Myths of the Norsemen

The whole of the Northern heaven: Odin and Thor, the golden-teared Freya, and the world’s ending in fire.

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About this edition

Here is the great cycle of Norse myth, told whole: the making of the world from fire and ice; Allfather Odin on his high seat with his ravens and his wolves; Thor and his hammer; the tricks and treason of Loki; Freya of the golden tears, weeping amber into the sea for her lost husband; the Norns at the roots of the world-tree; the Valkyrs bearing the slain to Valhalla. And, at the last, the Twilight of the Gods, when the old world burns and a new earth rises green from the waves.

First published in 1909, H. A. Guerber’s Myths of the Norsemen remains the most beloved retelling of the Eddas and Sagas in English: clear, stirring, and woven throughout with the very verses of the old scalds, and closing with a chapter comparing the Northern gods to those of Greece and Rome.

This edition sets Guerber’s full text, introduction and all twenty-nine chapters, afresh, bound behind an original painting.

Details

• H. A. Guerber (1859–1929)
• The complete 1909 text, introduction and all twenty-nine chapters
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 380 pages