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.

[gnowun.livejournal.com]

oh my gods... SHINEY!!

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.

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!

I just want to say...

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

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

[wodandis.livejournal.com]

Oh my.

*drool*

I vote for the books, without a doubt.

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

OoooOOooooohhh.

Book lust.

[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.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

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

[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...