Edda, Beowulf and the like

• My impression is that the said sagas are often taken to represent pseudo-religious ramblings of not too well thinking half rogue men, whereas I take them to be allegories that represent deeper insights into the meaning of life in general.
  
  Those who believe, for example, that dragons etc. were once believed to be real historical animals, have maybe exactly the simpleness of mind that they attribute to the peoples that knew the sagas. Isn't the dragon the representation of evil? Truly the dragon that has come to a land that deserved it for decadence, is slain by the hero of impeccable moral stature. Take Grendel as exemplary for that, and the mother of Grendel as the primal titanic source of the evil apparent.
  Further explanation of details will expound this similarity that is too fitting and holds too detaildly for coincidence.
  
  The fighting of the dragon that guards a treasure (and are there treasures that aren't?) likewise represents the purgatory that a hero has to go through before having access to the treasure — the specific value of which seldomly goes into the hero's savings account but is allegorical too, for the wisdom and integrity found after cleansing of ill traits. Note that the dragon cannot be slain by straightforward attack, but can be by attacking the soft belly... by which it is fed and prospers. Very, very much the same as the evil of fundamentalism (rightwing of leftwing, be that religious or not), decadence, unjust power seeking and overly harsh warlords have to be attacked; not by addressing rational defense mechanisms like arguments but by undoing the primal fears and forces at the core.
  
  
• A different note altogether (is it?): We're writing/talking of peoples that already had quite some culture and scientific and societal understanding (as we see that...); they're as many centuries from the Romans and Kelts as we are from them. For centuries, Christianity had been around in monastries, etc., the great cathedrals were built, European empires were normal business with administrative and tax systems coming of age. Would one think that such people would still dwell in myths and sagas as if these represented scientific history? Admittedly sagas belong to Nordic peoples that had far less been christened, but on the other hand these peoples had their own societal structures.
  Even Huizinga hardly acknowledges this incongruity, but then he only limitedly focuses on high court culture.
  
  
• And Nietzsche would have liked the mentality of valour and raw natural strength — of mind: Jenseits von Gut und Böse —, hence natural leaders approaching the Übermenschen ideal, still happily far off of the foul despicable Christian untermenschen meekness. So do I.
  
  
• More will follow, as it comes to my mind.