Well, he didn't have much choice in the matter!

It's important to try and approach the texts from a scholarly position, the prose Edda for example is one of the most complete and comprehensive records of Norse mythology but was written with the intent of providing a framework for court skalds in Scandinavia, written by a Christian for a Christian audience. one thing it's important to understand is that the Norse mythology was almost certainly not practiced on a comprehensive and thorough scale, stories and practices would have varied widely from area to area and over time as well. It's why I find reading the sagas interesting because the mythology is sprinkled through, and presented in a more day-to-day fashion

It's a pet topic, happy to answer any questions you might have 🙂

The poetic Edda and the prose Edda are good starting points, Gesta Danorum also relevant, and you can follow it up with some of the sagas, there's a compilation called Sagas of the Icelanders that is good

Not really the answer to the question you asked, but I've seen multiple people angry about the litany against fear from Dune, because it's wierd nerd shit but it WORKS.

The things that made it bad are the things that made it appealing to certain people. The characters were deliberately bland, so the reader could be like "this is just like me and my crush" it was set in high school for the same reason, etc etc.

Tells you why the phrase "may you live in interesting times" is considered a curse

It really depends on the situation, but you could tap and extract it, simply drill the entire thing out, or the easiest solution might be to remove the entire section and splice in fresh timber and start from scratch. If that screw is fucked, chances are the rest of the installation isn't far behind

Well, there's a whole mythos, but one of the deitys in that lore is of Nurgle, the god of disease and decay

Are you familiar with WH40K?

Proto Nurgle