Heh, I know exactly what you mean about the hushed-volume-after-bedtime. I get a bit of a pass on this because E is an extremely heavy sleeper once she actually gets to sleep (though while she's trying to sleep, if there is any noise at all she'll bounce about FOREVER).
Oh man, yes to Volsungasaga! (It was probably as a result of having read it that I was enticed to watch Wagner at all.) I did knuckle down and get the Penguin translation of the Nibelungenlied, which I've been trying and failing to read for a while; nothing against either the source or translation, but more to do with lately being bad about any reading that requires sustained effort, bah. I have never even heard of Þiðrekssaga, which sounds awesome.
So funny story: I got to Volsungasaga through William Morris's verse retelling (Sigurd the Volsung), which I found completely randomly in my grad school library (which had a small but eclectic humanities section) and fell in love with. Have you seen this? I mean, it's over-the-top rhyming couplets ("There was a dwelling of kings ere the world was waxen old;/ Dukes were the door-wards there, and the roofs were thatched with gold"), but I guess I am just all about over-the-top; I just utterly love it.
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Date: 2012-12-06 09:19 pm (UTC)Oh man, yes to Volsungasaga! (It was probably as a result of having read it that I was enticed to watch Wagner at all.) I did knuckle down and get the Penguin translation of the Nibelungenlied, which I've been trying and failing to read for a while; nothing against either the source or translation, but more to do with lately being bad about any reading that requires sustained effort, bah. I have never even heard of Þiðrekssaga, which sounds awesome.
So funny story: I got to Volsungasaga through William Morris's verse retelling (Sigurd the Volsung), which I found completely randomly in my grad school library (which had a small but eclectic humanities section) and fell in love with. Have you seen this? I mean, it's over-the-top rhyming couplets ("There was a dwelling of kings ere the world was waxen old;/ Dukes were the door-wards there, and the roofs were thatched with gold"), but I guess I am just all about over-the-top; I just utterly love it.