From: cpshelle@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley)
Subject: Re: Intro to Norse Mythology book?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:56:59 GMT

rhoenes@PICASSO.OCIS.TEMPLE.EDU (Richard Hoenes) writes:
> 
> Can anyone recommend a good intro book on Norse Mythology?          
> (Something like Edith Hamilton's book on Greek/Roman 
> mythology.) Thanks

You should probably put Edith Hamilton down, she has a tendency to
bowdlerize her material.  Anyway, here're some references on norse
material:

[btw, anyone feel free to mail me comments on these books...]

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author   : Branston, B.
title    : Gods of the North
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publisher: Thames & Hudson  (1955) 1980
isbn     : 
call_no  : 
keys     : myth norse
comments : an interesting comparative survey of norse myth.  Branston is a 
         : romantic and occasionally loose with the evidence.
         : Topics:  Background;  In the Beginning;  Cosmography;  Aesir and
         : Vanir;  Asynjur;  Loki and his Brood;  Choosing the Slain;
         : Dynamic Mythology;  Tales of Odin and Thor;  Tales of other Gods
         : and Goddesses;  Ragnarok.
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author   : Branston, B.
title    : The lost gods of England
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publisher: Thames and Hudson (1957) 1974
isbn     : 0-500-11013-1
call_no  : BL 980.G7B7
keys     : myth norse
comments : easy to read and discursive.  as usual for Branston, it attempts
         : myth reconstruction, and goes for a swim in the North Sea.
         : Topics:  Wayland;  Wyrd;  Woden;  Thunor;  Frig;  Frey & Freya;
         : Balder.
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author   : Davidson, H. R. E.
title    : Scandinavian mythology
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publisher: Hamlyn 1969
isbn     : 0-600-03637-5
call_no  : BL 860.D384
keys     : myth norse
comments : 
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author   : Davidson, H. R. Ellis
title    : Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
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publisher: Penguin Books 1964 (1986)
isbn     : 
call_no  : 
keys     : myth norse
comments : 
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author   : MacDougall, H. A.
title    : Racial myth in English history: Trojans, Teutons, and Anglo-Saxons
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publisher: Harvest House 1982
isbn     : 0-874-51229-8
call_no  : DA 135.M15
keys     : myth folklore norse
comments : 
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author   : Steblin-Kamenskii, M. I.
title    : Myth
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publisher: Karoma 1982
isbn     : 0-897-20054-3
call_no  : BL 311.S7313
keys     : myth norse
comments : 
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author   : Turville-Petre, E. O. G.
title    : Myth and religion of the North; the religion of ancient 
         : Scandanavia
publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1964
isbn     : 
call_no  : BL 860.T8
keys     : myth norse
comments : a scholarly classic in the area.
         : Topics:  Odinn;  Thor;  Baldr;  Loki;  Heimdall;  Vanir;  other
         : deities;  kings;  heroes;  spirits;  religion.
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