just a random cut and paste from regarding loki part 5. It addresses my issues with Snoori Snorri Sturluson was not the last great Heathen skald, who wrote down the legacies of his ancestors in some final tribute to them. The Prose Edda is not a literary time capsule, containing the carefully coded secrets of our ancestors. He was not a holy man, and his life doesn’t portray him as such. He was a politician who also knew a great deal about history as written by the Christian scholars who transcribed it. He we famous in his time as a poet and statesman, and that’s about it. If you were nice, you’d call him clever and intelligent. If you were not nice, you’d call him an opportunistic coward. Seriously, the man left his cousin on the field of battle due to a disagreement over chain of command. For someone that they treated as the writer of scripture, the man is a pretty piss poor role model. There is some evidence that he couldn’t read the runes, which makes his status as some unquestionable authority even more laughable. For the sake of the Gods, he isn’t even our faith! He is no different than any other Christian historian! Some of you go on and on about the evils of Christianity, and you take your dogma strait from a Christian scholar. It boggles the mind. This isn’t to say that Sturluson is completely worthless, or even a bad person. He is, however, not the prophet of the Odin or the writer of the Heathen bible. We are not a revealed religion, and we do not have any reason to interpret the lore in a “solo scriptorium” sort of way. Even if our ancestors did have such a holy text, all we have is material scribed by a completely different faith that had no interest in turning our sagas and legends into anything but metaphors for their own faith.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:56:34 +0000
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