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There is already a massive question thread you know

Also your music taste is shit

>>4657
T-thanks you too

>>4666
ok

>>4655
Try to read as much as you can from the authentic sagas and texts. We have no central holy text like faggot tier religions but we do have some recorded sagas. The Poetic Edda is probably the most complete and a good place to start. The Prose Edda is a revised version by some monk, it's an easier read but not as reliable, historians think the monk may have been pulling stuff out of his ass.

>>4657
I for one like them. Not just because of muh asatru lyrics either, their songs are composed well and I like his voice. Underwhelmed by the latest album though.

But he's right, you probably should have been in the question thread

does anyone know of any gaelic texts which are akin to the icelandic eddas? i cant seem to find anything like it.

>>4678
>Freya is literally raped by dwarves
why did that happen and does it happen in the Eddas?

>>4708
Freya was looking for three giantesses because she literally was jealous of Thor and the other gods from getting gifts from the dwarves (Odin got Gungnir and Draupnir, Thor got Mjolinr, etc). So she visited the dwarves to see if they knew where the three giantesses' lived. They said would tell her if she stayed with them til the first crowing of the cock happened. Then they held her down and took turns "kissing" her and everytime she protested they assaulted her. And no it was not in the Eddas the author gathered these stories from other germanic sources like The Brother's Grimm and Wagner's Ring Cycle as well as the Eddas.

>>4709
kind of a comic story ah ah

>>4659
its funny when /sp/ does it, but not you you faggot

and yes i realize to irony in a board about vikings banning raiding

>>4655
Theres tons of online resources and books, the best things I would recommend are HRR Davidsons "Gods and Myths of Northern Europe".

Theres also plenty of childrens books that give a good, if cliffnoted and sometime modified version of the mythical cycles.

The best primary sources are the Eddas. I would begin with the Prose as its easier to read and shorter and then go into the Poetic. Poetic however is very long and cryptic since most of it is written in old Germanic poetry, which is difficult to decipher even for contemporaries. But it is the most direct source on the myths and contains much more spiritual wisdom and doctrine than the Prose, which was written by a Christian. If anything just read the Havamal.

>>4707
I dont think there really is, im not a scholar on celtic myth so I wouldnt know (my primary interest is Germanic). I think the most direct source for gaelic myth is from an Irish text, which is a little unreliable because it was written by monks and the gods are humanized as mortals. dont know much beyond that though.

>>4708
>>4709

I remember it has to do something with freyjas necklace, but i think the dwarf rape thing is only alluded to in the myths if its even in there at all. I could be wrong though. The version i remember is that freya willingly has sex with the dwarves in order to acquire the necklace, which was forged by them with magic power.

>>4730
In the version I am reading they just reveal to her after raping her the location of three giantesses who were renown for making things out of gold and these three give her the necklace called "Brísingamen"