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Also released as The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-025869-8. d'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar (1967). "d'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths". New York, New York Review of Books. Munch, Peter Andreas (1927). Norse Mythology: Legends of Gods and Heroes, Scandinavian Classics. Trans.
In 1967, they published Norse Gods and Giants, based on the Prose Edda and Poetic Edda. [7] The 154-page book presents 30 Norse myths and includes most of the basic stories of the Norse pantheon. [8] D'Aulaires' Trolls was one of The New York Times Book Review outstanding books of 1972. It was also a National Book Award finalist. [9]
[53] [55] The rise to prominence of male, war-oriented gods such as Odin, relative to protective female gods with a closer association to fertility and watery sites, has been proposed to have taken place around 500 CE, coinciding with the development of an expansionist aristocratic military class in southern Scandinavia. [56]
Norse Gods and Giants is a children's book written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire and published by Doubleday in 1967. [1] It was reissued by Doubleday in 1986 as d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants [2] and by New York Review Books in 2005 as d'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths. [3] [4]
Horses (like gods, plants and people) embody the forces of the cosmos and nature. [4] In 1930, W. Steller postulated the existence of an original Germanic horse-god. [ 5 ] The first real study on the subject was Gutorm Gjessing's Hesten i forhistorisk kunst og kultus (1943), in which he develops the idea of the horse as an ancient symbol of ...
Viking is made jarl by the king and Halfdan becomes the king's hersir. The two groups of sons are highly competitive against each other. In a brutal ball game, they beat and maim each other, breaking each other's arms. A son of Viking, near death, slays a son of Njorfe. Viking scolds this son and sends him to an island in Lake Werner.
Norse Mythology is a 2017 book by Neil Gaiman, which retells several stories from Norse mythology. In the introduction, Gaiman describes where his fondness for the source material comes from. In the introduction, Gaiman describes where his fondness for the source material comes from.
The Book Cover Archive "Decorated Publishers Bindings-Grand Valley State University Archives and Special Collections". Archived from the original on 2013-01-06. – containing photographs of decorated publisher bindings from the 1870s to 1930. Historical book cover design gallery (archived 10 January 2007)