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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986 CE), Argentinian poet, writer, and national librarian, is a globally recognized giant of Latin literary  erudition. His essays, mind-bending short stories, and bittersweet verses almost all manage to reach & grasp something beyond themselves, unveiling a cosmic truth. And this last aspect is the NorsePlay & insight that Borges recognized within the Edda s, as a number of his works fondly explore the Norse Lore. In the earliest times, which were so susceptible to vague speculation and the inevitable ordering of the universe, there can have existed no division between the poetic and the prosaic. Everything must have been tinged with magic. Thor was not the god of Thunder; he was the thunder and the god . ~ from Borges' The Gold of the Tigers The literary parallels here between just-so events in Latin magical realism & surrealism being presented in a matter-of-fact way is equally found in the sagas & histories where troublesome zombie ghost...

After completing the Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney , we couldn't help but notice that at Earl Rögnvald Kali Kolsson's stop in Narbonne how he composes court-like but still Heathen-like battle imagistic poetry to celebrate their Queen  Ermingerd's   beauty. In verse  Rögnvald   declares his adoration of her, and of the personal attention that she gives him as a guest in her realm. And even far after  Rögnvald  insists on leaving to complete his Mediterranean adventure, despite Ermingerd's courtiers strongly suggesting he marry her , he and the more poetically disposed of his men still continue to sing of her worth, hoping that she will hear these tales of their deeds as they head eastwards, and in their words she becomes a paragon of beauty that inspires their actions, an unforgettable ideal . Yet it's never explained why Earl Rognvald doesn't return to southern coastal France and reconnect with his favoured Queen (well, t...