Norse mythology

304 Pages·2017·2.132 MB·English

by  Gaiman, Neil

The Norse myths are woven into the
fabric of our storytelling — from the novels
of Tolkien to the worlds of comics and
superheroes. They are also an inspiration
for Neil Gaiman’s own award-winning,
bestselling fiction.
Now Gaiman reaches back through time to
the original source stories in an epic and
electrifying retelling of the great Norse
myths - thrilling tales of dwarfs and frost
giants, of treasures and magic, and of Asgard,
home to the gods: Odin the all-father, highest
and oldest of the gods; his mighty son Thor,
whose hammer, Mjollnir, was forged by dwarfs
and makes the mountain giants tremble; Loki,
wily and handsome, reliably unreliable in his
lusts; and Freya, more beautiful than the sun of
the moon, who gives short shrift to the gods,
giants and ogres who seek to control her.
Gaiman’s gods are thoroughly alive on the
page — irascible, visceral, playful, passionate —
as he leads us from the beginning of everything
to Ragnarok, the inescapable final downfall
of the gods . . .
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First published in Great Britain in February 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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