Episode 43 – Beer and Worry – favourite verses from the Havamal
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
GIR – from Invader Zim (TV series 2001 – 2004) http://zim.wikia.com/wiki/GIR
“Thirteen!” from Rome Season 1, episode 11, ‘The Spoils’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spoils_(Rome)
The first time we looked at the Havamal: Frithcast episode 4: https://tac.podbean.com/e/frithcast-episode-4/
Yawning: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140811-warning-this-may-make-you-yawn
The pilot episode of Star Trek and that whole numbering thing: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=577426
And the reference to it in South Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLQ56tkO6Y&feature=youtu.be
Correction: The Havamal is a collection of pieces, not one single poem. Just, so’s you know.
Roman legions: https://www.toptenz.net/10-horrifying-facts-roman-legions.php
The inherent difficulties of working with translations: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/5699/8/08_chapter%202.pdf
“Better it is to have a stout heart always and face your troubles...” Herodotus. Herodotus, George Rawlinson (1996). “Histories”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions.
Declaration 127: http://www.declaration127.com/
There’s several versions of the Havamal available for free online and there are many translations. Head here to see a whole list of documents and commentary that you can go look at: http://www.germanicmythology.com/PoeticEdda2/Havamal.html
Translations – here’s 6 to get you going:
Larrington (1996 and 2014) http://www.germanicmythology.com/PoeticEdda2/LarringtonHavamal.html
Bray (1908) https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html
Thorpe (1865) http://www.heathenhof.com/benjamin-thorpes-havamal/
Hollander (1962) http://www.heathenhof.com/lee-m-hollanders-havamal/
Bellows (1923) http://www.heathenhof.com/h-a-bellows-havamal/
Auden and Taylor (1967) http://ragweedforge.com/havamal.html
Other folks have also tried their hand at translation: https://www.beyondweird.com/high-one.html
Dr Jackson Crawford’s ‘The Cowboy Havamal’ (2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-2p9qVSAa4
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