/lit/ - Literature

I am about to start with the Greek (TM), and have acquired both the Iliad and Odyssey (in my native language, Norwegian), but by just reading the foreword I understand that I need to know more about Greek mythology. Should I find a mythos collection in my own language? (which I haven't had good luck with so far) Or just read the version by Hamilton? if any other Norwegians/Scandinavians could help me out, that would be great.

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As a Norwegian, I can read and understand a lot of German without ever having learnt it at all. Not more than understanding a written dialog in German (Usually found in video games and on forums online etc), so I could never read a book in German at the point I am at now. I am assuming that it works the like that the other way too.

You could probably just learn Norwegian casually for a year or two (or perhaps 6 concentrated months) and I suppose you'll be pretty good. We already share the same pronunciation, and a lot of words.

I've always thought about Norwegian as simplified German, but I don't really know how accurate that is. The only thing I know is that loads of Norwegian grammar is really simple compared to German.