I'd like to phone an expert, Reeeeeeg.

[Terrance]

I doubt that we want to call in another expert to settle this. 
You guys have tried that before and it only gets mud on people. 
Say, maybe we should use our 50-50 and then poll the audience. 


Think reading the Edda will solve this? 

Go ahead. But you could always argue about the translation and so
on.....been there...done that...Rilke. It was awful! 

Also, this is oral tradition stuff so the audience knew to fill in the
blanks so to speak and that's kinda what Pynchon and Stig have done as
well. 

Anyway, these links settle the slave question as far as I'm concerned. 

I know that TRP makes use of this stuff in GR. I remember looking a ot
of stuff up then too, but I can't find it. Gods of the North is worth
reading even if it has some big errors. Branston actually says tha the
theories about some of the mythological stuff (like Vinland the good)
are so at odds that its amusing just to consider that intelligent
researchers and experts in the field of myth/religion/iceland...../
could come up with so many radically different theories based on pretty
much the same source material. 

Why does Stig talk about Greece? It seems that he is recounting, in
part, a cosmic (cosmogony) journey that is very similar to one found in
Homer (greece). 

Anyway, we have the classic inverted world. See Eliade and of course
Bakhtin on the elements of Carnival and MS. 

Gee, wish I had time to play, but I gotta go run now. 

Say, I really think it is worth looking at the end of Mondaugan's story
because the Hottentot dialect there can't be understood. Reading whip
scars or reefers is in GR. 




http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/

http://www.utn.stjr.is/interpro/utanr/utanrad.nsf/pages/wpp1523

http://www.northvegr.org/lore/precolumbian/001.html

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/16/h16-4207-e.html