Member: eyja

Hello Eyja

It's only since several weeks that I've started checking out background info about Norse mythology (pushed in a way by several Metal bands that have songs about this - they triggered my curiosity and also because at school this kind of history was never taught, or only a very small bit of it), with my first purchase being H.R. Ellis Davidson's "Gods and Myths of Northern Europe", which is indeed a very interesting book. Yesterday two more books arrived: "Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe" (also by Davidson) and "The Prose Edda" by Snorri Sturluson. Once I get through these three and I want to read more, at least I know where I have to look for inspiration (i.e. your collection). ;-)

Kind regards
Tim

posted by TechThing at 4:34 am (EST) on Apr 29, 2009

"My Hatto book was introduced to me by Kaaren Grimstad and Ray Wakefield in a joint seminar on the Volsunga Saga. Great class, even if it felt beyond me at the time. (A Graduate level class and here I was this little undergraduate. But Kaaren invited me, and I don't regret it.)"

Ray was the one I read all those papers for 8-) He and Kaaren are on my short list of great teachers I've learned from. An undergraduate friend of mine was in some of the Old Norse courses I was taking as part of my Germanic Philology M.A. The last year I was there, she began work on her own Germanic Philology M.A.

posted by erilarlo at 6:59 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2008

It's Hatto! Someone somewhere was talking about Nibelungenlied translations and I said there was one used in a Medieval Lit in Translation course at U Minn taught by my NL(original) prof that I TA'd for(meaning I got to grade the papers) decades ago, but I couldn't remember for sure whose it was. We DO share a book or two, don't we?

Wilson was my favorite library for three years; I still miss it after 30.

posted by erilarlo at 2:15 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2008

This is probably a stupid question, but how did you get librarything to list Tolkien as a favorite? It doesn't seem to want to let me list a dead author.

posted by erilarlo at 11:14 am (EST) on Sep 12, 2008

Hi Eyja,

I just joined library things and started cataloging and thought, "huh, who else has Bower's Synopsis of Old Icelandic Morphology?" Answer, clearly someone else who's a fan of Iceland and has had classes with Kaaren! Hope you're doing well.

posted by jeffbhartman at 9:30 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2008