Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #303418 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 124 pages

Synopsis
An Insightful Look at a Complex Deity Freyja, Lady, Vanadis: An Introduction to the Goddess examines Freyja, perhaps the best-known goddess of Norse mythology. Using original source material, extant writings, and scholarship the author builds an image of the goddess as she may have appeared to her followers in pre-Christian Northern Europe. Patricia Lafayllve then uses the knowledge she has compiled to speculate on aspects of modern worship of this complex deity.

Customer Reviews

What a waste of time & paper...
Do they just publish anything these days? This "book" is about 100 pages long and 40 of them are either blank, references, index and bibliography. So... let's judge the 60 pages that are the actual "book". It seems that the... ahem... author just read a bunch of books, took several information and put it together. It's full of speculation and opinions (and really bad poems)and neither informative nor interesting. Furthermore the method of writing is very essay like (it turns out the author is an english student so I can see why) and the illustrations are the equivalent of those of my 5 year old cousin. I was almost angry I spent money on something that almost put me off any further reading on the goddess or the nothern tradition. I wish I could have given it a negative rating. You have been warned!