A Handbook of Norse Mythology

The north mythology – Scandinavian, to be more exact – appears an independent and rich-developed branch of Germanic mythology, which, by-turn, originates in ancient pre-Indo-European history. This book covers mainly the Norwegian Swedish, Danish, Greenlandic, and Icelandic myths. From the author’s preface: This popular presentation of the myths and sagas which took shape here in the North but whose foundation is common property of all the people who speak a Gothic-Germanic language, first appear