/lit/ - Literature

>>20577256
>1. OE because muh ancestors, muh Beowulf, muh Tolkein.


Have to get a good grasp of Latin and German first

Give me your most heart wrenching tragedies. I want to feel sad tonight

Anyone that goes to a university willing to share their email so I can get into scientific papers?
>t. community college pleb

What’s the best novel about a hero with a chosen destiny, a chosen one who, who becomes a legend? Beowulf esque

>>18253409
Beowulf

Hwæt!

After reading Beowulf I'm starting to become fascinated by the history of dragons in literature.
The Beowulf dragon was practically laissez-faire capitalistic in it's defense of property.
Smaug is also an interesting figure.

Other than Fafnir, which I intend to read at some point, what are some other historically significant literary portrayals of dragons?

>When you're living a secluded life on your own property with all your amassed wealth and your neighbor's slave trespasses to steal one of your jeweled cups, violating the NAP, so you burn every corner of your neighbor's land to ash

The Geat slave violated the NAP and stole from it, it was justified in launching it's recreational fire.

Is there any philosophies dealing with the virtual as being reality?

When it comes to mystical weapons that have particular well known names, how exactly are those names formed? A few examples being


How exactly are those names formed? A few examples being
>Nægling
It says the name derives from "nægl", or "nail".
>Gungnir
Old Norse "swaying one"
>Caladbolg
Middle Welsh "hard cleft"

2 questions:

1. the names that have origin words, but a bit obvious extra such as Nægling, were they simply words that were taken at the time that had extra letters tacked on to (I have no idea what the proper term is for this so I'll just say it) "namify" them?


2. These names sound alright to us today, but were they as simple and stupid as they sound translated to people speaking of them back when the language of their names were in common use?
That kind of seems on the level of someone naming their gun "straight shooter" "big bullet" "awesome"
I have never posted on this board before, so I apologize if this is the incorrect board for this question. I assumed Literature would be into languages and I was unable to find a QTDDTOT type thread.

Thank you for your time.