Goldurnit!

[lwood]

And now, for the benefit of all of you who read this hoping I'll say something heathen^*, this interlude:

I don't have enough sagas!

HOW am I supposed to write a scholarly, quote-filled, essay on a particularly toothsome subject if I don't have enough sagas!?!?!?

There is, of course, an answer...



http://notendur.centrum.is/~vinland/pontun/vara.html

See that? That's all of 'em.

...now I just need the $350 to get it here from Iceland, because the one-volume hardcover I've got it's...it's...

It's the Greatest Hits, when DAMMIT I NEED THE BOXED SET!

Sagas or a new Palm Pilot. Sagas or a new Palm Pilot...

-- Lorrie

^* - Those of you who, instead, drop by occasionally to see if I say something so desperately unheathen that I should be bogged immediately can piss off.

Comments

[dr-beowulf.livejournal.com]

The University of Central Arkansas's library, believe it or not, has the full five-volume set. The bookplate indicates that the Icelandic Embassy donated a whole bunch of sets to university and college libraries all over the USA. So if you can't yet acquire your own set, check any of your local academic libraries; there's a pretty good chance that they'll have it, even if they're not otherwise distinguished in the field.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I suspect there's one at UC Berkeley, and I know a couple ways into their libraries.

Still, this is something the Extended Hrafnar Community ought to have.

DLP: "You know, I'm still kicking myself over not having picked those up while in Iceland."

lwood: *incoherent muttering*

DLP: "And they were offering it at an introductory price of only $200, too..."

lwood: "Dammit, woman! Kick yourself harder!"

DLP: "Kick! Kick! Kick! Well, maybe the next time some royalties come in, we can go halvsies?"

lwood: "Mmmaybe."

-- Lorrie

[gnowun.livejournal.com]

oh my gods... SHINEY!!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! Shiny!

-- Lorrie

If you can only afford one...

[anthony-arndt.livejournal.com]

...Sagas. After all, if you buy them now and then save up for a PalmPilot, it'll be cheaper. On the other hand, I don't think the price on the Sagas is coming down any time soon.

Re: If you can only afford one...

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Palm prices tend to come down in early October, prelude to the new model release (mid-October) and the holiday season all at once.

I had already been waiting for a new Palm a month or few when October rolled around, even though rumors pointed toward a new Treo (yeck!), which proved to be true (ptui!). However, if I went to AMazon for my purchases, it's only $250 instead of the $300 at my local large chain electronics store.

So... I dunno. Will have to discuss with countgeiger.

-- Lorrie

Wow!

[scrwtape.livejournal.com]

You know this and Grim's Teutonic Mythology and you'd pretty well hit a goodly portion of the primary sources of heathen lore in a boxed set!

Re: Wow!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Well, right, but then one must naturally have the whole flock of Poetic Edda translations, which may wind up outmassing the others in time. ;)

-- Lorrie

Re: Wow!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Oh--and--AND!

You wouldn't be complete without printouts of, say, a few key issues of:

http://www.jstor.org/browse#Folklore

-- Lorrie

I just want to say...

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

... that your raven icon is very cute. Cute cute cute.

Re: I just want to say...

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you. 8-)

-- Lorrie

Re: I just want to say...

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

I just want to scritch him (or her) between the eyes.

Of course, I'd likely lose my finger, or at least a hunk of it. Still cute.

*looks at shirt and wonders if Odin gets tired of raven poop on his shoulders*

Re: I just want to say...

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Of course, I'd likely lose my finger, or at least a hunk of it. Still cute.

Well, sure. He's a meat-eater, and you just dangled some in front of him. That was a pic of a wild raven, though--one that was hand-raised would probably just cut you instead of making off with some of your tasty meat. ;)

*looks at shirt and wonders if Odin gets tired of raven poop on his shoulders*

For one, one presumes that those ravens only let fly on his shoulders to make a particularly pungent point, not as a usual matter of course.

For two, well, he Has People for That. It's good to be the king. ;)

-- Lorrie

Re: I just want to say...

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

Never doubt that ordinary chickens can let fly in order to Make a Point. *g* I know my own personal Huginn and Muninn do (I always think of them that way when I've got one on each shoulder and a crest sticking in each ear--or a beak).

Re: I just want to say...

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly!

-- Lorrie

[wodandis.livejournal.com]

Oh my.

*drool*

I vote for the books, without a doubt.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Obviously, the real win would be all the sagas ON the Palm Pilot!

*grin*

We'll have to check the finances and see.

-- Lorrie

[wodandis.livejournal.com]

On a different topic, if you get a chance, could you ask Diana whether she got my reply to her email? She was asking for permission to use my Wild Hunt poem in the winter Idunna, and I said yes. I'm worried about whether she got my reply because this was her second request, so she may not have gotten my reply the first time she asked. (I also thanked her for the copy of her new book she sent me and babbled a little about other stuff, but mostly I just want to make sure she knows she has permission to use the poem.)

[wodandis.livejournal.com]

Er, nevermind, I just heard back from her. :)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Oh, good--I was going to call her after lunch, but now I don't have to.

I got to bounce around 'cos, LOOK! I'm in the dedication! But you! You got a citation! Squee! Love for everyone!

-- Lorrie

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

OoooOOooooohhh.

Book lust.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Ayup. ;)

-- Lorrie

[murstein.livejournal.com]

At least you know what you want exists and what its name is. I'm still trying to determine if any primary sources, other than self-congratulatory Franks, exist for the period when Mangy Charlie assimilated the Saxons.

I suppose I wouldn't have this problem, if the college I'm attending taught anything more than the fast-forward summary known as Western Civ I.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Heh. Being a pan-Germanic kindred with Icelandic focus means, well, it means having lots of stuff to peck at and fly off with.

However, the reason I OMGNEEDNOW! the boxed set up there is for an article I'm writing for Idunna. Saint Hilda, bless her heart, says that a thing in Gretti's Saga is typical of something that happens in four or five other sagas, which is great except Gretti's isn't in the Greatest Hits volume, though available in a public domain trainslation online, and the others aren't available online either and may be available in English nowhere else besides the Boxed Set.

-- Lorrie

[murstein.livejournal.com]

On that scale, my desire is less immediate, and possibly more self-indulgent. I have the barest outlines of a novel in my head (if I ever move from "researching" to "writing," it'll be at least the sixth I've started). Having both laughed at poor research, and been tempted to throw poorly-researched novels across the room, I want to reach the point where I can see life (or at least the exciting bits that are worthy of writing) through the eyes of my Saxon viewpoint characters.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Should be interesting...good luck!

-- Lorrie

[lysana.livejournal.com]

Sagas. You can get a reconditioned Palm Pilot, but just try finding those suckers used.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

We'll just have to see what the finances are like at the end of the week. 8-)

-- Lorrie

[mordantcarnival.livejournal.com]

*presses nose up against screen and dribbles slightly*

Mark you, given the state of my reading list $350 boxed-sets are really going to have to wait...