Frozen 2 thoughts on Agnarr and Iduna
The start of Frozen 2 really hammers on the theme of status quo or even stasis. This movie never forgets its a musical and there are so many songs.
It was great to see the start of that night and to hear the backstory of King Agnarr and Queen Iduna. It is so sweet to see the family together and happy. They do seem to be a quite happy and stable family, but things change. By time we get to the end of the movie we learn a lot about the royal family. King Agnarr became the boy king because he was the only person from Arendelle to escape the Enchanted Forest before the mist closed it off. King Runeard was a proud, racist, colonialist king. Yet Agnarr didn’t seem to be like that. Mainly because he wouldn’t have had a choice, loosing the entire military would have been a major blow and Arendelle is not that big of a kingdom.
Agnarr would have had to spend some time recovering because it looked like that traumatic brain injury would have been significant. He was unconscious for some time, usually you will wake from a blow to the head in a minute but to be down longer is a sign of deeper injury. He seems to have amnesia about that time period and he was the only available witness.
While he was recovering Arendelle was vulnerable. No military, a young, inexperienced and injured king. They may have lost up to 10% of their population in that Enchanted Forest debacle. I suspect they went into a bunch of trade deals to prevent invasion.
Since he was reading a book on a diplomatic mission I figure he was also mostly an introvert, which makes the later lock down to protect Elsa make more sense.
Iduna is far more interesting. She’s Northuldra, a nomad of the Enchanted Forest, and very familiar with magic. She plays with Gale and flies with Gale’s help. Suddenly she finds herself in the middle of a battle with her new friend Prince Agnarr injured. They are kids for goodness sakes. So she did what she probably did all the time, call on the magical spirits for help. And what a call for help it was that it ended up echoing for 35 years. Gale threw them into a cart, hiding Iduna under a blanket, and sent them out of the forest before the mists locked everything down.
I am curious about what happened to her between the time of the battle to when she married Agnarr. They were friends but they were too young to fall in love. So he would have met her for the first time a second time. She’s a good and caring person, so I wonder what she had to do to hide her Northuldra heritage and appear like a citizen Arendelle. With her own personal survival at stake I don’t think she was type to be maneuvering to marrying the king. Love bloomed later, somehow. And she was gifted with Elsa and Anna.
I am thinking that the Northuldra leader (Hey, Disney could you give him a name, please.) was the Fifth Spirit, and Iduna was his daughter. I think that would make sense for her to have that powerful connection. She could have been the next Fifth Spirit but for the murder of her father and the spirits sent her away. They were going for a different path. I am thinking that the spirits were setting things up to bring peace to the two nations. They could have made the Northuldra powerful enough to stop King Runeard but they did not. Iduna hid who she was even from her husband for decades but I am certain she finally revealed herself to Agnarr and what she knew of Ahtohallan not long before they left on that ship. That must have come as a shock but it did not break their love.
They went to the Dark Sea and were killed by the Nokk.
I don’t think they were as bad parents as a lot of people make them out to be. Did they make less then ideal decisions? Sure, but Elsa wasn’t their only concern. It takes a long time to rebuild a military, It takes a lot of attention to not reveal your past. And how do you teach someone to use magic if you don’t have magic yourself? Trade alliances need to be maintained, and the citizens of the kingdom need to see their monarch at least sometimes. And when you are spending months looking for a solution and you find one that works some of the time, well, you go with what you have. It gives them flaws and makes them human.
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