Legends – Knights, Pirates, Vikings and Robin Hood. Link from Michael Delahoyde‘s interesting mythology and literature site.
Also, a nice Robin Hood site, and a general one on Medieval Europe (have I linked to it before?), where I found this article about “Viking” Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Also, an excellent Greek Mythology site, GML.
Wired News reports about the US army’s plans to arm its soldiers in the future with thermobaric bullets, portable fuel-air bombs.
An entry on The Wandering Jew on the Jewish Encyclopedia site. The site itself contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.
Cool. A reference to match the The Catholic Encyclopedia?
An online guide to Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita.
Voluspa (translated by W.H. Auden and P.B. Taylor), from an Asatru site. Astru sites can be a bit spooky, but here’s one that shows a sense of humor: Loki: A Paean in Progress.
Why do I say that Asatru is spooky? Well, it compounds the general spookiness of religion with the fact that the objects of worship are ones I originally ran across in a Marvel comic.
To understand how The Mighty Thor messed me up, consider that I created my own character as an imitation (like I did with many of my favorite superheroes) and made him the son of the Hebrew god, like Thor was the son of Odin, king of the gods. Now, the Thor comics don’t mention that Odin is king of the Norse gods only, and apparently I wasn’t even acquainted with Zeus (or I was, but somehow reconciled the two, just like the comics did), so I spent time explaining to myself the relationship between Odin and Big J, the god we were learning about at school.
Anyway, for a refresher on Norse mythology, here’s a quick summary page, with multiple diagrams. It’s all in Norwegian (I think), but it’s easy to follow if you know the names. I need to make something like this in Hebrew.