So, someone commented on my first post that the real solution to my “Odic Tradition” dilemma was to find an ode about Odin, and thereby save myself a lot of time–thus, when someone says, “Oh, is that about odes or Odin?”, I can say, “Why, both!”
Well, that day is here.
Behold the beauty that is Thomas Gray’s “The Descent of Odin. An Ode.” I don’t even know how he could have brought himself to affix such an awkward title to anything.
And so my new goal is to work this thing into my honors thesis somehow.
Next time, a serious post about something research-related. Your Neomodernist is up to the neck in scholarship applications and compiling a thesis excerpt, but she’ll try to get something blog-like together about that soon.
Happy Thursday, folks. (Don’t I wish it were Wednesday, which, in Old Norse, is Oðinsdagr, or Odin’s Day?)