How do you get into Germanic mythology? Edda? Which one? What

>>9886288
Nibelungenlied and Thidrekssaga.
Edda also, just mind the Christian stuff.

>>9886288
Both Eddas, but the Poetic Edda is older.

The Icelander's sagas (Njals, Laxdæla, Grettis), the Kings' sagas (Sverris, the St. Olaf sagas), the short tales of Icelanders, the knights' sagas (Brother Robert's translation of Tristan),

>>9887286
It is pretty funny that the Nibelungenlied mythologizes characters who were themselves Christians in real life.

>>9886288
What's the context of this photo?

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>>9887747

The Rhinemaidens are pleading to the demigod Loge for Wotan's help to regain their Gold (and with it the power to rule the universe) from the wretched Alberich The Dwarf.

It's a depiction by Arthur Rackham, of a scene in Part 1 of Wagner's Ring cycle. Richard Wagner wrote Der Ring des Nibelungen as an allegory for many things, and composed it mainly of various Germanic myths and folktale. He was a man utterly convinced he was bringing about a higher sphere of human experience through his music. They're worth listening to despite their anti-Semitic disposition.
To OP I would also recommend John Gardner's Grendel of 1971 if (s)he has read Beowulf.