Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs
10 best books like Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs (John Lindow): The Norse Myths, D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt, Exploring the Northern Tradition: A Guide to the Gods, Lore, Rites, and Celebrations From the Norse, German, and Anglo-Saxon Traditions, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America, The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, A Dictionary of Northern Mythology, Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings, From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths
| 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,...
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths
The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends, telling stories of Odin the All-father, Thor the Thunder-god and the theft of his hammer, Loki the mischievous god of the Jotun Race, and Ragnarokk,...
Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt
| Author | Geraldine Pinch |
| ISBN | 0195170245 |
From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination. Now, in Egyptian Mythology, Geraldine Pinch offers a comprehensive introduction that untangles...
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 | 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...
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0140441549 |
One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Grænlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga,...
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':...
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 | Heather O'Donoghue |
| ISBN | 1845113578 |
Whether they focus on Thor's powerful hammer, the mysterious valkyries, the palatial home of the gods - Asgard - or ravenous wolves and fierce elemental giants, the Norse myths are packed with vivid incident. But at the centre of their cosmos stands a gnarled old ash tree from which all distances and...
| Author | Arthur Cotterell |
| ISBN | 0831773243 |
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| Author | James Campbell |
| ISBN | 0140143955 |
This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins, works of art,...
| 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...
