Then there's JMS' excuse for not using Shakespearian rhetoric to be lazy.
The excuse might be lazy, but I for one, am glad that the stupid shakespearian rhetoric is gone. Because on that part, JMS is right, it's fucking stupid to have a Norse mythological God speak that way!
I disagree. It's obvious that Stan Lee gave Norse and Olympean gods Shakespearian rhetoric to establish them as (for lack of a better word) higher and older beings. It gives there characters...character.
but it makes no sense for a Norse god to speak like that. And it makes them seem incapable of adapting language and grammar over time.