Norse Mythology

Odin, Thor, Loki and Freya move through Neil Gaiman's retelling of the Norse legends with all their cunning and appetite intact. Gaiman works from the surviving Scandinavian sources and arranges the stories in sequence, from the shaping of the nine worlds to the end that the myths always promised. The telling is conversational and quick, which makes the material accessible to readers who have only met these gods through films and games, while staying close to what the old texts actually say. What the retelling delivers: • The Norse myths presented in narrative order rather than as scattered fragments • Familiar figures drawn with the humour and menace the sources give them • Prose pitched for general readers, with no background in mythology assumed • English edition printed under ISBN 9781526624055 Good for mythology readers, fantasy fans tracing where their favourite stories came from, and students after a readable starting point, stocked by Boipoka.