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Norse Myths (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
by Kevin Crossley-Holland  Publisher Comments Here are thirty-two classic myths that bring the Viking world vividly to life. The mythic legacy of the Scandinavians includes a cycle of stories filled with magnificent images from pre-Christian Europe. Gods, humans, and monstrous beasts engage in...
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Penguin Epics #16: Sagas and Myths of the Northmen
by Anonymous Publisher Comments In a land of ice, warriors search for glory. When a dragon threatens the people of the north, only one man can destroy the beast. Elsewhere, a leader gathers a court of champions, including a noble warrior under a curse. The Earth's creation is described;...
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Norse Mythology: Great Stories from the Eddas
by Hamilton Wright Mabie Publisher Comments Imaginative retellings of 17 ancient Norse tales, ranging from the creation of the world to the death of the gods. Included are Odin's trip to Mimer in search of knowledge, the making of Thor's hammer, the loss of Idun's wondrous apples, and the task of...
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The Poetic Edda: The Heroic Poems (Dover Value Editions)
by Henry Adams (trn) Bellows Publisher Comments The companion volume to Dover's The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems, this vibrant compilation presents the heroic sagas of Scandinavia's ancient oral traditions. These timeless legends of superhuman warriors and doomed lovers have inspired...
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Edda
by Snorri Sturluson Synopsis Each book in the "Everyman" series has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology of life and times of the author, plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response....
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Norwegian Folk Tales: From the Collection of Peter Christen Asbj Rnsen, J Rgen Moe (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
by Peter Ch Asbjornsen Publisher Comments Collected here in a contemporary translation. With these tales we meet witches, trolls and ogres, sly foxes and mysterious bears, beautiful princesses and country lads turned heroes. Includes illustrations....
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Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend
by John Mckinnell Synopsis A particular, recurring feature of Old Norse myths and legends is an encounter between creatures of This World (gods and human beings) and those of the Other (giants, giantesses, dwarves, prophetesses, monsters and the dead). Concentrating on cross...
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Folktales of Norway (Folktales of the World Ser)
by Reidar Christiansen Publisher Comments Often lacking the clear episodic structure of folktales about talking animals and magic objects, legends grow from retellings of personal experiences. Christiansen isolated some seventy-seven legend types, and many of these are represented here in...
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Great Norse, Celtic and Teutonic Legends
by Wilhelm Wagner Publisher Comments Captivating collection of legends and romances encompasses the principal hero-lays of the great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages — Hegeling and Nibelung legends, Beowulf, Knights of the Round Table, the Rhine legend of Lohengrin, and many...
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Poetic Edda (86 Edition)
by Lee Milton (translator) Hollander Publisher Comments The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore...
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Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (64 Edition)
by H. R. Ellis Davidson Synopsis Surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples....
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Tales of the Norse Gods and Heroes
by Edward Thomas Publisher Comments Collected here by the great Oxonian Norse scholar and translator are the stories of Thor, Odin, Loki, and the gods of Valhalla, as well as the saga of the descendants of Volsung, Sigmund, Helgi, and Sigurd. Contains some of the great works of early...
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Poetic Edda the Mythological Poems
by Henry Adams Bellows Publisher Comments The vibrant Old Norse poems in this 13th-century collection recapture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. These mythological poems include the Voluspo, one of the broadest literary conceptions of the world's creation and ultimate destruction...
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From Myth to Fiction: The Saga of Hadingus
by Georges Dumezil Publisher Comments In this work the distinguished religious historian Georges Dumézil considers how the early mythology of a people can be creatively transposed into the epic of their origin or the "history" of their kings, or the source of their fiction. The...
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Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District
by Elias Lonnrot Review What distinguishes this work from other Kalevala translations is the fact that Professor Magoun presents a prose translation of the national folk epic of Finland, a translation which is accurate and scholarly in every detail...The translator makes his...
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Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson
by Sturluson And Young Publisher Comments Prose Edda is a work without predecessor or parallel. Snorri Sturluson feared that the traditional techniques of Norse poetics, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe...
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Norse Mythology; The Stormy Myths of the Nordic Gods
by Arthur Cotterell Publisher Comments All the unforgettable characters and myths of this stormy yet fascinating ancient culture are gathered in this comprehensive, lavish guide....
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Nordic Gods and Heroes (96 Edition)
by Padraic Colum Publisher Comments Rich selection of age-old legends concerning the gods and goddesses who dwell in Asgard, their problems with the mischievous Loki, the exploits of Odin and Thor, the story of Sigurd, the winning of Brynhild, the twilight of the gods and more. Enhanced...
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Scandinavian Mythology
by H R Ellis Davidson Description Includes biblographical references (p. 138) and index....
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Norse Myths
by K Crossley Holland
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