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Anyone got this? It's #1 on Amazon currently, and I've always loved a bit of folklore 'n' fable. Any good?

>> No.9083426

>>9083410
Read the eddas not this shit

>> No.9083434
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>>9083426
this and then the Sagas everything else is just a meme

>> No.9083446

I assume it's a Gaiman-y, Norse-flavored version of Edith Hamilton's Mythology?

>> No.9083450

>reading a hack version instead of Crossley-Holland
Why?

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>>9083410
i am the stone that the builder refused

>> No.9083567

>>9083410
i've got a signed copy
i haven't read it yet
sorry

>> No.9084229

>>9083434
That shit is too expensive. Cant find a paperback version.

>> No.9084253

>>9084229
luckily these are 800 years old and therefore don't have any copyright
you can find them all for free here: http://sagadb.org/ most of them in English

>> No.9084266

>>9084253
But I want it on my shelf to look cool.

>> No.9084288

>>9084266
I didn't say that.

>> No.9084291

>>9084288
This isn't me.

>> No.9084294

>>9084266
Time to hang yourself

>> No.9084309

>>9084294
>reading from a screen
>owning a mem-e-book reader
no u

>> No.9084910

>>9083410

>Roberto Calasso will never do for Norse mythology what he did for Greek and Indian myths

Why live?

>> No.9084919

>>9083410
Just learn Old Norse and read the Eddas

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>>9083410
.epub and other formats easily found on the interwebz--go git ursef a copy boy.

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9085254

Does anyone know if pic related is any good?

>> No.9085334

>>9085254

I read it and enjoyed it a great deal. It's an anthology, but it doesn't contain all the sagas.

>> No.9085368

>>9085254
can't vouch for the translation but as I recall it has some strange inclusions and exclusions
there was at least one of the most famous sags it didn't include and a few of the whatever sagas that are included for seemingly no reason

it's probably a decent enough starting point though including both Njáls Saga and Egils Saga which are the two longest and best ones

>> No.9085446

HENRY ADAMS BELLOWS

Neil Gaima is a FAGGOT

>> No.9085493

>>9083410
>Neil Gayman
Make sure you get ready player one too

>> No.9085531

>>9085493
that's written by ernest cline though. whats wrong with neil gaiman? i havent read any of his work, genuinely wondering.

>> No.9085577

>>9085531
Coraline is an impeccable "todorovian" fantasy novel
Nevertheless he is one of the authors limited by audience and current market

>> No.9085591

>>9085577
What means todorovian?

>>9085531
I haven't read any of his books but he's one of those nerd losers who nerds like. Those people who can't interpret subtlety and require everything draped in a vaneer of epicness but totally lacking in any substance. Maybe Gaiman's not like that, I dunno. But thems the folks what read him.

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>>9085591
>i havent read any of his books but...

>> No.9086041

>>9085591
Tzvetan Todorov divided fantastique into 3 categories:
- weird (étrange) - the ending can be explained scientifically (ritchie's sherlock Holmes)
- merveilleux (marvelous) -it is normal to us that paranormal things occur (harri potta )
- fantastique - ending nad whole paranormality cannot be explained. It can be real, a dream, hallucination etc