Fiction by Tessa: "Blood Like Apples"

[tessagratton]

Comments

[gracious_anne]

Just lovely. I needed that story today. Not sure why, but I know I needed a myth. Thank you, Tessa.

By any chance do you have good resources/book recommendations to find more on these Norse myths?

[tessagratton]

Yay! I'm glad. There are just some days when nothing but a myth will do.

I can recommend some basic books, but have to give the caveat that when I write about them, I change a LOT. Whatever I want. However I want. I write more in the "spirit" of the mythology than the "fact" of it. ;)

GODS AND MYTHS OF NORTHERN EUROPE by H. R. Ellis Davidson
MEETING THE OTHER IN NORSE MYTH AND LEGEND by McKinnell
BEOWULF'S WEALHTHEOW AND THE VALKYRIE TRADITION by Helen Damico
MYTH AND RELIGION OF THE NORTH: THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT SCANDINAVIA by Gabriel Turville-Petre

(Esp the Davidson and Damico)

And I recommend just getting your hands on the Eddas and poems of Snorri Sturlusson.

[gracious_anne]

Thank you so much. This is awesome. *runs off to nearest major university library*

[tessagratton]

Haha, I got all mine from university libraries, too, before I figured out which ones I wanted to buy.

[robinbridges]

Kennings! Tessa is a worthy skald. )

[tessagratton]

Heehee! Kennings are love!

[tessagratton]

Thank you! I love the word-play of all those old poems, as ya know.

This is same world as APPLES, yes. All the stories here under the "gods on earth" tag are APPLES stories. Though none of them are *actually* APPLES.

[anonymous]

This story is kind of dazzling in the sensory department, isn't it? I like it a lot.

[tessagratton]

Thank you! I'm not sure any of my stories have been called dazzling before. I like it. :D

[word_chick]

But it IS--all the scents and glittering...sigh!

[liamdeihr]

I hate you for writing this, because it's all I can think about. Ugh. Almost on par with ASH-TREE SPELL TO BREAK YOU HEART. I hate you for writing that one, too. Gorgeous, good job, and now I have to go show this to the world like I did with Ash-Tree...

[tessagratton]

Um, thanks for hating me? LOL. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

And also love it when you push our stories on the wide internets.

[antimony_medusa]

I like the line "With a ribbon woven from six impossible things they caught me, and the only god brave enough to tie off the knot was Tyr." I like it a great deal. Lovely story!

[tessagratton]

Thanks! The Norse myths are so so full of incredible imagery like that. I wish I could take all the credit.