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weirdlyresourceful replied to your post “I’ve been thinking about Digimon and language a lot lately (as in,...”

I like the idea of places in Digital World being named after places from Norse mythology bc of Yggdrasil’s influence… after all, the Digiworld is a projection of our own

I have some mixed feelings about that... Mainly just that I feel like it’d be very cliché to use Norse mythology for naming, at least excessively. Midgard does sound cool and fitting, but at the same time I’d prefer something with a more of a Digimon-twist to it (”Digigard” isn’t a good example because it doesn’t sound nearly as nice but you get what I mean).

There’s also the fact that some places in the Digital World already have names of their own, like the Dark Area; would it have to be renamed Hellheim to fit with the other names?

And then there’s the fact that Yggdrasil isn’t universal to all Digital Worlds; Yggdrasil is the host computer and God of the Digital World(s) it rules over (vanilla and NEW (the new DW where Digimon get relocated to in X-Antibody stories)), but there are other Digital Worlds that aren’t ruled by Yggdrasil

Adventure’s DW (post-tri.) is ruled by Homeostasis for example, and then there’s Iliad, another Digital World (home of the Olympos XII) and it’s host computer is Homeros, not Yggdrasil. And indeed, we have plenty of Digital Worlds where it hasn’t been explicitly stated who or what the host computer is.

So like, Norse terminology could definitely work with Digital Worlds where Yggdrasil is a big thing, but treating it as the new default could have questionable consequences and straight up couldn’t be applied to DWs like Iliad

[fantastic-nonsense]

Do you know any good websites for finding fairytales?

Hi! Yes, I do!

My two favorite websites for reading the texts of fairy tales and their various variants are Surlalune and the University of Pittsburgh’s Folktext collection. Both are extensive, well-researched, and well-sourced. Surlalune in particular is an amazing resource for anything to do with fairy tales.

If you’re looking for print sources/anthologies, I recommend the following:

The Victorian Fairy Tales Book

Norton’s The Classic Fairy Tales

Norton’s The Great Fairy Tale Tradition

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (retellings, not original/source texts, but still really good)

Any and all of Andrew Lang’s Colored Fairy Books (the first two focus on collections of well-known tales, but most of them are sort of themed/grouped geographically and have fairy tales from all over the world)

The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library, including The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales

The Brothers Grimm: Illuminated Fairy Tales is a really beautifully illustrated version if you prefer those

The Complete Fairy Tales of George MacDonald

The Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myth and Legend

The Golden Ages of Folk and Fairy Tales: From the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang, Jack Zipes

I’m a big fan of the various “Annotated” Fairy Tale collections, like the Annotated Brothers Grimm, Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, and Annotated Hans Christen Andersen, though I don’t always agree with the editorializing. It’s a whole series, so I’m only going to link to a couple.

On that note, look for book collections put together and/or edited by Maria Tatar and Jack Zipes. They’re the two most prominent fairy tale scholars at the moment and basically have an unofficial duopoly on the fairy tale academic criticism market.

Also, a special shout-out to P.J. Lynch’s illustrated version of East of the Sun and West of the Moon, and really all of the fairy tales books that Lynch illustrates. They’re beautiful.

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