http://worldsofwordcraft.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/spudmonkeys-take-on-tolkiens-norse-influence/ Digital Narrative and Critical Thinking about Narrative and New Media Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:11:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://worldsofwordcraft.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/spudmonkeys-take-on-tolkiens-norse-influence/#comment-36 xaviermorgan Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:21:02 +0000 http://worldsofwordcraft.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/spudmonkeys-take-on-tolkiens-norse-influence/#comment-36 I spent some time in Denmark. Those crazy norseman in their long houses and dark days in the winter time came up with some amazing mythology. Imagine just comiing home from raiding the coasts of northern England and chatting with your friends around the long house fire ... Valhalla here we come. I spent some time in Denmark. Those crazy norseman in their long houses and dark days in the winter time came up with some amazing mythology. Imagine just comiing home from raiding the coasts of northern England and chatting with your friends around the long house fire … Valhalla here we come.

]]> http://worldsofwordcraft.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/spudmonkeys-take-on-tolkiens-norse-influence/#comment-25 Cheeryble Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:42:59 +0000 http://worldsofwordcraft.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/spudmonkeys-take-on-tolkiens-norse-influence/#comment-25 I love the <i>Elder Eddas</i> too. W. H. Auden has a great translation of some of these sagas. That may be what drew him to Tolkien, or maybe it was vice versa. I'm suspect Auden's biography could answer that question. I love the Elder Eddas too. W. H. Auden has a great translation of some of these sagas. That may be what drew him to Tolkien, or maybe it was vice versa. I’m suspect Auden’s biography could answer that question.

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