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Post by berencamlost7 on Nov 9, 2002 10:17:05 GMT
I love North European Mythlogy. Be it Irish, Welsh, Norse, Teutonic, Finnish etc. They are all full of wonderful stories, Gods and characters. And of course their influence on Fantasy authors is impossible to calculate. Far more influential , I would argue, than Roman or Greek save Homer.
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Post by Barrow-wight aka MELLON on Nov 15, 2002 13:55:45 GMT
Basically the same kind of choice for my part  I only wish to have more time for reading ....  When you make the comparison with the Greek / Latin ... it is actually interesting, the Celtic and Germanic are truly more influential ... I wonder to what extend this is due to "19th century" and all those national-revival / folkloristic efforts, fairy-tales "collectors (such as Grimm brothers ....), etc. |
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Post by Victoria on Dec 3, 2002 21:15:36 GMT
The mermaid of Zennor(16th Century)...Zennor is a village on the NorthWest coast of Cornwall(UK). Once upon a time a mermaid was enchanted bya chorister in the church at Zennor. When he went fishing she called out to him and he in turn was enchanted with her. One night he threw himself into the sea to be with her.Although no body was found his friends decided he had drowned. Many years passed and then one day , while fishing near a cave , some fisherman were surprised to see their friend swimming with a fish's tail. With him was the mermaid and several young merboys and mergirls!(The family of the chorister still live in the village and there is a mermaid carved seat in the church made during the 16th century)
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Post by Barrow-wight aka MELLON on Jul 14, 2004 21:51:53 GMT
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Post by moby on May 29, 2005 20:20:27 GMT
I love North European Mythlogy. Be it Irish, Welsh, Norse, Teutonic, Finnish etc. They are all full of wonderful stories, Gods and characters. And of course their influence on Fantasy authors is impossible to calculate. Far more influential , I would argue, than Roman or Greek save Homer. The only one I have read is Beowulf, and that was only because at the time I was a huge Fish-era Marillion fan and they have an epic song called Grendel based on the Beowulf legend |
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I only wish to have more time for reading .... 
