Thanks for sharing your thoughts and your blessings!
1) I use "leaves" instead of "pages," as I like to use as many words that come from Old English as I can in my writing, most of all when writing about heathenry (I don't go quite so far as "Anglish," but it's in the same vein: https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Main_leaf).
2) Okay, fair enough, I suppose I took for granted that the audience would have some idea of what the book was/was about, which may have been a mistake, so I might add a "What is This Book?" section. As for the terminology, it seems clunky to define all of those terms, but maybe I can throw in some wikipedia links or the like to make it easier for readers unfamiliar with them to look them up.
3) Ouch, but again, fair enough.
4) It certainly could be, but I am nowhere near knowledgeable enough to make that comparison in any detail. Kvilhaug mentions some of those comparisons in the book, but doesn't go very deeply into them.
5) Well, as I say in the review, this is definitely not a good "my first Norse myth" book. If you are interested in that, Hilda Ellis-Davidson's Gods and Myths of Northern Europe is quite good and pretty short, and E.O.G. Turville-Petre's Myth and Religion of the North is one of the most academically-respected of such works, but is a bit longer and can be pretty pricey (it's priced as a textbook that will be subsidized by a university).
Thanks again for your thoughts. As my old boss used to say "feedback is a gift," Jeff
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Re: Overview of The Seed of Yggdrasill and Thanks
Date: 2024-01-30 12:58 am (UTC)Thanks for sharing your thoughts and your blessings!
1) I use "leaves" instead of "pages," as I like to use as many words that come from Old English as I can in my writing, most of all when writing about heathenry (I don't go quite so far as "Anglish," but it's in the same vein: https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Main_leaf).
2) Okay, fair enough, I suppose I took for granted that the audience would have some idea of what the book was/was about, which may have been a mistake, so I might add a "What is This Book?" section. As for the terminology, it seems clunky to define all of those terms, but maybe I can throw in some wikipedia links or the like to make it easier for readers unfamiliar with them to look them up.
3) Ouch, but again, fair enough.
4) It certainly could be, but I am nowhere near knowledgeable enough to make that comparison in any detail. Kvilhaug mentions some of those comparisons in the book, but doesn't go very deeply into them.
5) Well, as I say in the review, this is definitely not a good "my first Norse myth" book. If you are interested in that, Hilda Ellis-Davidson's Gods and Myths of Northern Europe is quite good and pretty short, and E.O.G. Turville-Petre's Myth and Religion of the North is one of the most academically-respected of such works, but is a bit longer and can be pretty pricey (it's priced as a textbook that will be subsidized by a university).
Thanks again for your thoughts. As my old boss used to say "feedback is a gift,"
Jeff