No.19331
which sagas to start with?
im particularly interested in ones that describe best the machinations of the gods like in the Illiad
also is the elder edda a suitable account of the volsung saga or should i read another version? should i read morris' rendition?
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No.19332
>>19331
RigsThula while a difficult read is the most important as Heimdall states in it, the positions where everyone should be.
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No.19333
>>19332
i've read the elder and poetic edda, does that contain enough of the important sagas? are they just summarised there?
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No.19334
>>19333
So you've read Codex Wormianus, Codex Trajectinus or Codex Regius? "Poetic Edda" is a modern and sort of ambiguous name.
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No.19335
>>19333
Here's a good website showing you truth regarding the way Volsupa is put together by modern scholars.
http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/codexregiusvoluspa.html
Instead of you reading it in the form it has come to us.
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