I want to get into Germanic legends and mythology like the ones that inspired Wagner. Is there any chart or book you'd recommend?
>>25308719The two Eddas, the sagas, the Nibelungenlied, that's about it.
>>25308721Thanks anon, could you elaborate on "the sagas"? I'm only aware of Volsunga
>>25308719Read Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie if you wanna enter a rabbit hole.
>>25308814Yeah, they're all that icelandic shit like Njal's Saga or Egil's Saga.
Primary mythology:Poetic EddaProse EddaNorse sagas. The most important are Egil's Saga, the Saga of Erik the Red, the Volsung Saga, Saga of Hervor & Heidrek, Njal's Saga, Saga of Hrolf Kraki, and the Saga of Gunnlaug Wormtongue. There's a nice 5 volume box set of the complete sagas. BeowulfOld English Poems. Craig Williamson has done a volume with all of these.German epic poetry. Nibelungenlied, Lay of Hildebrand etc., basically the stuff in this volume https://archive.org/details/germanepicpoetry0000unse/page/n5/mode/2upVarious charms most especially the Merseburg charms.Various fairy tales and other bits of folklore. The Brothers Grimm are the most important, but folktales from Scandinavia, England, The Low Countries, and the Dolomites are all important too. Primary historical texts with useful information:GermaniaHeimskringlaGesta DanorumGeticaHistory of the LombardsHistory of the English peopleModern scholar Raoul McLaughlin has compiled all references to Ancient Germanic people in the Greek and Roman sourcesUseful secondary scholars:Ronald HuttonHR Ellis DavidsonClaude LecouteuxRichard NorthDonald WardBrian MurdochDH GreenJames C RussellAndreas E ZaunterPaul C BauschatzWilliam P ReavesPhilip A ShawHope that helps anont. guy who reads this stuff a lot
>>25309827Thanks anon, this is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for
>>25308719A well-known warrior would present himself at the general assembly and offer to lead the planned expedition. Sometimes, especially in cases of aggression, he would even suggest the initial idea. In other circumstances, he would simply submit a plan of his own, tailored to the specific situation. This candidate for command took care to support his claims with his past exploits and to emphasize his proven skill; but above all, the most effective means of persuasion he could employ, and which secured his preference over his rivals, was the offer and guarantee to all those who would come to fight under his command of individual advantages worthy of tempting their courage and ambition. This created a debate and a bidding war among the candidates and the warriors. It was only through conviction or seduction that they could be led to engage with the entrepreneur of exploits, glory and plunder.How low we have fallen. Gobineau rightly placed the last foyer of Germanic culture in the Wild West of America, one only needs to watch the Western classics in order to become convinced of this.
