Back during Ragnarök, Asgard, along with the withered Yggdrasil, had fallen from the sky. Deathstroke caught it and placed it on the coastal land of northern Alaska. For Yggdrasil, it might have felt a little like returning home.
Thor and Loki's trip through space had only been for fun. After finding a branch from the Yggdrasil of the DC Universe, they naturally returned at once to watch over their own World Tree and await the results of the grafting.
Planting a tree could not be rushed, especially when that tree was an ancient god. So they had been rather bored lately.
It was now autumn on 40K Earth, likely also the most changeable season in Alaska. Aside from the howling winds, freezing rain, and ever-dropping temperatures, the nights within the Arctic Circle were growing longer. During the shortening days, all kinds of beasts could often be seen foraging, stockpiling food and nesting materials for the winter.
The Aesir had once been a people who lived in the region of ancient Norway on Earth, and people had always liked learning wilderness survival skills from the animals living around them.
So now that autumn had arrived and the beasts were all preparing for winter, Loki suggested to his brother that they go fishing on the ice, bring the catch home, and make smoked fish for winter. Thor agreed without hesitation.
Strictly speaking, hunting and fishing were men's work in Asgardian custom. So long as the men of the household had not gone off to war or all died out completely, women had no place participating in such work.
This was not gender discrimination. At its core, it was simply the protection of those capable of bearing children during the development of a tribe. The custom of men handling external affairs and women