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- 19 August, 2019: Reviewed
Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding and pillaging Vikings. Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name of Snorri Sturluson. Like Homer, Snorri was a bard, writing down and embellishing the folklore and pagan legends of medieval Scandinavia. Unlike Homer, Snorri was a man of the world a wily political power player, one of the richest men in Iceland who came close to ruling it, and even closer to betraying it In "Song of the Vikings," award-winning author Nancy Marie Brown brings Snorri Sturluson s story to lifein a richly textured narrative that draws on newly available sources."