Odin thinks Baldur is building his mead hall all wrong. Skylights,
plumbing, windows… these are modern notions that should be shunned
like a giantess with a rotten crotch!
A proper mead hall is a simple affair: a smoky, windowless room with wooden benches, a fire pit, and a trophy wall on which to display the severed heads of one’s enemies. Odin would rather sit in the dark than take an arrow in the face because someone insisted on having a lovely view of the fjord.
Frigg is excited that Baldur, her youngest son, is finally building his own mead hall and leaving home. Odin warns her not to say goodbye just yet. Baldur lacks the fortitude to deforest a hillside and transform it into a wooden palace of drinking, boasting, and rowdy romping. Right now his little lordship is probably apologizing to some robin for even thinking about disturbing her nest. Meanwhile, Thor is wondering where to put the 30,000 used tires that Baldur ordered for his ecofriendly mead hall.
I’m not sure how Odin has managed to kick his sons out of the house without any feet, but I never intended these comics to be completely literal. In any case, Frigg is dejected that her young son is leaving home, but Baldur comforts her, saying his new mead hall will be just over the ridge.
Vidar and Vali both left home after drunken brawls with Odin, and Thor was tossed out by the horns after he broke the bed with one of his giantessa girlfriends. Frigg cries tears of joy. Baldur is going to be first child to leave home without his father’s foot in his ass!
Baldur shares his mead hall blueprints with Odin. At Breidablik, skylights compliment a warm interior with candlelit tables and a few small booths to encourage intimate conversation. Upstairs, each of the seven theme bedrooms allows guest to experience what sleep is like in another zone of the biosphere. Each theme bedroom has a corresponding theme bathroom — if you’ve ever wanted to crap in the jungle, now’s your chance!
Odin hate the design. It’s not the theme bedrooms that bug him, it’s the indoor plumbing. Indoor plumbing is for old women and dwarves.
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