Viking myths & sagas
Subtitle: retold from ancient Norse texts
By: Rosalind Kerven
Publisher: Talking Stone
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Morpeth, Northumberland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780953745470
Subjects: Norse Mythology; Norse Gods; Vikings; Folklore
Other titles: Viking myths and sagas
Description: Definitive, unique collection of 34 major Viking myths, heroic legends and historical sagas. Features tales of gods, giantesses, dwarfs, valkyries and ghosts; sagas of love and hate, the Viking discovery of America, tales that inspired Tolkien and Shakespeare. Also proverbs, spells, poems, riddles, detailed Notes and a comprehensive Glossary.