Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
10 best books like Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson): Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs, The Norse Myths, Exploring the Northern Tradition: A Guide to the Gods, Lore, Rites, and Celebrations From the Norse, German, and Anglo-Saxon Traditions, Laxdæla Saga, The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas, A Dictionary of Northern Mythology, Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings, The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, A History of the Vikings
| Author | John Lindow |
| ISBN | 0195153820 |
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...
| Author | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
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 prodigious drinking bouts, contests of strength,...
Exploring the Northern Tradition: A Guide to the Gods, Lore, Rites, and Celebrations From the Norse, German, and Anglo-Saxon Traditions
| Author | Galina Krasskova |
| ISBN | 1564147916 |
I got this book because 1. I am so sick of Wicca and 2. I thought it was time to investigate my Bavarian Swiss and Anglo-Saxon sides. (The Scots-Irish side can't take up all my reading time!)
It's a slim book, but I think it is good for beginners like me. She really describes the modern Heathen communities...
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0140442189 |
Written around 1245 by an unknown author, the Laxdaela Saga is an extraordinary tale of conflicting kinships and passionate love, and one of the most compelling works of Icelandic literature. Covering 150 years in the lives of the inhabitants of the community of Laxriverdale, the saga focuses primarily...
Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf's Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to have occurred in fifth-century Denmark. It tells of the exploits of King Hrolf and of his famous champions, including Bodvar Bjarki, the 'bear-warrior':...
| 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...
A Dictionary of Northern Mythology
| Author | Rudolf Simek |
| ISBN | 0859915131 |
For two and a half thousand years, from 1500 BC to AD 1000, a culture as significant as the classical civilisation of the Mediterranean world settled an immense area in northern Europe that stretched from Iceland to the Black Sea. But the sources of our knowledge about these societies are relatively...
Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings
| Author | Snorri Sturluson |
| ISBN | 0486263665 |
The is a revised update of an early Everyman edition of Snorri's Heimskringla that was originally translated by Samuel Laing in the 1840s. The revisions are done by Jacqueline Simpson and Peter Foote, who for some strange reason revise the prose texts and supply new introductions but leave Samuel Laing's...
| Author | Ronald Hutton |
| ISBN | 0192854488 |
As a dozen good reviews could not begin to provide a fair account of this book, I shall offer a few key points which caught my attention as introduction only.
At the outset I had hoped for a more 'traditionally' pagan account of the ancient seasonal festivals, their origins and meanings.
I...
| Author | Gwyn Jones |
| ISBN | 0192801341 |
"An utterly splendid book, quite the most brilliantly written, balanced, and explanative general work on the Vikings ever to appear in English or in any language."-- Scandinavian Studies
The subject of this book is the Viking realms, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, their civilization and...
| Author | Jesse L. Byock |
| ISBN | 0140291156 |
Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures...
| Author | E.O.G. Turville-Petre |
| ISBN | 0837174201 |
A comprehensive work on the major gods of the North and the religious practices of its peoples. It does have a scholarly style, but it wasn’t a difficult read. The introduction focuses on the authenticity and reliability of the primary (and fragmentary) sources of Norse Mythology: the Eddas and the...
| Author | Else Roesdahl |
| ISBN | 0140252827 |
Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together...
History and Lore (Our Troth, #1)
| Author | Kveldúlf Hagan Gundarsson |
| ISBN | 1419635980 |
Our Troth is the single most comprehensive book available on the reborn religion of Heathenry -- the pre-Christian religion of the Germanic peoples. First published in 1993 but out of print for years, Our Troth is back in print, featuring updates and additions from its original compiler, Kveldulf...
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...
