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Are there infographics on Viking literature? Or norse literature if they didnt make any?

Primary sources preferred please.

>> No.12172092

I have a BA in Scandinavian Literature. AMA.

Also: "Viking" literature isn't a thing. The viking age was from 793-1066 at which point Scandinavians didn't really write.

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>>12171910
The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories

>> No.12172348

>>12172092
Did they have any great epics I can read? Or cool mythology texts? Or someone close culturally in that region at least?

Like was there an iliad or gilgamesh of that region? If not, where the heck did we learn about the loki and Odin and Valhalla myths, etc?

>> No.12172357

>>12171910
vikings were subhumans and only christianization allowed the nordic man to elevate himself to a superior being.

>> No.12172462

>>12172357
Why cant I learn about them? I dont plan on converting to Valhallaism anytime soon, you dont have to worry.

>> No.12172482

>>12172348
There's Beo wolf

>> No.12172682

>>12172482
Best translation?

>> No.12172711

>>12172462
as far as I know the poetic Edda is the only one written by a true believer while the religions were still alive
Ibsen has some plays about Vikings too
And there's Vargs books of course

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Closest I have seen

>> No.12174128

>>12172682
The one with kemp Malone

>> No.12174851

Vikings were mostly oral literature

>> No.12174865

>>12172357
Christianity has given nothing to the world but passivity, apathy, and weakness. The problems of decadence and entitlement in the modern world are a direct result of Christianity, not the opposite. Stop fetishizing Christianity.

>> No.12175504

>>12171910
Njal's Saga is one of the greatest books I've ever read - a must-read by anyone interested in world literature. I recommend the Magnus Magnusson translation.

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>>12172357
Yeah, because god knows the christians never did anything that would be considered uncivilized....