@Emmacox Yes, my Merlin bird app has been getting a workout while I wonder what that one was.

@Emmacox Also agents: "Baaa!"

@Emmacox Or it's an opportunity for one of the characters to show selflessness by sleeping on the floor.

@Emmacox Tropes are for subverting.

@Emmacox Tolkien's version is more faithful to the language of the original, but he translated it as a teaching aid, and it often shows. Heaney's is still very controversial - he used a lot of Ulster words and phrases - but it's the more poetic, and more easily understood by the modern reader.

@Emmacox Indeed yes. The same can be said about Beowulf.

@Emmacox The thing about Norse myth is that there is really only one source for it, which simplifies things.

@Emmacox Yes, mainly Norse and Old English folklore. I often find what is called Celtic folklore very confusing.

@Emmacox Depends if it's a stand alone or part of a series ... although of course the latter can become very annoying if they never get finished! I do rather like the ambiguity you propose for your story, though.