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Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Katherine Marie Olley
Categories: Kinship
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-19 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin.
Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: John McKinnell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: DS Brewer

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Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the Dead. A particular, recu
Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Margaret Clunies Ross
Categories: Sagas
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-16 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving writte
From Asgard to Valhalla
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Heather O'Donoghue
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-27 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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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,
Viking & Norse Mythology
Language: en
Pages: 143
Authors: Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Categories: Europe, Northern
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher:

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One of a series about world myths and legends, this book describes the many myths associated with the Vikings. Through an examination of archaeological artifact