File:Good and Bad Prophets (among the Norse and Us)

Some thoughts on the obvious Norse reverence for people whose extra intelligence gave them the reputed ability to see the future, vs. their disdain for people who made an attempt to see the future deliberately, and how this is strikingly similar to the (implicit) attitude in our own culture.

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