Search Results for: Old Norse Mythology

"This book treats from the perspective of the series "World mythologies in theory and in everyday life" the body of texts from medieval Scandinavia, mostly Icel

This collection explores the theoretical and methodological foundations through which we understand Old Norse myths and the mythological world, and the medieval

Provides information on the gods, heroes, rituals, beliefs, symbols, and stories of Norse mythology.

The mythology of the Norse world has long been a source of fascination, from the first written texts of thirteenth-century Iceland up to the modern period. Most

The existing manuscripts of Old Norse mythology were written mainly by Christians, obscuring the pre-Christian oral histories. This book assembles comparisons f