I've chosen to read this gem before I fully get into the sagas. it is extremely cozy
>>24797443I read The Eagle of the Ninth in school and enjoyed it. I'd trust her to do Arthurian legend justice.
>>24797443>get into modern fantasy about a classical mythos before getting into a period work on a different classical mythosI could understand if the modern thing you started with was about the mythos you wanted to get into (like some modern telling of the poetic eddas before getting into volsunga saga), or read a different mythos in period to get a comparitive sense with another mythos (like reading a 12th century grail cycle in translation like Yvain, and comparing it to volsunga saga), but this seems two steps removed for one to be particularly relevant for the other. Outside of just the broad sense of mythic dark age europe.
>>24797443I'd sut her cliff if you know what I mean
>>24798166I'm just putting the norse stuff off for the winter. I'll probably read Padraic Colum's Children of Odin as a warm up after I get through Rosemary's Arthur Trilogy
>>24798612Just me personally, But I like to read at least one in period thing within a mythos before going to later retellings of it, just so I can get a sense of whether or not that more contemporary retelling is bullshitting or not.
>>24798623I think retellings adding new material isn't necessarily bad as long as it doesn't disrupt the original aesthetics or message. I just read retelling first to ease myself into the material.
>>24798643>I think retellings adding new material isn't necessarily bad as long as it doesn't disrupt the original aesthetics or messageYah, thats why I said I prefer to read period stuff first, not because modern stuff is bad, just so I can get a sense of if modern stuff actually takes from one avenue or another of the original work rather than pasting irrelevant stuff on top of a meaningless aesthetic.For example, Im a big fan of Ivanhoe even though it was made in the 1800s, because I can tell the author actually consulted more original works in some of the themes and contents, even if there was also noticeably modern (modern to 1800-whatever that is) stuff in it as well, such as how it dealt with nationality. I would NOT say ivanhoe is an authenticly medieval tale, but it does have aspects of authentic chivalric influence in it alongside more contemporary element. Im just glad I could see where one begins and another ends.
>>24798664> Im just glad I could see where one begins and another ends.That's pretty much my approach as well, Sorry if I misread you brotha.
>>24798708np. here are some hundred year war minis I painted. they are (mostly) period accurate to Agincourt. I am pretty proud of them (though you cant see the men at arms well in the background)
>>24798732That's actually really cool, I wish I can get into something like that when I get older(I'm in my early 20s). Here is my stack of sagas and norse literature that I posted here a week or two back.
>>24798763noice. a personal favorite saga of mine that has fallen out of general favor but was once one of the big names, and I think is excellent, is Frithiof's saga. It has one of the most beautyful depictions of the death of baldr. I also think it very neatly endcaps norse sagas as one of the latter ones as volsunga does start it as one of the earlier ones, since it show noticable Christian elements and is a very good transitional work between the grimness of the earlier sagas and the redemptive element of early chivalric tales.
