Like, what exactly? Their textual descriptions? Try Neil Price's The Viking Way, it's not super recent but it's a good start.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval
And maybe then check google scholar to see who's been citing him. Also maybe Leszek Gardela might have something on them.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Text is exactly what I'm looking for, yeah. Thanks! I will do that
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Yep, the Price is perfect, exactly what I needed. Thanks! Googling this is surprisingly hard because of the amount of pop stuff around valkyries/weird cross-hits like apparently NASA had a robot named valkyrie?
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval
LMAO. Naturally. It’s hard to research anything like that tbh, the Irish stuff is bad too because I get a bunch of neop*gan nonsense.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval
Like okay if you want to pray to Badb the war goddess then by all means for ffs I just want some scholarly discussion on this stuff. Unfortunately, looking at “pagan” Irish beliefs (whatever you want to call them) is rather passé in my field these days.
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Oh, that's too bad. I can definitely see the tendency to go "well, this field is such a clusterfuck that we're not even gonna touch it." Happens a lot with continental pre-Christian stuff too
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Yeah looking up any Woden stuff on the continent has been tough. There is a PhD thesis in German which seems good but I have trouble really understanding it because my German sucks, and a bunch of nonsense articles comparing Tacitus to Snørre and citing Nazis so
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Oh god that vein of scholarship
“if you squint this kind of looks the same so we can posit an UNCHANGING MILLENNIUM LONG GERMANIC ETHOS”1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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