Author's Note: This is a project I had to do for school, and since I had already written it, I figured I should post it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Norse or Greek mythology.
The shade of Yggdrasil covered the ground of Midgard, where a great man sat, his back resting on the rough bark. The man, Heimdall, guard of Asgrad, looked out into the world where a silhouette could be seen, slowly approaching. Curious, Heimdall sent for Odin so that the king of the gods could meet this stranger. The skies shook with power as Odin descended from his throne in Asgard. After bowing to the lord of the skies, Heimdall pointed to the nearing stranger who you could now see. It was a young women, with brown hair, and grey eyes, that seemed to know every thought and more. The young women reached the two gods, and bowed.
"Lords, I am Lady Athena, a goddess from the south, here to challenge the god of wisdom, Odin," she stated, her eyes piercing through the gods' eyes.
"Here to challenge me?" Odin cried. "Why on Midgard would you want to do that? I am the wisest of the gods, as my defeated foe, Vaftrudner, would tell you." Athena's eyes focused unwaveringly on Odin.
"If that is so, All-Father," Athena hissed, "Then tell me, where is home in my world?
"Home is where the hearth is," Odin replied easily. "Which is where Lady Hestia always sits. Tell me, who weaves the threads of every man's life, here in my world?"
"Why, the three Norns," Athena answered swiftly. "They sit below this very tree everyday. And what must the gods of Olympus always vow on, for the sake of honesty?"
As Odin answered, he shot a question to Athena, who answered it and shot one back at Odin. The questions continued well into the evening, until the moon shown directly above Yggdrasil, and even Heimdall's eyes began to droop. As Athena began her next question Heimdall snapped. "Stop!" he roared. Odin and Athena's heads shot to him. "Can't you see you are both equal in wisdom, just in different ways? Lady Athena you use your wisdom for strategy, and Lord Odin, you use your wisdom to outsmart our foes, who always seem to be knocking at our door. So in the end your wisdom stretches in different directions, but weighs the same." The gods looked at each other.
"Maybe," Athena reasoned. "It is Heimdall who is wisest." And Odin thoroughly agreed with her.