Product Description

With over 700 articles, this work explores a rich vein of world mythology and provides an insight into the folklore tradition that has inspired talents such as Wagner and Tolkien. Outline accounts are given of principal myths and legends, backed by extensive quotation from early Norse literature.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #164805 in Books
• Published on: 1997-02-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 223 pages

About the Author
Andrew Orchard was born in North London in 1964, and is a sometime Scholar of both Exeter College, Oxford, and Queens' College, Cambridge. He is currently University Lecturer in the Department of Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge, where he teaches Old English, Old Norse and Insular Latin as a fellow of Emmanuel College. In addition to producing a wide range of scholarly works on the literature and learning of the medieval period, he has led walking tours in the mountains of Iceland for a number of years. This is his third book.

Customer Reviews

A must have book for they who belive in the old norse gods
This is a great book with much information from the old norse religion, and the colection of dwarf names and Odinn names are just the best i have seen. Go and get this book today.