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Sometime in 2017 CE, NorsePlay left a plus-tagged Google+ comment that directed the educational company The Great Courses to Old Norse Philologist Jackson Crawford, and I suggested that they commission him to do a course for them. Now in 2022 CE, that very course has materialized, and I'd like to think that NorsePlay's comment as a cultural actor was responsible for making that happen. Pretty much within the first few weeks of release, I ponied up my $75 (yes, I know they often have $35 sales, but we wanted to review it now. [And that talking squirrel running up & down that World Tree, All-Daddy, I want that squirrel NOW!]) [ No, no you really don't want that talking squirrel. ] So the pre-buying bottom line question would be: Can I get the same information from the same source by watching his YT channel's 400+ videos? Mostly. Yet, like a university course, the level of organization in these 24 half-hour lectures partitions things in an orderly fashion that hitting ...

NorsePlay makes a request: We want an English translation of Georges Dumézil's Loki . Many of Dumézil's other works have seen translation and do a fair share of referencing Loki , so it would stand to reason that for research's sake Loki would be translated too, but this is not yet the case. While we may not agree with some of Dumézil's premises, we love the erudition he brings to the table to weave together, and from this we always learn something. If any of you have contacts at Flammarion who can get a translation from UCLA Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore & Mythology or The University of Chicago Press' Derek Coltman, for the sake of Norse Lore studies, please do so. Thanks. [For NorsePlay's review of Dumézil's Gods of the Ancient Northmen, read it here .] #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. ...