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A re-telling of some Norse myths. At times I wondered who the target audience was because the language seemed overly simplified so maybe tweens or teens? Ultimately I didn't really care. I still enjoyed it.

3.75/5 🌕🌕🌕🌖🌑 #norsemythology #mythology #thor #odin #nonfiction

This is amazing. The sagas are laid out really well and easy to read. The way it is written is unputdownable, and it isn't too graphic that a child wouldn't be able to read it and enjoy it. I loved it and will definitely read it again. Of course, it is only a hand-picked selection of saga stories, and obviously, I cannot account for how true to the traditional sagas it is, but I think it's pretty close to what I've heard before.

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Poetic Edda: A New Translation by Carolyne Larrington
📖 The Case For Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity by Lee Strobel

#UniteAgainstBookBans #fREADom

(Odin be praised) These amazing texts from the 13th century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the Lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and the end of the world, etc.

It's like the prose edda but they are written more like poetry? Some parts dull as hell where they re-tell the same story 19 times (Sigmund!!!)

Snorri kept me from snorrin with this thrilling collection of tales where Thor constantly smashes his hammer on anyone he meets

I don‘t know, I tried. I just couldn‘t bring myself to care. This was my #bookspin for June, I think.

The vacation on a lakeshore is nice though!

#Naturalitsy #Midsummersolace

I found this article fascinating. I'm really getting into runes. I'd love to get crafty and make my own.
https://www.pagangrimoire.com/elder-futhark-rune-meanings/

Do you use them?