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12dejamoo's review
informative
slow-paced
3.0
This is not really meant to be read for fun and in one go like a story, but oh well. Having done a module that was basically taken from this book, I understood a lot of the points already, and had read Beowulf, the Liber Monstrorum and Grettisaga so I was definitely at the best I could be to understand it. I really enjoyed the first two chapters and the last one on Grettir, but the ones in the middle fell flat as info dumps for references to certain things in different texts. Like there was interesting stuff but it felt more like a textbook in the middle than it had at the start. A small complaint I have would be that although Orchard provides translations of the long quotes, sometimes he would just put some Old English or German without translating in and I just don't speak either of those languages and it was a bit annoying. Overall though I liked revisiting a topic I found really interesting when studying it!
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