Sagas of the Norsemen Viking and German myth
Includes Gods, Goddesses, the Viking and Germanic world, tales of myths and more.
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Time-Life Books,
©1997.
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| Series: | Myth and mankind.
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Table of Contents:
- The Viking and Germanic world. The Germanic peoples
- Witnesses from the earth
- Heroic poetry
- Medieval literature
- Picture essay: The Oseburg ship burial
- Gods of war and destiny. The Aesir
- Odin, god of war and magic
- Thor, god of thunder
- Loki, companion to the gods
- The shadowy pantheon
- Picture essay: The art of warfare
- Lords of fertility and prosperity. The war between the Aesir and Vanir
- Njord and the bounty of the sea
- The mighty ocean
- Feyr, lord of fertility
- The passionate goddess
- Goddesses and the fates of men
- Triumph of the hero. Legends and themes
- Bothvar Bjarki, the battle bear
- The death of Beowulf
- Tannhàˆuser, the minstrel
- The Volsung heroes
- The gold of the Nibelungs
- Picture essay : Viking and Christian art
- Gudrun of the Hegelings
- Starkad, hero and traitor
- Grettir the outlaw
- Dietrich of Bern and his champions
- How the Lombards came to Italy
- Creation and the doom of the gods. The creation of the universe
- The three levels of existence
- Picture essay: Sacrifice and burial
- The death of Balder
- The end of the world
- The Nordic legacy.
