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Also by Nancy Marie Brown:

The Real Valkyrie, September 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Song Of The Vikings, November 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Far Traveler, October 2007
Hardcover

SONG OF THE VIKINGS
By: Nancy Marie Brown

Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths

Palgrave Macmillan
November 2012
On Sale: October 30, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 0230338844
EAN: 9780230338845
Kindle: B008214WQW
Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding and pillaging Vikings. Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name of Snorri Sturluson. Like Homer, Snorri was a bard, writing down and embellishing the folklore and pagan legends of medieval Scandinavia. Unlike Homer, Snorri was a man of the world—a wily political power player, one of the richest men in Iceland who came close to ruling it, and even closer to betraying it… In Song of the Vikings, award-winning author Nancy Marie Brown brings Snorri Sturluson’s story to life in a richly textured narrative that draws on newly available sources.

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