Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology
10 best books like Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology (Mary H. Foster): The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths, Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas, Popular Tales from the Norse, Old French Fairy Tales, British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881), Viking Tales, The Superstitions of Witchcraft, In Destiny's Hands: Five Tragic Rulers, Children of Maria Theresa, A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony, The Religion of the Ancient Celts
| Author | Padraic Colum |
| ISBN | 0689868855 |
Before time as we know it began, gods and goddesses lived in the city of Asgard. Odin All Father crossed the Rainbow Bridge to walk among men in Midgard. Thor defended Asgard with his mighty hammer. Mischievous Loki was constantly getting into trouble with the other gods, and dragons and giants walked...
| Author | Hélène A. Guerber |
| ISBN | 0486273482 |
Over the centuries, Northern mythology has exerted much influence on Western customs, language, and literature. Its principal theme of the perpetual struggle of the beneficent forces of nature against the injurious, and its twin characteristics of dark tragedy and grim humor, tinge much European...
| Author | George Webbe Dasent |
Translated from Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe's collection. You may have heard of this particular collection; J.R.R. Tolkien cites it in "On Fairy-Stories." And you definitely know one tale: "The Three Billy-Goats Gruff."
There are a lot more here. Has some animal...
| Author | Comtesse de Ségur |
| ISBN | 1410105695 |
CONTENTS Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon Blondine; Blondine Lost; The Forest of Lilacs; Blondine's Awakening - Beau-Minon; Bonne-Biche; Blondine's Second Awakening; The Parrot; Repentance; The Tortoise; The Journey and Arrival Good Little Henry The Poor Sick Mother; The Crow, the Cock,...
1881. In a certain sense Wales may be spoken of as the cradle of fairy legend. It is not now disputed that from the Welsh were borrowed many of the first subjects of composition in the literature of all the cultivated peoples of Europe. In the ground it covers, while this volume deals especially with Wales,...
| Author | Jennie Hall |
| ISBN | 1599150042 |
Nights were long in Iceland winters of long ago. A whole family sat for hours around the fire in the middle of the room. That fire gave the only light. Shadows flitted in the dark corners. Smoke curled along the high beams of the ceiling. The children sat on the dirt floor close by the fire. The grown people...
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
| Author | Justin C. Vovk |
| ISBN | 0557060214 |
Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress and Austri-Hungarian Queen in the 1700's, had 14 children, five of whom became rulers in their own right across Europe. This book follows the stories of those five children with bits and pieces of their other siblings, their children, the history and political landscape...
A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
| Author | Charles A. Siringo |
| ISBN | 0140437517 |
After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle king, Shanghai Pierce, and began a life that embraced all the hard work, excitement, and adventure readers today associate with the cowboy era. He "rid the Chisholm trail," driving 2,500 heads of cattle...
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
| Author | John Arnott MacCulloch |
The Pros and Cons of the Book:
The Cons:
1. The book was not intended for the beginner. Most of the time the author assumes you know what and who he is talking about.
2. It was written at an early stage when not a lot of archeological sites were found about the Celts.
3. Some of the information...
Legends of the Egyptian Gods: Hieroglyphic Texts and Translations
| Author | E.A. Wallis Budge |
| ISBN | 0486280225 |
Former Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was one of the great Egyptologists of the century and author of a host of books on ancient Egypt. For this collection, he carefully selected nine of the most interesting and important Egyptian legends...
Essential Asatru: Walking the Path of Norse Paganism
| Author | Diana L. Paxson |
| ISBN | 0806527080 |
A Journey to Fulfillment and RenewalIn Essential Asatru, renowned author and priestess Diana Paxson demystifies an ancient, rich, and often misunderstood religion, and offers a practical guide for its modern followers.Filled with clear, concise instructions on living Asatru every day, this...
| Author | T.W. Rolleston |
| ISBN | 0486265072 |
This splendidly illustrated study by the distinguished Celticist T. W. Rolleston masterfully retells the great Celtic myths and illuminates the world that spawned them. Focusing principally on Irish myths, the book first takes up the history and religion of the Celts, the myths of the Irish invasion...
The Heroes of Asgard Tales from Scandinavian Mythology
This is a facsimile reprint of an early 20th-century edition (the first edition was published in 1870). 2000 is my best guess as to the year I finally read it, but I actually got a remaindered copy for Christmas in 1983, having pointed it out to my wife as a gift I'd like. (As you can tell from this, I own enough...
Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic: Natural Magic
In the last half of 1509 and the first months of 1510, Cornelius Agrippa, known in his day as a Magician, gathered together all the Mystic lore he had obtained by the energy and ardor of youth and compiled it into the elaborate system of Magic, in three books, known as Occult Philosophy, the first book of...
The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies
| Author | Catherine Ann White |
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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages
| Author | Sabine Baring-Gould |
This work does its best to discredit original folklore and mythologies by claiming they were naught but a bad influence on the later 'purified,' Christianized versions so heavily employed by the Church to lure a more pagan following into the pews. In fact, the author asserts their influence should...
Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle
Subterranean Press bundles together all of their John Scalzi titles into one easy-to-buy special this November:
How I Proposed To My Wife: An Alien Sex Story
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Questions for a Soldier
The Sagan Diary
The Tale of the Wicked
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You're...
A Book of Myths
Author: Jean Lang
Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons
Published In: New York
Pgs: 244
REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
Summary:
Man stretches out his hands in the endeavour to understand. Through the human, we reach for the divine. The old peoples...
The Book of Talismans, Amulets and Zodiacal Gems
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Various is the correct author for any book with multiple unknown authors, and is acceptable for books with multiple known authors, especially if not all are known or the list is very long (over 50).
If an editor is known, however, Various is not necessary. List the name of the editor as the primary...
A Short History of Scotland
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I really didn’t get on with this book. I’m glad it was so short. IU really couldn’t have waded through many more pages. I liked the cover. I usually never judge a book but its cover. I’ve read some amazing books with not so great covers and...
Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
| Author | William Walker Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1775414108 |
There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings. I refer to the sense of the presence of other living things, separate and apart from the operation of any of the five ordinary physical senses....
| Author | Ernest Bramah |
| ISBN | 1595478884 |
"Ho, illustrious passers-by!" says Kai Lung as he spreads out his embroidered mat under the mulberry-tree. "It is indeed unlikely that you could condescend to stop and listen to the foolish words of such an insignificant and altogether deformed person as myself. Nevertheless, if you will but retard...
Nine Worlds of Seid Magic: Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North-European Paganism
| Author | Jenny Blain |
| ISBN | 0415256518 |
This accessible study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems evoked in the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas have been rediscovered and reinvented by groups in Europe and North America. The book examines the phenomenon of altered consciousness...
