it's sad so little survives of tribal germanic culture, since spread of writing necessarily came in hand with latin and christianization
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in particular in this work there are some Very Suspicious similarities, notably siegfried being fully protected by immersion except one fatal weak spot...
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...a la achilles, and the whole theme of brunhild-as-amazon holding deadly competition for her hand a la atalanta, to classical myth
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and it makes me wonder how much is shared prehistorical PIE storyform, or transmission from classical culture, or just obvious enough ideas to emerge independently
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i thought this tweet was orphaned
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I will never number my tweets, it implies weakness of spirit
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