Audible subscribers tell me that the 'Great Courses' class is still available for free to Plus subscribers, but won't be after May 1st. Here's a link if you're on Audible and want to check it out but haven't already: www.audible.com/pd/Norse-Mythology-Audiobook/B09M95TB2R Audiobooks of the Poetic Edda and the Saga of the Volsungs (read by me) are also available on Audible.
I have read Heimskringle in Johannes V. Jensen and Hans Kyrre's translation. My favorite quote: He was hot of temper and a great killer, but otherwise a good priest. (From Olaf Trygvason's saga)
I just won a copy of this book in a raffle, an 1899 translation into Norwegian. My sister in law's Mom is from Norway and she says she can barely read it. I am looking forward to *your* translation of it should it eventually come. Thanks Dr. Crawford!
Tolkien and CS Lewis, at Oxford organized a club for fantasy writers, the Inklings. I thought it was just writers use ink. Only now do I see it's a pun on Ynglings
I was about to place an order with Grimfrost, remembered just in time and came to your page to do this here so you get credit. I would not have found them if not for your channel. Wish you the best Dr. Crawford. You have taught me so much and I’ve never met you.
Hey Jackson, are you unwell? I thought you sounded a bit ill in your last vid (or the last one I saw), where you were in Utah? Look after yourself - hope you’re better soon. Really enjoyed this one - stuff about the folklore and storytelling intentions are always of great interest to me. I think I once looked up a paper on the Viking page - must go and have another look. Thanks a lot for another great video ❤️
Dr. Crawford can you recommend some literature in English about the sources about Yng? Was he a god? A hero? What are the older and the newer theories about this charachter?
Hi. I have a few American friends who want to read Old Norse literature. I've pointed them towards your translations of The Poetic Edda and Völsunga Saga/Ragnars Saga Loðbrókar, because...you know your stuff. I'd like them to read Njáls Saga and Egils Saga, too. Can you recommend any good translations to English?
I have heimskringla in old icelandic , how can I read it with the right pronounciation ? Is there any app like google translate that can help you with the pronounciation of old icelandic or old norse ?
I have an issue you may be able to resolve for me. I've been researching the Indo-European migration. The center of the site of migration seems to line up with Anatolian region and Mt Ararat. Which coincidental coincides with the landing site of Noah's ark. Which would give a historicity to Noah's flood myth. I'd love to hear your views on this
I can see why medieval Christian scholars would want to portray the Norse gods as mythologized heroes, but what's with this Trojan obssession? Gregory of Tours also claimed that Franks descended from Trojans five centuries before Snorri.
They are 2 very contradictory ideas which those christian scholars are trying to figure out. How could they put together their local and traditional believes and a wide spread universal faith which also have her own traditions? It's something you can observe in many cultures aswell, where the local elite is getting influenced by christianism or islam such as the kings of Mali or even the Franks where the king is a deity capable of doing miracles. Those are some hints of what was happening in their minds, they tried to link the chrisitian/roman "universal" culture with their own local culture. For Denmark it was also the case with Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. This is why it's not such a wonder to see them trying to connect to the roman tradition. My last example would be the genesis and the Nestor chronicles which talks about the old russian history, according to Nestor all the slavs are descedent of Noah. Realy, it was really common for christians to try linking their local culture in the biblical mythology.
The Romans traditionally considered themselves, as evidenced by the Aeniad, to be descendents of Aeneas, a Trojan character of the Illiad who was a son of Aphrodite and who ended up leading the survivors of the Fall of Troy to the Italian peninsula. Connecting themselves to the Trojans and Aeneas specifically was peoples' ways of claiming a Roman heritage, essentially.
