Hello - from a returning player

Aktungbby · 08-23-13, 12:00 PM

Missed that you are perusing a "poetic edda"; A new book, just out, is of the greatest interest, "Song of the Viking". Details the socio-political impact of Icelandic sagas by Snorri Sturlsen from which Tolkien borrowed almost exclusively and completely to create his immortal trilogy. King, later St. OLaf, kept three EDDA poets at hand to record his 'heroic' passing, sword in hand. Unfortunately the shieldwall was thin that day, and Olaf and the poets died together----combat reporting, then as now, is a hazardous profession, no doubt they wassail in Valhalla!

08-23-13, 12:00 PM	#31
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,172 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Missed that you are perusing a "poetic edda"; A new book, just out, is of the greatest interest, "Song of the Viking". Details the socio-political impact of Icelandic sagas by Snorri Sturlsen from which Tolkien borrowed almost exclusively and completely to create his immortal trilogy. King, later St. OLaf, kept three EDDA poets at hand to record his 'heroic' passing, sword in hand. Unfortunately the shieldwall was thin that day, and Olaf and the poets died together----combat reporting, then as now, is a hazardous profession, no doubt they wassail in Valhalla! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!