The humour takes some looking for. I read Hrolfs saga kraka in translation and was mostly bored by it; when we translated one segment, I discovered it was hilarious. (The hapless dweeb wasn't commenting from the sidelines, but he was building a shield-wall of chicken bones to protect himself from being picked on by the warriors, and he was very upset when Bodvarr knocked it over.) And though the Poetic Edda as a whole isn't all that funny, one does have to enjoy "The Flyting of Loki," which is basically a big round of "your mom!" "no, YOUR mom!"
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Date: 2007-06-03 02:45 pm (UTC)