Hollin Barrow

The old stories, told from the texts that kept them.

Hollin Barrow retells one myth, episode or figure at a time, straight from the primary texts. The material is the Poetic and Prose Eddas and the sagas, Hesiod, Homer, the Homeric Hymns and Ovid, Malory and the Mabinogion, the Kalevala, Beowulf, Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata and Ramayana, Journey to the West, and the Ulster Cycle of Cuchulainn. Each piece tells the events in order, then separates what the text says from what later retellings added. Every detail is attributed to its source and translator. Where the sources contradict each other, we name both versions and leave the contradiction standing. Scripts, artwork and narration are made with AI software. They draw on named public domain translations from Project Gutenberg and Wikisource, plus Wikipedia summaries under CC BY-SA 4.0. Every script is checked against those sources before release, and each video description lists the texts, translators and free links used.

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