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Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
Palgrave Macmillan
November 2012
On Sale: October 30, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 0230338844
EAN: 9780230338845
Kindle: B008214WQW
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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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