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Myths of the Pagan North - The Gods of the Norsemen (Hardcover, New)
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Myths of the Pagan North - The Gods of the Norsemen (Hardcover, New)
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This is an engaging account of the world of the Vikings and their
gods. As the Vikings began to migrate overseas as raiders or
settlers in the late eighth century, there is evidence that this
new way of life, centred on warfare, commerce and exploration,
brought with it a warrior ethos that gradually became codified in
the Viking myths, notably in the cult of Odin, the god of war,
magic and poetry, and chief god in the Norse pantheon. The twelfth
and thirteenth centuries, when most of Scandinavia had long since
been converted to Christianity, form perhaps the most important era
in the history of Norse mythology: only at this point were the
myths of Thor, Freyr and Odin first recorded in written form. Using
archaeological sources to take us further back in time than any
written document, the accounts of foreign writers like the Roman
historian Tacitus, and the most important repository of stories of
the gods, old Norse poetry and the Edda, Christopher Abram leads
the reader into the lost world of the Norse gods.
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