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6243717 No.6243717 [Reply] [Original]

how do i into norse mythology? what are some important texts? where do i start? pic semi-unrelated.

>> No.6243735

>>6243717
with the greeks

>> No.6243752
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6243752

>>6243717
Norse mythology: Worship the fighting gods who will teach you how to be a good fighter so that you can die fighting and go to Valhalla where you can fight for eternity.

Snowniggers, not even once.

>> No.6243791

no seriously guys, what is like the norse equivalent of the iliad or the odyssey?

>> No.6243804

>>6243791
Probably the Eddas...? Haven't read them but a friend of mine tells me it's pretty good&what you're looking for. I'd add Beowulf, despite it not really being the same thing. Read a translation like Heaney's, and then, absolutely, Meyer's, which is my personal favourite.

>> No.6245676

>>6243791
>>6243804

Read the Icelandic sagas too.

>> No.6245682

The Edda is a must, it has some pretty dank divine scenes

>> No.6245688

Fuck Nordic, embrace your inner mongol and read the Kalevala. And afterwards the don Rosa Donald duck story about it.

>> No.6245697

>>6243791
kaevala

>> No.6245711

>>6243717
kalevipoeg

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6245715

>tfw Liz Bathory will never have your children

feels inadequate

>> No.6245770

That album is god tier (pun intended)

>> No.6246762

>>6245770

?

what pun

>> No.6246795

>>6245697
Fun fact: Kalevala actually comes from Russia, not Scandinavia. Most of the original source material comes from a dude named Arhip Ivanovich Perttunen.

>> No.6246886

>>6243717
>Batlord
every time