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

[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