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Baldr's Magic

Author : Nicholas E. Brink
Publisher : Bear
ISBN 13 : 9781591431848
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Baldr's Magic written by Nicholas E. Brink and published by Bear. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to using ecstatic trance to connect with your ancestors, rediscover your extrasensory powers, and reclaim the peaceful nature of humanity • Illustrates ecstatic trance postures to connect with the ancient Nordic people, to journey to exact points in time, and to access powers such as seeing into our future • Explains how the coming new age of peace and veneration for Mother Earth was predicted in Norse mythology as the rebirth of the compassionate god Baldr • Expands on the stories of the early Nordic gods and goddesses from the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda Connecting Norse mythology, ecstatic trance, the Universal Mind, and the dawn of a new age of peace and veneration for Mother Earth, Nicholas Brink reveals how we can use ecstatic and hypnotic trance to learn more directly and deeply from our distant ancestors, rediscover our extrasensory powers, and reclaim the original magical nature of humanity. The imminent rebirth of a peaceful, balanced, connected world was predicted in Norse mythology as the return of Baldr, the gentle and compassionate Nordic god of truth, healing, and rune work. Illustrating ecstatic trance postures to connect with the ancient Nordic people and their beliefs, to journey to exact points in time, and to access specific powers, such as seeing into our future, Brink explores humanity’s evolving cycle of consciousness from the era when the Great Mother goddess was the center of life through the transition to the worship of power and physical strength in the Bronze Age and the world of the Vikings. He explores the coming return of Baldr and the imminent new age of peace and respect for the earth. Through hypnotic divination, the author expands the stories of the early Nordic gods and goddesses from the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, in particular the fertility deities of the Vanir, such as Freyr, Freyja, and Idunn, who came before the warrior deities of the Æsir, such as Odin, Thor, and Loki. He details the epic battle of Ragnarǫk and the birth, life, death, and rebirth of Baldr. Brink shows how these ancient stories happen outside of time, in the past, present, and future, thus Baldr’s return is replayed in our death-rebirth experiences of life, in each dawn, with each spring, and now with the birth of a new age that we see happening all around us. Through the power of trance at this time of rebirth, we move full circle to reclaim the magic of the earliest times, the times of the Garden of Idunn.

Baldr's Magic

Author : Nicholas E. Brink
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591437644
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Baldr's Magic written by Nicholas E. Brink and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to using ecstatic trance to connect with your ancestors, rediscover your extrasensory powers, and reclaim the peaceful nature of humanity • Illustrates ecstatic trance postures to connect with the ancient Nordic people, to journey to exact points in time, and to access powers such as seeing into our future • Explains how the coming new age of peace and veneration for Mother Earth was predicted in Norse mythology as the rebirth of the compassionate god Baldr • Expands on the stories of the early Nordic gods and goddesses from the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda Connecting Norse mythology, ecstatic trance, the Universal Mind, and the dawn of a new age of peace and veneration for Mother Earth, Nicholas Brink reveals how we can use ecstatic and hypnotic trance to learn more directly and deeply from our distant ancestors, rediscover our extrasensory powers, and reclaim the original magical nature of humanity. The imminent rebirth of a peaceful, balanced, connected world was predicted in Norse mythology as the return of Baldr, the gentle and compassionate Nordic god of truth, healing, and rune work. Illustrating ecstatic trance postures to connect with the ancient Nordic people and their beliefs, to journey to exact points in time, and to access specific powers, such as seeing into our future, Brink explores humanity’s evolving cycle of consciousness from the era when the Great Mother goddess was the center of life through the transition to the worship of power and physical strength in the Bronze Age and the world of the Vikings. He explores the coming return of Baldr and the imminent new age of peace and respect for the earth. Through hypnotic divination, the author expands the stories of the early Nordic gods and goddesses from the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, in particular the fertility deities of the Vanir, such as Freyr, Freyja, and Idunn, who came before the warrior deities of the Æsir, such as Odin, Thor, and Loki. He details the epic battle of Ragnarǫk and the birth, life, death, and rebirth of Baldr. Brink shows how these ancient stories happen outside of time, in the past, present, and future, thus Baldr’s return is replayed in our death-rebirth experiences of life, in each dawn, with each spring, and now with the birth of a new age that we see happening all around us. Through the power of trance at this time of rebirth, we move full circle to reclaim the magic of the earliest times, the times of the Garden of Idunn.

Essays on Eddic Poetry

Author : John McKinnell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442669276
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Eddic Poetry written by John McKinnell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell. While McKinnell’s work addresses many of the perennial issues in the study of Old Norse, this collection has a special focus on the interplay between heathen and Christian world-views in the poems. Among the texts examined are Hávamál, which includes an elegantly cynical poem about Óðinn’s sexual intrigues and a more mystical one about his self-sacrifice on the world-tree in order to gain magical wisdom; Vǫlundarkviða, which recounts an elvish smith’s revenge for his captivity and maiming; and Hervararkviða, where the heroine bravely but foolishly raises her dead father to demand the deadly sword Tyrfingr from him. Originally published between 1988 and 2008, these twelve essays cover a wide range of mythological and heroic poems and have been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship.

The Magic of Yggdrasill

Author : Yves Kodratoff
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1627342907
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Yggdrasill written by Yves Kodratoff and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book took its start with the author’s realization that what Old Norse calls 'magic' can be understood as 'unconscious', as stated by C. G. Jung: (we find) "magical means everything where unconscious influences are at work." This book reveals the existence of several Norse words specifically dedicated to magic, as are 'sköp', for instance, and it details the magic they carry with them. In our modern civilization these "skop" still exist but their magical nature is no longer obvious, though this point can be disputed. Once this magic is discovered and acknowledged, it becomes possible to infer from Norse poetry the existence and handling of unconscious archetypes within its associated myths. A few of them have been analyzed in detail and this enabled us to better understand some surprising traits of this mythology... up to detecting 'magical spells' imbedded within Norse poetry (they are usually dubbed as 'Galdralag"). The book ends by sending to the readers a positive of such 'spells' by which "Odinn" self-increased his thoughts and deeds, as given in Havamal. The book aims at four logically connected targets: 1) spotting Poetic Edda stanzas using a vocabulary calling upon magic for improving our knowledge of ancient Norse magic, 2) checking that no convincing proof of "Christian influences" on Poetic Edda had been provided by the academic community, 3) spotting a few images of Old Norse unconscious archetypes, and 4) finding a few typical instances of the Eddaic meter called Galdralag ("incantation meter").

Anglo-Saxon Magic

Author : Godfrid Storms
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401763127
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Magic written by Godfrid Storms and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Germanic Magic

Author : Gunivortus Goos
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 374949794X
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Germanic Magic written by Gunivortus Goos and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three parts of the book are separated fields and deal with different facets of the runes. Part 1 gives, among other things, a fair summarizing historical overview, whereby corresponding finds and their possible interpretations are not left out. Part 2 offers many passages in related mythology and the Norse sagas where runes occur, the corresponding quotes are included. These two parts form an important foundation for the third part, which deals with the use of runes in modern magical-practical usage. After decades of study of various western streams and schools of magic and a thorough study of the runes, the author has managed to combine both. The result is a unique modern rune magic, which is presented in the third part of the book.

Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages

Author : Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203712
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able—and who in some instances thought themselves able—to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less familiar to the nonspecialist, including legal cases, church art, law codes, ecclesiastical records, and runic spells. Mitchell's starting point is the year 1100, by which time Christianity was well established in elite circles throughout Scandinavia, even as some pre-Christian practices and beliefs persisted in various forms. The book's endpoint coincides with the coming of the Reformation and the onset of the early modern Scandinavian witch hunts. The terrain covered is complex, home to the Germanic Scandinavians as well as their non-Indo-European neighbors, the Sámi and Finns, and it encompasses such diverse areas as the important trade cities of Copenhagen, Bergen, and Stockholm, with their large foreign populations; the rural hinterlands; and the insular outposts of Iceland and Greenland. By examining witches, wizards, and seeresses in literature, lore, and law, as well as surviving charm magic directed toward love, prophecy, health, and weather, Mitchell provides a portrait of both the practitioners of medieval Nordic magic and its performance. With an understanding of mythology as a living system of cultural signs (not just ancient sacred narratives), this study also focuses on such powerful evolving myths as those of "the milk-stealing witch," the diabolical pact, and the witches' journey to Blåkulla. Court cases involving witchcraft, charm magic, and apostasy demonstrate that witchcraft ideologies played a key role in conceptualizing gender and were themselves an important means of exercising social control.

Illustrated Lexicon of Germanic Deities

Author : Gunivortus Goos
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 375685597X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated Lexicon of Germanic Deities written by Gunivortus Goos and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lexicon of Germanic deities fills a gap in its branch. It introduces goddesses and gods of Germanic peoples in the form of a lexicon. These are names of deities in inscriptions from Roman times, as well as deities from mostly medieval literary works from Iceland and Scandinavia, and goddesses and gods that are mentioned only in sources of later times, where the gathered collection of folk tales from the Renaissance on plays an important role. The quality of these sources varies greatly, all have their shortcomings and leave many questions unanswered. Regardless, this lexicon tries to explain all this as good as possible ... unambiguously and critically. The longer introductory chapter plays a central role in classifying and evaluating the provided information.

Old Norse Folklore

Author : Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150177347X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Old Norse Folklore written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. Old Norse Folklore explores the complexities of thisfascinating world in case studies and theoretical essays that connect orality and performance theory to memory studies, and myths relating to pre-Christian Nordic religion to innovations within late medieval pilgrimage song culture. Old Norse Folklore provides critical new perspectives on the Old Norse world, some of which appear in this volume for the first time in English. Stephen A. Mitchell presents emerging methodologies by analyzing Old Norse materials to offer a better understandings ofunderstanding of Old Norse materials. He examines, interprets, and re-interprets the medieval data bequeathed to us by posterity—myths, legends, riddles, charms, court culture, conversion narratives, landscapes, and mindscapes—targeting largely overlooked, yet important sources of cultural insights.

The Teutonic Way: Religion

Author : Kveldulf Gundarsson
Publisher : The Three Little Sisters
ISBN 13 : 1959350102
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book The Teutonic Way: Religion written by Kveldulf Gundarsson and published by The Three Little Sisters. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding on Teutonic magic, the book continues the pathway to understanding the heathen religion and faith. Teutonic Religion has been updated with new charts, tables, and diagrams.

Spinning Wyrd

Author : Ryan Smith
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738769959
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Spinning Wyrd written by Ryan Smith and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve Deeper into Norse Paganism with this Radically Inclusive Approach Expanding on the progressive ideas and practices in The Way of Fire and Ice, this next-step book teaches you how to tap into the forces of the Nordic cosmos. The greatest of these forces is wyrd, the symphony of life cocreated by all beings, from the humblest plants to the mightiest gods. Bestselling author Ryan Smith guides you deep into the mysteries, where you'll discover the role of fate, the importance of the Nine Worlds, the Norse concept of the self, and more. Ryan helps you develop direct relationships with animistic powers, commune with the dead, and cultivate your skills in ecstatic trance journeywork. Spinning Wyrd is for practitioners who are looking for more than the basics, who want to master the mysticism of Heathenry and build a better world.

Germanic Myths in the Audiovisual Culture

Author : Paloma Ortiz-de-Urbina
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823393006
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Germanic Myths in the Audiovisual Culture written by Paloma Ortiz-de-Urbina and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germanic mythology is currently experiencing a significant boom in audiovisual media, especially among younger audiences. Heroes such as Thor, Odin and Siegfried populate television and comic series, films, and video games. When and why did this interest in Germanic mythology emerge in the media? Starting from the interpretation of the myths used by Richard Wagner in 'The Ring of the Nibelung' at the end of the 19th century, the contributions in this volume examine the reception of Germanic myths in audiovisual media in the course of the 20th and 21st century.

Runic Amulets and Magic Objects

Author : Mindy MacLeod
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843832058
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Runic Amulets and Magic Objects written by Mindy MacLeod and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh examination of one of the most contentious issues in runic scholarship - magical or not? The runic alphabet, in use for well over a thousand years, was employed by various Germanic groups in a variety of ways, including, inevitably, for superstitious and magical rites. Formulaic runic words were inscribed onto small items that could be carried for good luck; runic charms were carved on metal or wooden amulets to ensure peace or prosperity. There are invocations and allusions to pagan and Christian gods and heroes, to spirits of disease, and even to potential lovers. Few such texts are completely unique to Germanic society, and in fact, most of the runic amulets considered in this book show wide-ranging parallels from a variety of European cultures. The question ofwhether runes were magical or not has divided scholarship in the area. Early criticism embraced fantastic notions of runic magic - leading not just to a healthy scepticism, but in some cases to a complete denial of any magical element whatsoever in the runic inscriptions. This book seeks to re-evaulate the whole question of runic sorcery, attested to not only in the medieval Norse literature dealing with runes but primarily in the fascinating magical texts of the runic inscriptions themselves. Dr MINDY MCLEOD teaches in the Department of Linguistics, Deakin University, Melbourne; Dr BERNARD MEES teaches in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne.

Völuspâ. Vofþrûðnismâl. Grimnismál. Hrafnagaldr Odins. Vegtamskvida eða Baldrs draumar. Hávamál. Runatalsþáttr Oðins. Hymiskviða. Thrymskviða eðor Hamarsheimt. Alvíssmál. Harbarðslióð. För Skirnis eðr Skirnismál. Rígsmál. Œgisdrekka, eða Lokasenna. Fiölsvinnsmál. Hyndlulióð. Gróugaldr. Solarlióð. Mythological index

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Author : Benjamin Thorpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book Völuspâ. Vofþrûðnismâl. Grimnismál. Hrafnagaldr Odins. Vegtamskvida eða Baldrs draumar. Hávamál. Runatalsþáttr Oðins. Hymiskviða. Thrymskviða eðor Hamarsheimt. Alvíssmál. Harbarðslióð. För Skirnis eðr Skirnismál. Rígsmál. Œgisdrekka, eða Lokasenna. Fiölsvinnsmál. Hyndlulióð. Gróugaldr. Solarlióð. Mythological index written by Benjamin Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poetic Edda

Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191662941
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Edda written by Carolyne Larrington and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish. After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, the exploits of gods and humans are related. The one-eyed Odin, red-bearded Thor, Loki the trickster, the lovely goddesses, and the giants who are their enemies walk beside the heroic Helgi, Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer, Brynhild the shield-maiden, and the implacable Gudrun. This translation also features the quest-poem The Lay of Svipdag and The Waking of Angantyr, in which a girl faces down her dead father to retrieve his sword. Comic, tragic, instructive, grandiose, witty, and profound, the poems of the Edda have influenced artists from Wagner to Tolkien and speak to us as freely as when they were first written down seven hundred and fifty years ago.

The Poetic Edda

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192839466
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Edda written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as thePoetic Eddacontains the great narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. The mythological poems explore the wisdom of the gods and giants, narrating the adventures of the god Thor against the hostile giants and the gods' rivalries amongst themselves. The heroic poems trace the exploits of the hero Helgi and his valkyrie bride, the tragic tale of Sigurd and Brynhild's doomed love, and the terrible drama of Sigurd's widow Gudrun and her children. Many of the poems predate the conversion of Scandinavia to Christianity, allowing us to glimpse the pagan beliefs of the North. Since the rediscovery of thePoetic Eddain the seventeenth century, its poetry has fascinated artists as diverse as Thomas Gray, Richard Wagner, and Jorge Luis Borges. This is the first complete translation to be published in Britain for fifty years, and it includes a scholarly introduction, notes, a genealogy of the gods and giants, and an index of names. With a new, modern package this title is an invaluable classic for your bookshelf.

Norse Mythology

Author : John Lindow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198034997
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Norse Mythology written by John Lindow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland and outlines the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world. The book begins with an Introduction that helps put Scandinavian mythology in place in history, followed by a chapter that explains the meaning of mythic time, and a third section that presents in-depth explanations of each mythological term. These fascinating entries identify particular deities and giants, as well as the places where they dwell and the varied and wily means by which they forge their existence and battle one another. We meet Thor, one of the most powerful gods, who specializes in killing giants using a hammer made for him by dwarfs, not to mention myriad trolls, ogres, humans and strange animals. We learn of the ongoing struggle between the gods, who create the cosmos, and the jötnar, or giants, who aim to destroy it. In the enchanted world where this mythology takes place, we encounter turbulent rivers, majestic mountains, dense forests, storms, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon and snakes in a landscape closely resembling Scandinavia. Beings travel on ships and on horseback; they eat slaughtered meat and drink mead. Spanning from the inception of the universe and the birth of human beings to the universe's destruction and the mythic future, these sparkling tales of creation and destruction, death and rebirth, gods and heroes will entertain readers and offer insight into the relationship between Scandinavian myth, history, and culture.