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Fuck the Greeks, give me some Norse
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Where should I star with the Norse myth and all that?
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Poetic Edda
Prose Edda
Saga of the Volsungs
Grettir's Saga
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Unrelated but what do the colours on that chart represent?
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>>7893830
I've also wondered this
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>>7893830
>>7893859
from what I can tell
orange is supplementary material
green is history
blue is philosophy
yellow is mythology
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What is Romecore?
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Anyone got The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles and Hesiod and Theognis?
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Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia by E.O.G. Turville-Petrea

and

The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland

These are the beginner set
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>>7894105
Crossley-Holland is for plebs.

Try "Norse Mythology" by John Lindow.
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>>7893813
The first book there, "mythology" has a bit of it actually. I think it's just the last 2 chapters though.
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>>7894396

>Kalevala
>viking

Beowulf is a stretch, but that is just flat out wrong.
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Well good luck, OP. I'm still trying to get through Egil's Saga. And there's dozens more...
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