Norse mythology

Since the British military had a strict policy against using codenames which in any way revealed the purpose of an operation or piece of equipment, at first few thought anything of the moniker.

However, during the Battle of the Beams, Jones had correctly deduced that a German device called Wotan, the German version of Odin, the one-eyed king of the Norse gods, used a single navigation beam.

He thus wondered whether the codename Freyja might have a similar, not-so-hidden meaning.

Brushing up on his Norse mythology, Jones discovered that the goddess Freyja was closely associated with a magic necklace called Brisingamen, which was guarded by Heimdall, the servant of the gods said to be able to see a thousand miles through any kind of weather.

was a tenuous connection but as jones later wrote it is unwise to lay too much stress on this evidence but these are the only facts that seem to have any relation to our previous knowledge actually heimdall himself would have seemed the best choice for a code name for rdf but perhaps it would have been too obvious it is difficult to escape the conclusion therefore that the freya jurat is a form of portable rdf Freya may possibly be associated with Wotan.

She was at one time his mistress, although it would have been expected that the Führer would have in this case chosen Freya, Wotan's lawful wife." But speculation soon gave way to reality, as RAF bombers began flying ever more night missions over occupied Europe, where they fell prey to surprisingly accurate fire from anti-aircraft guns and night fighters.

containers this was perhaps the riskiest aspect of the operation not only did the raiders risk being dispersed over a wide area but the time needed for them to regroup and recover their weapons was time the enemy could use to mobilize and bounce an effective defense indeed the vulnerability of lightly armed airborne troops against well-entrenched defenders had been dramatically revealed the year before when in may 1941 some 22 000 german forshimiaga landed on the greek island of crete The largest airborne landing in history up to that point, and the first attempt to capture a target entirely from the air, the operation, codenamed Operation Mercury, proved a pyrrhic victory, with the Germans losing nearly 6,000 men and 3,000 aircraft.

In the wake of this near disaster, Adolf Hitler forbade any further large-scale airborne operations, and thereafter the Fallschirmjager served mainly as elite ground troops, or carried out smaller-scale raids, such as the daring mountaintop rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on September 12, 1943, but that is a story for another video in any events as the successful assault on fortress ebb and ml demonstrated the most effective way of maintaining the vital element of surprise was to land fully armed paratroopers directly on the target using assault gliders like the german dfs-230 but while the british had developed their own assault gliders the general aircraft hotspur and hamilcar rent the airspeed horser By the time Operation Biting was being planned, not enough gliders or trained pilots were available.

And then there are a few exceptions, like, um, um, the monkey god also I think has a lineage, Wuhanarchaeota, and a few other, uh, there are a few others like that.

But anyway, most of them are named after Norse gods.

And I will say the archaea people-

Oh, my bad.

Norse.

I messed it up

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the archaea people have these amazing drawings of bacteria wearing Norse god costumes.