Thursday, March 8, 2007

Looking for Thor in All the Wrong Places

Well, not entirely. In an effort to collect a wide variety of sources for Thor-related material, what I've found the most useful is the original (lengthy) texts that not only contain the stories of the Norse gods, but a host of footnotes that are endlessly fascinating. I have found a couple of the lengthier works online, The Eddas, both Poetic and Prose, and the old standard, Grimm's Teutonic Mythology (a must if you love footnotes like I do). Other materials have come from websites that explore Asatru, and its difference from Wicca, images of Mjolnir charms recovered from archeological digs, and incredibly detailed paintings of Norse and other myths by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, especially one of Yggdrasil. It's been a fruitful search, now, if I could only decide exactly what aspect to write my paper about!

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