#+SETUPFILE: ../../../template/level-2.org
#+TITLE: Forward
#+DATE: <2019-12-16 Mon>
#+AUTHOR: vaeringjar
#+EMAIL: vaeringjar@land
#+DESCRIPTION: 
#+KEYWORDS: edda

When I was much younger, I decided to write the eddas in a first
person novel format from Odin's point of view. I took what I knew as a
child growing up and added in countless hours at two of my local
libraries.

Over the years I lost parts of my work. Even tonight as I gather my
files, one draft of the story has been corrupted into oblivion. Most
significantly, years ago I lost a complete journal with an entire
chapter when someone broken into the car I had been traveling in to
steal my bag. It contained an original side story immediately
following the death of Ymir. I also stopped writing on paper at that
time. Not for distrust of the medium, but rather something of mine
died that day and at least up until today I have never found it again.

Here I plan to restore my work for the sake of any one
interested. Many academic historians know more than I do and even more
oral historians have the entire story. But I suspect my story has
flavour found nowhere else.

I had originally planned to write in the first person, but I might go
back on that decision, now having read so much more than I had
before. The style of the Sagas tends differently.
