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Learning is Fundamental!
Jun. 1st, 2019 09:46 amFor the last few months I've been enjoying watching Dr. Jackson Crawford's Old Norse channel on YouTube. Formerly a professor in the California Uni system, he is presently returned to his home in Colorado teaching at U of Co Boulder.
I esp like that he uses the reconstructed Old Norse of the period the Eddas were written down, though it at 1st was jarring since I'd learned my ON using Modern Icelandic pronunciation.
He's a stickler for the most accurate translation as possible(even having his own published) and goes back to the Codex Regius NOT transcribed copies that are posted on some ON websites. I personally thought ALL the ON Eddic poems had been translated for the original CR. You learn something new every day. Which is a great thing IMO!
He isn't a co-religionist but has stated that he can't find a better guide to life than the Havamal; which he's got a stand alone book on coming out this Fall with the CR on one page and his translation on the other AND why he translates something so if it contradicts other scholars. Needless to say, that's on my Yule list;>!
In my personal life, his work has oft reinforced experiences with the Regin that differed from what I'd been taught or is on most websites. A good example is Hel. Pop Heathenry and most translators describe Her as half Lady half rotting corpse(or skeleton), which is NOT my experience in Trancework. He actually used Her as an example on one of his lectures on how the ON perceived Colors. The word(I believe Blaugh but I may misremember) that most translators read as Black is actually Blue(Black being a shade of Blue, which actually makes sense). Readings from various lays the word was mostly used to describe, well what we would recognize as a Goth look; Blue-ish White, Ill or recently Dead. NOT ROTTING, NOT A SKELETON. So, basically she's SUPPOSED to be seen as some Gothic Lady not part corpse. And on that....in another vid the word that's most oft translated as half is also used as "part". So, more accurately, She should be described pretty much looking like an upper class Lady with TB....a look that for some reason was considered very attractive for Women in Europe.
Cheers,
Pat
I esp like that he uses the reconstructed Old Norse of the period the Eddas were written down, though it at 1st was jarring since I'd learned my ON using Modern Icelandic pronunciation.
He's a stickler for the most accurate translation as possible(even having his own published) and goes back to the Codex Regius NOT transcribed copies that are posted on some ON websites. I personally thought ALL the ON Eddic poems had been translated for the original CR. You learn something new every day. Which is a great thing IMO!
He isn't a co-religionist but has stated that he can't find a better guide to life than the Havamal; which he's got a stand alone book on coming out this Fall with the CR on one page and his translation on the other AND why he translates something so if it contradicts other scholars. Needless to say, that's on my Yule list;>!
In my personal life, his work has oft reinforced experiences with the Regin that differed from what I'd been taught or is on most websites. A good example is Hel. Pop Heathenry and most translators describe Her as half Lady half rotting corpse(or skeleton), which is NOT my experience in Trancework. He actually used Her as an example on one of his lectures on how the ON perceived Colors. The word(I believe Blaugh but I may misremember) that most translators read as Black is actually Blue(Black being a shade of Blue, which actually makes sense). Readings from various lays the word was mostly used to describe, well what we would recognize as a Goth look; Blue-ish White, Ill or recently Dead. NOT ROTTING, NOT A SKELETON. So, basically she's SUPPOSED to be seen as some Gothic Lady not part corpse. And on that....in another vid the word that's most oft translated as half is also used as "part". So, more accurately, She should be described pretty much looking like an upper class Lady with TB....a look that for some reason was considered very attractive for Women in Europe.
Cheers,
Pat
