Yankees, Beware the Myth of Ratatosk!

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Published 8/31/2007 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
... , spinning it forward into a comparison with an ancient Norse myth. Via the FanHaus : Believe it or not, the squirrel's actions closely resembled those of Ratatosk, or "gnawing tooth," a squirrel in Norse mythology that climbed up and down a tree that represented the world. Snorri Sturluson, an Icelandic scholar and poet, recorded the story in his 13th-century work "Prose Edda."As the story goes, Ratatosk carried insults as it traveled to opposite ends of the tree, fueling a rivalry between the evil dragon residing at the bottom of the tree and the eagle perched at the top. She said in a telephone interview yesterday that in the Bronx version of this myth, the Yankees would probably represent the eagle and the rival Red Sox would represent the dragon. The Yankees, after all, are the home team this week, more or less making them the good guys. And if there were a sports team ident ...