Celts and Germans

While the subject matter promised to be intriguing--and was, for the most part--the professor's cadence drove me right out of my skull. He has a fondness of circular sentences that ramble and eventually find their point long after I've stopped listening to what he was saying. Very much like some of......more

The title is misleading as the lecture series doesn't really give a picture of the entire heritage of the Celts and the Germans, but concentrates on mythological and literary developments that continue to influence our literature to this day. Very good at showing common and unique themes alike.......more

Listened on audible, good, engaging......more

This is a good introductory series of lectures to some tentpole mythological and literary sources for the referenced cultures, and it continues on into Arthurian stories, which I might have left to another categorization, but which I also didn't mind. It doesn't go all that deep, and mostly summariz......more

The reading at first felt a little stilted and awkward, but Professor Shutt totally grew on me. I was laughing out loud by the end - his rendition of Sir Gawain and other legends was probably more entertaining than reading the originals. I'm a sucker for anything Celtic, Euro lit history, etc. so th......more