Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia

5 best books like Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia (E.O.G. Turville-Petre): Man and His Symbols, Njal's Saga, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas, Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas

Man and His Symbols

Author	C.G. Jung
ISBN	0440351839

My university professors never introduced me to Carl Jung. I understand why, I guess, but it's a shame that I didn't read Jung's work until now. Jungian psychology is amazing. It addresses the unconscious and the "self"/"psyche" in a unique and enlightening way. And, unlike most other psychologists,...

Njal's Saga

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0140447695

Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control....

Gods and Myths of Northern Europe

Author	Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
ISBN	0140136274

Tiw, Woden, Thunor, Frig. these ancient northern deities gave their names to the very days of our week. Nevertheless, most of us know far more of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and the classical deities. Recent researches in archaeology and mythology have added to what was already a fairly consistent...

Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas

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...

Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas

Author	Unknown
ISBN	0192835300

This collection is best reviewed as individual stories, which is after all what they are. Some of the characters and places are in common between the individual sagas but from a reader point I feel they are discrete.
Having read a few sagas I can say that the editors and translators are what make or...