Summary
Norse Myths and Short Stories
The Nordics are just as famous for their stories and myths as they were for their Viking raids.
The abundance of literature they left behind is full of captivating, dark and heroic stories that sometimes seem so realistic that they seem like modern novels, while some of these stories are sometimes extremely gruesome and even brutal.
These are old stories, transmitted orally for hundreds of years before they were written down during the 12th century onwards. Stories in which the boundaries between the mundane and the supernatural, the human and the divine are often blurred and often cross from one to the other.
Before you are stories in which numerous deities, giants, dwarves, dragons, heroines and heroes, villains, cutthroats and robbers, crazed berserkers and warlike Varangians, poets called skalds, prophetesses and many other underground creatures shunned and the bravest.
Open the cover of this amazing book and walk through the worlds of Yggdrasil, the tree of the worlds where the one-eyed Odin and his wife Frigg, the beautiful Freyja, the guardian of Asgard Heimdall, but also the main villain Loki who joined forces with his children – the wolf Fenrir, the snake Jormungand and the ruler of the world of the dead Hela, await you, to start the end of the world known as Ragnarok.
From the moment you open this book. book to the last page - be on your guard, just as those who were hundreds of years before you were when they told these same stories.
For they never called this world quite hostile.
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