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I am a high schooler from Texas who has run out of older sources to read. So far I have read the following: Popol Vuh, Prose Edda, roughly 3/4 of Poetic Edda, Kalevala, parts of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, a bad translation of the Nihon Shoki, Ovid's Metamorphosis, The Odyssey, The Iliad, the...

This theory seems fairly familiar to me, but I can remember where I saw it for the life of me.

I haven't read the book A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend & Folklore that Misfit mentioned, but have done what I consider to be a fair amount of research via the internet. As far as I am aware, the majority of what we know about Celtic myth came from oral tradition, rather than early source...

Similar to Misfit, I started in elementary school with D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, but through both Certamen (a Latin competition) as well as Quizbowl (a general knowledge competition), I quickly found it to be one of my favorite subjects. Nowadays, as a high schooler in Texas, I spend a...

Hi Misfit, I'm a 17 yo young myth fanatic with few solid recources to study mythology. As a result, I read William George Aston's translation after failing to find an alternative and can describe it as servicable. While I did feel that it was pretty silly at times, I still felt that reading it...