[Moo] research help

[J. Hughes]

I have found the Vinland Sagas, the Jomviking Saga, and Egil's Saga to be particularly good for stories. As an alternative to the Wagner god ridden ring cycle I would suggest the story as told in the 12th century German. It is more human and a very good source of spin off stories.

Charles O'Connor




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From: Richard Wymarc <rwymarc at gmail.com>
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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>
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:44 PM
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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
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> From: moo-bounces at lists.stierbach.org [mailto:moo-bounces at lists.stierbach.org] On Behalf Of Brian Bertrand
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 14:37
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> I recommend the Uncle Einar series of books.
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> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Crystal Thurber <dancing_pantz at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Greetings Populace of the Barony,
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> 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?
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> Jozsa
> MKA Crystal
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