ext_58540 ([identity profile] beckyh2112.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] beckyh2112 2011-05-29 07:53 pm (UTC)

I suspect it was the influence of Christianity and the introduction of the concept of a Devil figure. You also didn't have Surtur, the fire elemental who would burn the universe to ashes during Ragnarok, in the earlier myths.
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