![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But, as the author explains in his introduction, Norse mythology is the opposite of Greek not only in terms of climate, or the scantiness of the surviving material, but also in its spirit, that "air of 'Northernness'" which makes it so appealing as nights draw in and the cold begins to bite. First published in 1960, it is in many ways a companion volume to Lancelyn Green's sun-dappled Tales of the Greek Heroes, published two years before. But despite the cruelty of this world, there was "love, and honour, courage and endurance … mighty deeds to be done and bards or skalds to sing of them".Īssembled from the Volospa, the Prose Edda, the Volsunga Saga and other ancient texts, Myths of the Norsemen tells the story of the world from creation to apocalypse, with plenty of daring feats and low cunning along the way. For the "much-enduring" men and women who lived in the north, Lancelyn Green continues, "it seemed that the very elements were giants who fought against them with wind, frost and snow as weapons". ![]()
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