Hi Jeff, thanks for the offered blessings and may your week and all its studies be blessed.
Wouldn't 600 leaves make 1,200 pages?
You don't give any kind of explanation what the book is. I surmise that "A massive personal interpretation of the theology of ancient Norse myths" might be it. But this is only a guess from trying to identify, from m many remarks about leaves, that this might be something about a forest.
Mentioning but never defining "Eddic and skaldic poems," "the skalds," "wights, steads," "Kennings, heiti," "the whole Poetic Edda" in your review only mystifies someone not already familiar with Norse myths.
I get the impression that the book really needed an editor's hand. Alas, and with respect for all your slogging, I think this summary essay might, too.
An interesting comparison might be to how myths use multiple gods to represent aspects of one ultimate spiritual unity, between North mythology and other systems also said to do this, such as Hinduism.
I have the impression that I'd be 100% lost from page one of this book, and still missing the forest by the last leaf.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
Re: Overview of The Seed of Yggdrasill and Thanks
Date: 2024-01-29 04:36 pm (UTC)Wouldn't 600 leaves make 1,200 pages?
You don't give any kind of explanation what the book is. I surmise that "A massive personal interpretation of the theology of ancient Norse myths" might be it. But this is only a guess from trying to identify, from m many remarks about leaves, that this might be something about a forest.
Mentioning but never defining "Eddic and skaldic poems," "the skalds," "wights, steads," "Kennings, heiti," "the whole Poetic Edda" in your review only mystifies someone not already familiar with Norse myths.
I get the impression that the book really needed an editor's hand. Alas, and with respect for all your slogging, I think this summary essay might, too.
An interesting comparison might be to how myths use multiple gods to represent aspects of one ultimate spiritual unity, between North mythology and other systems also said to do this, such as Hinduism.
I have the impression that I'd be 100% lost from page one of this book, and still missing the forest by the last leaf.
Christopher from California