Common Misconceptions (Patreon)

Far more than horned helmets and drinking mead out of skulls, the two most widespread misconceptions I run into are:

1. Snorri Sturluson wrote the Poetic Edda (sometimes this appears in the form of "the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda are the same thing").

2. Old Norse was written in Elder Futhark.

There are also runner-ups, nos. 3 and 4, though these come up more often with people who have done a little more study:

3. The true name of Thor is Pórr (misreading Þ as P rather than Th) and of Hǫðr is Höor (misreading ð as o rather than đ/th), etc.

4. Modern Icelandic is the same thing as Old Norse (sometimes people don't even realize they think this, simply because Modern Icelandic has been presented to them as Old Norse and never called Modern Icelandic).

Because Youtube's analytics show that most of my videos' views come from one-time only viewers, I often repeat myself in my efforts to combat these widespread misconceptions. 

In my latest video, which is now the first item in my "Runes" playlist, I put my newfound ability to add text (and runes) to a video before uploading to try to communicate more clearly than before the differences between the various runic alphabets and which languages they were actually used to write. I might have to follow this up sooner or later with a video about how to write Modern English in runes, since I get that question way too much and even though there are a lot of problems with doing it, everyone seems to want to.

This video was filmed at Rocky Mountain National Park. I believe the mountains visible behind me are the Mummy Range.

Are there other common misconceptions you think I should address?