|Books that have to go back soon|

• "The Fury of the Northmen" John Marsden. ISBN 0-312-130805 1993. St. Martin's Press, New York, NY.
• "The Daily Life of The Vikings" Kristen Wolf. Greenwod Press. Westport, Conn. ISBN 0-313-32269-4
• "A History of the Vikings" Gwyn Jones. ISBN 0-19-280134-1. Oxford University Press. 1968. New York, NY
• "Viking Age Iceland" Jesse Byock. ISBN Unknown. Penguin Goup. London, England. 2001
  "The Viking Achievment" Foote and Wilson. ISBN Unknown. Praeger Publishers Inc. New York, NY. 1970.
• "The Vikings: Rise and Fall of the Norse Sea Kings" Rudolf Poertner. St. James Press, London, England. 1971.
• "The Viking World" Jacqueline Simpson. ISBN 0-312-846592. 1980. St. Martin Press, New York, NY.
• "From Viking to Crusader: The Scandinavians and Europe 900-1200" General Editors: Else Roesdahl and David M. Wilson. Rozzoli International Publication, Inc. New York, NY. ISBN 0-8478-1625-7. 1992
• "Myth and Religion of hte North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia" E.O.G. Rurville-Petre. Holt, Rineheart and Winston. 1964. Printed in Great Britain.

More to be done in Ohio. Aie. A wee one's work is never done.

In a few...

Because I've been spending all of my time packing for Ohio, I haven't had much time to update and I read what I can. I think I'm starting to get the main pantheon of Gods seperated but as far as the wee ones and their wives and such, it's still a drag.

I took hand written notes on the "Religion of Ancient Scandinavia" so now i have to find where I left the consarnit tablet. I've been scanning through the rest of the books because they have to go back soon but I'm going to post their name, titles, and information here so when I get to shcool, I can find them.

Yeah, I bit off a little more than I can chew =P. Atleast for the time I was schedualed to have the books.

But I'm bringing some Joseph Campbell on the plane so it should be alright. I think.

Question--

--before I start breaking out into Destiny's Child, I haven't slept (reading too much -_-) so I was thinking of a few questions to ask Dr. Ruane at some point. Or maybe I'll just link him here later on when the medicine from the dentist wears off and I'm thinking straight. Not that he's used to me making sense...

1. Internet referrences. Do y'all (y'all meaning professors) like 'em? Do I need 'em? How many?
2. How many referrences do I need total?
3. This is double spaced, right?
4. I was thinking either sagas and hero cycles or Norse Myth and Christanity. Doable? Am I crazy? The latter is means I'm going to have to go to church or find Father Bailey. I haven't been in quite some time. ::cue lightning bolt:: Rather, that's Catholic er which is a branch but I'm guessing by 1100 there weren't any *other* branches...I guess that's more research in store ;_;
5. If I DID do the hero cycle thing, would I just be saying like how closely they resemble Mr. Campbell's circle or how they didn't?
6. Some of these sagas have a *really* gray area as to what is myth and what ain't. So is it safe to assume that if it doesn't include the Norse Pantheon, it's a saga?
7. How long is this? 50 pages? 100?
8. If I'm just doing myths or sagas, do I have to do major research on Norse/Viking home life? Or just focus fire on the sagas and the myths?
9. Is this MLA, APA, or that Chicago-style format that Dr. Taylor was talking about?
10. Does anybody have any idea on how to correctly pronounce some of this stuff? Half of it looks like the alphabet threw up and I don't want to look dumb...er.
11. How soon do I need a thesis statement (Read: how soon is it before I freak out?)
12. Can I include pictures? Can I draw my own if I can't find any? :)

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So I picked up some 'Nordic Religion in the Viking Age' books. *Squee!* They smell like book, it's so great! Like old paper and glue.

I have my quirks. Leave me alone =P

My new stack came from USF and Florida Southern, which both have HUGE lirbaries. You'd think that FIT would have something on paar w/ atleast FS but nooo. It'd be nice if we had more than 6 books on the Norse/Vikings but it's a tech school and it's filled with IEEE stuff. Not that there's anything wrong w/ IEEE.

Anyways, I found out I could do interlibrary loans from FIT from those two--just have to request them. As for the books from Dunedin, eh, that's going to be tougher. I could ask my grandma to go get them but that's like asking her to do quantum physics -_-;.

Wow, seeing how well this is flowing, I'm going to get a nap before I actually do notes so they make sense.

Beating the Clock

So in taking Dr. Ruane's advice, I've been working on the 1st of the viking books and since I've been beaten over the head with viking travel in just a few short weeks, I'm thinking of taking Beyond the Edge of the Sea by Mauricio Obregon back to the library. Plus it covers more Greek things in it (Argonauts, Ulysses, ect.) than Norse and just kinda retells the sagas...which after my giant book of sagas, I kinda don't need.

I've kinda narrowed it [my capstone] down to sagas and/or myths. I feel I can tolerate that for long amounts of time. But because I'm slightly insane, most of my preliminary work is studying Viking Culture as a whole like what they ate, where they lived, ect. Vikings: the North Atlantic Saga is far too long for it's own good but after the religion section, I'm just going to do a scan of the rest, not pick it apart like I have been--otherwise I won't get done 'til December.

Notes: http://atomikfenrir.livejournal.com/1807.html because LJ has a cut function. =P

After that book I'm going to attack Saga of the Norsemen by Auerbach and Loren. Unless the even more books I'm getting from the library are more interesting. That and maybe go through the gold book Dr. Ruane gave me again; all the stuff I learned from that one got pushed out by Civil War stuff for Dr. Taylor's class.

I have only a limited amout of room in here! ::taps forhead::

I'm planning on a trip to USF's library to see what they've got. It seems only fair--another college in the area so I should take advantage of it. So that'll be Saturday after the pain from my teeth wears off.

I should probably do some more Joesph Campbell too. I um, what's the word? I'm kinda dreading it but The Power of Myth isn't so bad. I think Hero With a Thousand Faces just kinda threw me off while I was reading other stuff for other classes. Maybe if I clear my mind and sit in a corner with some green tea and honey it'll come easier. I know with *those* books, I'm going to have to do the post-it note method, typing it all out would take forever.

I wonder what the policy is on internet citations? How many can I have? And do I have to use them at all? The internet is great tool but for something this serious, I'm kinda leery of it, I'd prefer written text.

If anything, I'm going to try to update atleast every few days with new stuff so I feel some sense of obligation and not spaztic "OMG I NEED 15 pages by TOMORROW!" but more of a mellow one. And of course random questions that I think of at that moment and when I get enough of them, I'll shoot Dr. Ruane an email to prevent 8 million of them, heh.

Summer Prep

So after spending June playing unhealthy amounts of World of Warcraft, I'm off to do research, yay! Going to Dunedin's library turned up...5 books on Vikings and 1 Joseph Campbell book. Yay. Not really. So I ordered stuff over the interlibrary loan system.


If I see one more book of General Robert E. Lee, I'm going to choak somebody.

So bringing those home, I started reading the Smithsonian Institute's Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga and got particularly sucked in. I guess I should do what Dr. Ruane said and learn more about Viking/Norse everyday life. It is interesting after all--except for travel.

Erik the Red and Leif Erikson can bite me. Rawr. Yes, they're awesome. But jeez louis, every, single text has like ATLEAST 2 chapters on them and I'm going, "I know ::skip::" but then feel guilty that I skipped and then I go back. Or something. Anyway, no travel.

Most of my time has been spent reading. My grandmother keeps confusing it with summer classes and I'm going, "Florida History and American History has NOTHING to do with Vikings, gah." Old people. I've crammed in one or two sagas, finished American Gods (it was great, amazing book, but I don't see how it's going to help me yet), rented/watched 3 documentries on mythmaking and Mr. Campbell, some of them modern myths like Star Wars (the History Channel one was AMAZING!), and played Balder's Gate...ok, so that really wasn't *complete* research but it had Balder in the title!


These and the other 15 or so cousins have taken up my bed, the rest are on my kitchen table.

So it's come down to what I find interesting: raids, mythology, Norse interaction with Christianity.

What I hope to never see again: Erik the Red.

I just keep remembering what Dr. Ruane said about finding something I can deal with the whole year. I think it can be like some arranged marriages; you grow to love it over time, kinda like my relationship with Civil War lecture. If anything, I'm looking on the *brightside* ::shock:: of this for right now.

The only part I'm freaking out on is...what the sam bejeebus I do with all of this info?! o_O I think I'll shoot Dr. Ruane an email, he'll know. He's all knowning after all ;)