it was 1984. i cried because of the unsettling similarities with today's world

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Ok I’ll look more into it then, thank you!

I don’t have many questions but my family comes from Norway and Finland, so my great grandma used to tell me Norse tales when I was little. Now that I’m older I’m curious about what they believed at the time and would like to read more stories that I never heard. One of my favorites that I can recall was her telling me about Tyr being left handed (I’m left handed), it made me feel cool 😂

I enjoyed it, and it wasn't an original story with a Norse setting. It was more like a simplified novel that showcases events from the mythology in an abridged, broad format.

There are definitely more detailed versions of the Saga's out there but it was pretty faithful as a beginner's introduction to them imo.

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It's the internet, so people will argue about everything.

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For books I want to remember well, I always take notes the next day about the section I read the previous day. This increases my retention by like 1000%.

I think doing the note-taking on different days is actually important for retention purposes.

I saw it but I presumed it was more of a modern retelling than holding true to the source material given his other books, would you say it’s worth the read?

Americans need to get interested in Byzantine history. There's a thousand years of intrafamilial infighting to learn about there, and they go one better over modern royals because they usually end with somebody's eyes getting gouged out or their balls cut off or something.

You would probably like a book called Tau Zero.

It's a pet topic, happy to answer any questions you might have 🙂

Thank you!

I’d like to read both eventually, but the real thing to begin with. Thank you so much!

The poetic Edda and the prose Edda are good starting points, Gesta Danorum also relevant, and you can follow it up with some of the sagas, there's a compilation called Sagas of the Icelanders that is good

Well it’s mythology, you can still have a collection of fables and tales that are accurate to the original story. I’m looking for something more along the lines of the Iliad instead of Percy Jackson. No need to be pressed, my dude

Did you check Neil Gaiman's edition from a few years ago?

Do you want to read the real thing or something like a history of Norse mythology?

Search the Norse Sagas and you’ll see a lot of penguin classic editions of the most well known sagas

The logical reason is that's how the author wrote it. That author has their own views, beliefs, ideas and imagination.

It's only logical that they write what they want to write.

Toxic fandom is awful. Gatekeeping fandoms too.

Not specifically book related, but an artist I follow on IG posted something a year or two about Star Wars and the new Obi-Wan show. I forget the exact question, but it was along the lines of “who’s excited about more Skywalker stuff?” I said not me. For a literal universe, why is everything centered around this one family.

I’ve never reported so many accounts before. I got some vicious DMs about my response.

I know Star Wars fans can be pretty bad, but JFC.

Accurate mythology? Shits fake stories.

It's virtual grief. Like any other grief it takes time. Just let it exist without fighting it. You will be fine.

"Mommy, why is Grandma always crying?"

I've got Eclipse and Breaking Dawn (books 3 and 4 in the Twilight series) among my lowest rated books. Also Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner.