[Moo] research help

[Richard Wymarc]

You might want to have a look at some of the sagas. Less on the mythology 
end, but there are some very nice stories of family feuds, divorce 
proceedings, legal battles, and such in those. I can personally recommend 
both Njal's Saga, and Egil's saga as a good place to start.

The death of Gunnar in Njal's Saga and the story of Egil ransoming his head 
with a poem in Egil's Saga are worth the time to dig out.

 Richard

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From: "Smith CTR Jeffrey C" <jeffrey.c.smith.ctr at usmc.mil>
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Subject: Re: [Moo] research help

> Hi there,
>
> I suggest hitting Project Gutenberg.
>
> Go here http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page and type "norse" in the 
> title word block.  I just did it and got a ton of free book links.
>
> Barcsi Janos
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:moo-bounces at lists.stierbach.org] On Behalf Of Brian Bertrand
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 14:37
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> Subject: Re: [Moo] research help
>
> I recommend the Uncle Einar series of books.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Crystal Thurber <dancing_pantz at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>
>
> Greetings Populace of the Barony,
>
> I am interested in increasing my story repertoire, this time with Norse 
> mythology particularly.  The trouble is, I don't really know where to 
> start.  I have been stalking Amazon.com for ideas, and so far I have come 
> up with the Poetic and Prose Eddas, the Saga of the Volsungs, and of 
> course Beowulf.  Are any of these better to start with than others?  Or 
> does someone have an alternate suggestion for where I can go to increase 
> my story knowledge?
>
> Jozsa
> MKA Crystal
>
>
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