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After 2,122 pages, I've leveled up my Norse Lore studies by consuming all four volumes of  The Pre-Christian Religions of the North ! Inarguably the new standard academic reference work on Norse Mythology , as of its publication in 2020 CE it establishes a current baseline on what we believe we know about the Norse Gods and references all the possible usable contexts from literature, archaeology, anthropology, ancient sources, folklore, and comparative mythology/beliefs/culture, taking a much needed interdisciplinary approach that tends to support each other, though contrary and conflicting elements and analyses are openly noted, which only adds to the amazing scope of this offering. Breaking the overview of this History and Structures set down into its respective volumes, we get: Volume I: Basic Premises and Consideration of Sources Volume II: Social, Geographical, and Historical Contexts, and Communications Between Worlds Volume III: Conceptual Frameworks: The Cosmos and Collect...

After 2,260 pages, I've unlocked the achievement of reading all five volumes of The Complete Sagas of Icelanders ! I cannot pass judgment or literary review on the Sagas as a whole. † There's just too much, and the corpus itself is too important historically to come at it as though one had just read a novel or non-fiction book. What I will do instead is (in very brief) tell you the main facets & merits of reading saga literature if you're so much of a hardcore NorsePlayer as to be compelled to read them all. Like Snorri Sturluson 's Heimskringla 's dominant historical pattern of acquisition, conflict, kingship, there's a general interpersonal narrative pattern that emerges with many of the sagas: offence, retribution, vengeance, resolution. Often feud & vendetta are the operative driving forces between these Settlement Era Icelanders' stories, which quickly amplify past whose sheep trespass to graze on another's land and escalate into the socie...