Abstract:Norse Gods are repurposed by contemporary authors in different modes than those used for classical, Egyptian, African, and Native American gods. Whereas those others mostly lend a trace of heroic glamor or even help the characters in the novels, Odin and Loki are used to darker ends. Their connection to Ragnarok—Odin through knowing of its coming, and Loki for bringing it about—gives them more threatening roles. Gaiman, Byatt, and Östergren all locate their novels’ action in a situation of apparently waning power and threatening doom, and make connections between those two figures and our behaviors, ecological, political, and personal.

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洛基和奥丁：尼尔·盖曼、AS Byatt 和 Klas Östergren 重新设计的旧神

摘要：当代作家以不同于古典、埃及、非洲和美洲原住民诸神的方式重新利用了北欧诸神。其他人大多为小说中的人物增添一丝英雄魅力，甚至帮助他们，而奥丁和洛基则习惯了更黑暗的结局。他们与诸神黄昏的联系——奥丁知道它的到来，洛基带来了它——给了他们更具威胁性的角色。盖曼、拜亚特和奥斯特格伦都将他们小说的行动置于权力明显减弱和厄运威胁的境地，并将这两个人物与我们的行为、生态、政治和个人行为联系起来。