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RE: The power of the Sunset - The Witching Hour
Here in the North we have very dark winters and the sunset in November or December is mostly just a wet gray dimming of the light. Witching hour at 16:00
One of the fears of the old Norse was that the winter would continue throughout the summer and this winter even had a name: Fimbul, one of the signs that Ragnarok would come. Therefore we celebrate the time when the sun will return again and we even have kept the old name of this celebration: Jul, a heathen name for Christmas. In the midsummer it never really gets dark. A very long sunset that slowly transforms into a very long sunrise.
In other words, Winter Is Coming!
Norse mytholgy is very interesting, with the Runes, the Gods and the Valkyries. An old video game, Ultima, was the first time I read about runes, and I was impressed a lot by the Norse culture. Of course, Christianity was built on the concepts of older religions, Roman, Norse and Egyptian, but this would be the subject of another post (or rather, several posts!).
Yes, there is no doubt where Martin got that from. I am looking forward to your post on mythology. I am very interested in that subject.
You might enjoy a series of steemit articles about runes, the Secrets of the Scandinavian Gods.
I am a little picky when it comes to the scripture of my forefathers, but I'll give it a look. Meanwhile you can see this image I made of Odin hanging in the Yggdrasil to gain to magic of the runes - called the mead of the skald:
https://steemit.com/art/@katharsisdrill/odin-hanging-from-the-ask-yggdrasil