backward - saidbysed
Ormgård - Sjálfsforn
Borg - the dancing forest
aakash gandhi - Eyes of Glory
Bark Sound Productions - vrm, mmy
Kevin Beorn - Se Freca, Hel wese thu Weda
Elegiac - ash wind interlude
Doug Maxwell - Bansure Raga
Kevin MacLeod - big mojo, moorlands, rites
Leiptr - space nords
Lorcán Mac Mathúna - Dinseannchas
Borg - The May Queen enters the circle
Halindir - Comfy
Street Rhapsody - DJ Freedem
Sources:
-Compton, T., ‘Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History’ Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies (2006).
-Cohen, D. “Suibhne Geilt.” Celtica 12:113–124. (1977).
-Dumézil ‘Aspects de la fonction guerrière chez les Indo-Européens’ (1956).
-Hui, J ‘’Svá segir Starkaðr’: Manipulating Memoralisation in Gautreks saga’ (2015).
-Puhvel, J., ‘Comparative Mythology’ (1987).
00:00 Introduction
00:57 Who is Starkad?
02:21 Starkad in Beowulf and Saxo
09:07 Starkad in Gautreks Saga
15:00 Other sources for Starkad
15:30 Comparative mythology
17:12 Siśupāla
26:29 Suibhne
28:55 Herakles
32:47 Conclusion
36:27 Credits
EDIT: a portion of this video had to be removed due to a copyright strike. It explained that Sisupala’s extra arms and eye were removed when he was placed on Krishna’s lap as a baby and that Krishna agreed to forgive the child 100 sins in total.
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