Entertaining and sometimes horrifying legends of gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, monsters and giants survive from pagan Scandinavia, even though the Norsemen were unable to write them down. Odin and Thor, Freyja and Loki, Sigurd the Volsung, Gudrun and Brynhild are the most famous of these mythical characters, whose stories were eventually recorded. With authority and wit, Professor Page retells the Norse legends and shows how complex and sometimes contradictory their traditions are. Yet it is through these ancient myths that we know how the Norsemen visualized the creation of mankind and the final ending of the world.
- ISBN10 0714120626
- ISBN13 9780714120621
- Publish Date October 1990 (first published 1 January 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 February 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint British Museum Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 80
- Language English