I've come across extremely weird stuff while reading the Sagas. One of the most perplexing of these is a name that pops up in Sturlunga Saga.

> Ólafur Höskuldarson chaim

Why is he called chaim? No one knows.

For modern eyes it looks Hebrew but was that the intent?

It is almost certain that this was a real person. Unlike the Sagas which deal with the Settlement of Iceland, Sturlunga is near contemporary.

#IcelandicSagas #Sagas #Hebrew #Icelandic

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While it was wonderful to handle letters by #JRRTolkien, they do not give much insight into his #fantasy writing. In fact the subject of most of the letters is Tolkien the status of #Icelandic or #OldNorse literature, especially the #Sagas at #Oxford.

I have attached a fraction which gives an idea about the nature of these letters.

#Tolkien

Still doing Völsunga Saga.

There is a line that suddenly mentions a daughter that Brynhildur (the shield-maiden) and Sigurður (the dragon slayer) had together. It seems really out of place and might have been added by a later scribe. The weird thing is that it makes Sigurður look like a massive liar.

I know WHY it was put in there. This daughter needs to exist because Ragnar Loðbrók marries her in another Saga.

#Sagas #Legends

Völsunga Saga.

Guðrún has a dream that she asks Brynhildur to interpret. The latter's interpretation is a precise summary of the next part of the story.

They go on and keep getting surprised when those exact things actually happen.

#Legends #Sagas

I'm looking for material on how to deal with the evolution of long-running #processes (#sagas). For example, assume that a process had a chain of E1 -> C1 -> E2 -> C2 -> E3, but now evolves to E1 -> C1 -> E2.1 & E2.2 -> C2 -> E3. How to deal with all active process instances?

What I have recently read (1/3)

Since I have more characters here, I thought I would move something I do on Facebook here. I read a lot. The subject matter is all over the board, and sometimes I wonder if I have a problem, LOL. That is a way to introduce what I have read over the past two weeks. Warning it is out there.

https://www.academia.edu/28147618/On_the_Etymology_of_Compounded_Old_Icelandic_%C3%93%C3%B0inn_Names_with_the_Second_Component_fo%C3%B0r?source=swp_share

https://www.academia.edu/2369879/Early_Christianity_on_the_Way_from_the_Varangians_to_the_Greeks_ed_Ildar_Garipzanov_and_Oleksiy_Tolochko_Kiev_2011_?source=swp_share

https://www.academia.edu/41190584/Patterns_of_Nationalist_Discourse_in_the_Early_Reception_of_the_Icelandic_Sagas_in_Britain?source=swp_share

#reading #theology #language #history #sagas

While writing a book, I have been taking inspiration from the long traditional histories and mythologies of the #Scandinavian cultures and Northern #European cultures.

I found some translations of the Poetic/Elder Edda and a few of the #Sagas on Archive.org and on Gutenberg.org, but... They needed improvement so that they were readable. They are #PublicDomain works, so I downloaded them and set to editing.

While editing the Edda, I realized that the #translation I had was - 1/2