Want to start reading some Scandinavian lit. However, I don't know shit about the topic. What books should I get started on? Sagas also accepted. Pic related: they're the countries I give a shit about.

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Anonymous Mon Jul 12 01:30:41 2010 No.902544 [Reply] [Original]

Want to start reading some Scandinavian lit. However, I don't know shit about the topic. What books should I get started on? Sagas also accepted.

Pic related: they're the countries I give a shit about.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 01:42:41 2010 No.902587 bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 01:44:41 2010 No.902601 Knut Hamsun "Hunger"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:31:41 2010 No.902909 The baltic countries can be considered part of scandanavia

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:34:41 2010 No.902913 Selected Plays of Henrik Ibsen

Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:36:41 2010 No.902916

Start with Ibsen first of all. Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler, Brand, Wild Duck, Enemy of the People....pretty much all of Ibsen is worth reading.

Strindberg, you can be a bit more picky, you don't have to read the insane stuff. But Miss Julie, The Father, Dance of Death, A Dream Play (at least)

Hamsun, Hunger & Mysteries
Doktor Glas (can't remember author)

Njal's Saga
The Kalevala

Karin Boye's poems, and Kallocain

and I count Ingmar Bergman as genuine literature, too, so you should watch The Seventh Seal and Persona and Smiles of a Summer Night (at the very least)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:52:41 2010 No.902933 >>902909 lolno

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:57:41 2010 No.902939 Independent People Under The Glacier Egil's Saga Tainted Blood The Girl Who Played with Fire

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