Valkyries
Gone Medieval
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The Valkyries - The Most Serious Aspect of Them
There was a text written in the 13th century called the adda. It's a sort of textbook in Norse mythology for aspiring poets and it was probably written by Snotis Fertilison who was this Icelandic politician antiquarian etc. He kind of was gathering together all of these different sources that he had collected you know I guess in some way or another but then he leaves things out, which makes everything very bloodless. But when you actually start to read the poems about them one of my favorite poems is the love affair between the human warrior and the Valkyries. She stays with him a night in his burial mound first and his corpse is bloody and got all these wounds all
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