2/3 into nibelungenlied and now kinda want to read about comparative mythology
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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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use of writing for recordkeeping, whatever, you know what I mean
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there was never a runic manuscript culture
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fair
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have you already gone through the classics (ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania_(book) …)
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