Ah… about that I know zero!
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Yes… that’s the fascination of the North-Germanic (Icelandic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon) stuff as well. That it’s incredibly alien, but also strangely familiar. Tolkien’s fascination with that queer mixture led to the LotR, apparently
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The earliest Anglo-Saxon material comes from just the time of the switch over from pagan values to Christianity, and it expresses the confusion that engendered.
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_The Battle of Maldon_ describes the heroic confrontation of a semi-Christianized English Earl vs. a pagan Viking invasion force.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/814314255050686464 …
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Maybe that will inspire me to explain _The Battle of Maldon_ as a positive model for near-future politics…
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