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Myths My Great-Granddaughter Taught Me

by Fritz Leiber

A grandpa living in the Cold War era receives a visit from his great-granddaughter who wants to know details about Norse mythology.
“That's right,” she told me, nodding. “Khrushchev was the giant Skymir, I’m pretty sure. Jotunheim and Asgard are Russia and America, all set to shoot missiles at each other across England and Europe, which must be Midgard, of course—though sometimes I think the English are the Vanir.”
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“Myths My Great-Granddaughter Taught Me,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1963.
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