Mythology & Folk Tales

Explore The World of Norse Mythology, Vikings, Magic & Runes

Join us on a discovery to the Marvels, Magic, Runes & Wonders of Norse Mythology, and learn from one of the most interesting civilizations ever known – The Vikings.

Included in this Captivating 3 Book Collection are:

Norse Mythology Captivating Stories & Timeless Tales of Norse Folklore. The Myths, Sagas & Legends of the Gods, Immortals, Magical Creatures, Vikings & MoreThe Vikings: Who Were The Vikings? Enter The Viking Age & Discover The Facts, Sagas, Norse Mythology, Legends, Battles & MoreNorse Magic & Runes: A Guide To The Magic, Rituals, Spells & Meanings of Norse Magick, Mythology & Reading The Elder Futhark Runes

The Tales are Epic, The Battles are Fierce & The Drama is Plentiful!

As you journey through this book collection, we will help you peel back the layers of history that surround these fascinating stories to take a peek at the myths, beliefs, customs, and traditions as they actually were.

Also in this book you will find:

Norse Magic & Runes: A Guide To The Magic, Rituals, Spells & Meanings of Norse Magick, Mythology & Reading The Elder Futhark Runes

Nowadays, Runes & Norse Magic are used as a method of connecting to one’s higher self. Or as a way of foretelling what the future may hold. Now don’t worry because you don’t have to be of Norse ancestry to use them. However you’ll have a far better understanding of their history, mythology, meanings and more through reading this book.

All This & Much More In This 3 Book Collection, including:

Stunningly Elaborate Mythologies, Stories & FolktalesFamous Viking Battles including The Legendary Battle of Stamford BridgeRunes, Symbols, Divination, Sacred Numbers, Casting, Elder Futhark & The Powers They WieldOld Norse Magic, Including The Magic Arts of: Seiðr, Spá and GaldrGods & Goddesses – Loki The Trickster, Thor God of Thunder & MoreWhat Happened to The Vikings & Why did They Disappear?How Norse Mythology Influenced Modern Pop Culture – Marvel, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Viking Metal & MoreThe Source of Norse Mythology, The Poetic Edda or ‘Royal Book’.Virtues and Values From The Vikings – Honor, Courage, Trust & MoreAnd much, much more..

Whether you are simply hungry for the history and mythology of the Norse and The Vikings, or if you are beginning to master the magic arts, then you will receive valuable information from this precious book collection.

So without any further ado, Read This Book

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09LB3PCZP
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (November 8, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 426 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8762363853
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.16 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.96 x 9 inches

Barnes & Noble Pub 2006 New York Edition. Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson was an English antiquarian and academic, writing in particular on Germanic paganism and Celtic paganism. Davidson used literary, historical and archaeological evidence to discuss the stories and customs of Northern Europe. Gods and Myths of Northern Europe is considered one of the most thorough and reputable sources on Germanic mythology. Like many of her publications, it was credited under the name H. R. Ellis Davidson. Davidson was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and was president of the Council of the Folklore Society from 1974 to 1976, and served on the council from 1956 to 1986. Davidson has been cited as having “contributed greatly” to the study of Norse mythology.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Barnes & Noble (January 1, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0760700354
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0760700358
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.51 x 8.43 inches

She’s cursed with a dead witch’s power over fate, he’s a heartless demigod born for revenge and redemption. Once her enemy, now a conflict of interest. The fate of the Nine Realms dangles on a dangerously thin thread.

Fate was cruel enough by dealing Ailsa with a fatal illness. But when her father and sisters are killed at war, she becomes the Last Daughter in a long line of shieldmages. This power comes with a price, however, coincidentally getting her kidnapped by an elfin she’s only heard of through legends.

Vali’s realm is dying, inflicted by the black magic, sedir, and the only way to heal his land is by delivering the Tether to Odin, king of the gods. When he finds this power bound inside a mortal woman, he is forced to bring her and her shapeshifting wolven back to his home in Alfheim.

But their journey across the Tree of Life is perilous, and betrayal is imminent. Vali and Ailsa must depend on each other for survival, a mutual dependency that turns into a passionate love affair. With Odin waiting on this promised power, a kindred spirit found in her enemy, and a dark threat neither Ailsa nor Vali intended to find in the bright lands of Alfheim, what started as a simple quest has turned into a fight to save all gods, mortals, and fae alike. Vikings meets magic in this fresh retelling of Norse Mythology.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Midnight Tide Publishing (August 19, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 394 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 195867303X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1958673034
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.17 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.99 x 8.5 inches

This is a compilation of legendary sagas that survive only in a fragmentary or reduced state. It begins with the Fragment of a Saga of Certain Ancient Kings of Denmark and Sweden, an account of the lives of such legendary conquerors as Ivar Wide-Grasp, his grandson and successor Harald Wartooth, and the latter’s vanquisher and successor, Sigurd Hring, father of the more famous Ragnar Shaggy-breeches. The saga as we have it lacks both a beginning and an end, although context has been provided from other sources that relate the reigns of the same legendary kings. The climax of the saga must be the titanic Battle of Bravellir, a legendary battle that occurred sometime before the Viking Age (its dates are notoriously uncertain), brought about when the then king of Denmark and Sweden, Harald Wartooth, in his old age, made war on his son in law Sigurd Hring. To this battle came heroes and warriors and Vikings, some of whom have sagas of their own, like Odd the Wanderer (aka Arrow Odd, whose saga is also available in this series),or Starkad the Old, whose own saga has been lost, (assuming it was ever written ), but who appears like a dark shadow on the edges of other narratives. Blessed by Odin, cursed by Thor, this huge, dour warrior battled his way through lifetimes in the legendary age, and the battle of Bravellir was only one of the occasions in which he showed his strength.Sigurd Hring was the victor at Bravellir, and after a long reign, mortally wounded in battle, he set sail in a burning ship—one of the only two ‘Viking funerals’ known to the sagas, the other being that of Haki. The saga breaks off, however, before this point. Where it would have gone after that remains a mystery, although the next logical step would be to relate the story of Ragnar Shaggy-breeches, whose own saga happily has survived.Also present in this volume are three other narratives concerning legendary Scandinavian kings, traditionally linked together under the title ‘Of Fornjot and his Family.’ Firstly comes the story of Fornjot and his sons, Hler, Logi and Kari. Hler gave his name to the Danish isle of Laeso (Hlesey) and appears elsewhere in Norse mythology as the sea giant Aegir, husband of Ran who catches drowned sailors in her net. Logi’s name means ‘fire’ (in the Prose Edda he bests Loki in an eating contest) and Kari is a personification of the wind. Fornjot’s own name is uncertain, but it could mean ‘the old giant’. They are clearly giants, and mythological personages, and their descendants are equally legendary. The same story reappears, however, at the beginning of the Saga of the Orkneymen, and this version follows the first in this volume. We conclude with the story of the kings of the Upplands (Opland in modern Sweden) descendants of that Ingjald the Ill-Advised who is mentioned in the earlier Fragment. Although this account does not mention him, the same line produced Harald Finehair, who was first king of all Norway, and whose legendary lineages take up much of the first of the three stories.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CL16NNCT
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (October 13, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 98 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8864280416
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.23 x 8 inches

A collection of mythological stories from the Vikings, including gods and goddesses such as Odin, Thor, Freya, and Loki.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fall River Press (January 1, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 318 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1435166760
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1435166769
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.57 x 0.87 x 9.17 inches

The Sagas of Ketil Trout and Grim Hairy-cheek are two of the Sagas of the Men of Hrafnista, stories written in medieval Iceland about the legendary Norwegian ancestors of contemporary families. Like the rest of the Legendary Sagas, they are fantastic in tone, featuring trolls and other monsters. The Saga of Grim Hairy-cheek is in many ways a sequel to The Saga of Ketil Trout, as Grim Hairy-cheek is the son of Ketil Trout. He receives his unattractive epithet in his father’s saga when his mother Hrafnhild catches sight of a hairy Lapp while conceiving him with Ketil. Ketil Trout’s own nickname derives from his modesty or naivety when referring to a dragon he slays.Ketil Trout is of a common type of hero in Norse saga, and indeed in international folklore; the ‘coalbiter’ or male Cinderella, who lazes by the hearth rather than taking part in domestic tasks until spurred on to adventure and heroic deeds, from which he receives ‘a name that will never die beneath the heavens.’ The despair of his father, considered a fool by other people on Hrafnista (modern Ramsta in Norway), he proves himself on a series of expeditions into the North where he slays dragons and fights trolls. Along the way he meets and marries Hrafnhild, daughter of Bruni, brother of the Lapp king Gusir. He slays Gusir, Bruni’s rival, and obtains the magical arrows Flaug, Hremsa and Fifa and Dragvendill ‘best of swords.’ With these accomplishments he goes on to prove himself a hero among his own people, but he is faithless in love, and bad blood exists between his people and those of his abandoned wife Hrafnhild. Grim Hairy-cheek inherits his father’s lands and weapons, but also, it seems, something of his lucklessness in love and propensity for cohabiting with trolls. His saga is rather shorter, and episodic in nature; its most memorable episode contains elements reminiscent of Arthurian romance (the Loathly Lady motif) and later Scandinavian folklore (similar trolls appear in East of the Moon, West of the Sun). Grim himself is the father of Odd the Traveller, or Arrow-Odd, whose much longer saga is a sequel to his own story. ‘And this story shall also be told.’

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CLF18TQT
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (October 8, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 49 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8863790251
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.68 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.12 x 8 inches

Written as a kind of sequel to The Saga of the Volsungs, and following directly on from the former in some manuscripts, The Saga of Ragnar Shaggy-breeches exists in an uneasy half-and-half world between legend and history. Although some characters in The Saga of the Volsungs are based on historical persons, its central hero, Sigurd the Dragonslayer, is a mythic superhuman. Ragnar Shaggy-breeches, however, and his ambitious sons, Ivar the Boneless and his brothers, are identifiable as historical figures – although Ragnar himself is as much of a dragonslayer as Sigurd, and his sons fight even stranger monsters. The link between Sigurd and Ragnar is a little tenuous, and entirely unhistorical; Aslaug, the daughter of Sigurd and Brynhild becomes Ragnar’s second wife under bizarre circumstances. Ivar himself appears in English history as a Viking invader who killed various Anglo Saxon kings, including the St Edmund after whom Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk gets its name. In the saga, however, his transformed into a cunning trickster who uses a trick common to Germanic origin legends to become the founder of London. His father Ragnar is held to be based on a historical Viking leader who besieged Paris, while his murderer Ella is also historical – although there is no reason to believe they ever met, let alone that Ella consigned Ragnar to death in a snake pit. It is clear that the Christian Scandinavians of the High Middle Ages, the period during which the sagas achieved their written form, were ashamed of their heathen ancestors’ excesses, and Ivar’s character in particular receives a whitewash. In the end, he becomes a kind of saintly figure himself, whose uncorrupted body magically guards England from invasion until William the Conqueror disinters him.The saga itself is something of a hotchpotch, with its anonymous author apparently drawing upon writers such as the Dane Saxo Grammaticus and the Norman Dudo of San Quentin, and it has never had the literary acclaim of The Saga of the Volsungs. Nevertheless, it has been adapted on several occasions in recent decades, being the basis for the 1958 film The Vikings, and more recently the Vikings TV series. Both of these adaptations have been criticised on grounds of historic accuracy, but when their source is taken into account, with its wild and unlikely legendary narrative, they seem very sober in comparison. To do the saga justice would require the talents of more idiosyncratic filmmakers; a Ray Harryhausen, if not a Terry Gilliam, would be required to adequately realise Sibilia, the giant troll-cow whose frenzied mooing drives her enemies insane…

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CKS8C77T
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (October 8, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 138 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8863788999
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.32 x 8 inches

The stories of Thor, Odin and Loki are familiar to most of us. Many people know that the Norse gods fought against giants and were ultimately betrayed by Loki the trickster. The end of the world and the death of the gods in a grim battle called Ragnarok has also found its way into popular culture. Ideas taken from Norse mythology are frequently found in modern fantasy and science fiction – such as elves, dwarfs and undead warriors rising from an unquiet grave, for example. Norse mythology is rich in adventure and ideas about creation, death and the afterlife. Norse Myths takes a wide-ranging approach, examining the creation stories of the Norse world, the monsters and the pantheons of the deities, including such figures as Heimdall, Freya and Baldr. It looks at the sagas and the Prose and Poetic Eddas, which tell of real and imagined people, featuring both heroic tales and humorous escapades. The book also examines how Norse myths were interpreted in a Christianized Europe and how their motifs influenced medieval German writers and, in turn, were used in the modern world in very different ways, by the likes of composer Richard Wagner and in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. Illustrated with 180 color and black & white artworks and illustrations, Norse Myths is an engaging and highly informative exploration of a rich mythology that still resounds today.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sterling Publishing (March 1, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1782743324
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1782743323
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.01 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.3 x 1 x 9.7 inches

Character-forming moral fables, Viking and Nordic folk and fairy tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the practical common sense of the everyday. Good folk are rewarded for their hard work, the honest and the faithful are valued by the gods: treasured tales from Hans Christian Andersen, such as ‘The Little Match Girl’, and less well known stories such as ‘Katie Woodencloak’ (a Norwegian Version of Cinderella) by Asbjørnsen & Moe are some of the heartwarming pieces in this new selection for the modern reader.

FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Flame Tree 451 (October 12, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1839647833
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1839647833
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.13 x 0.7 x 7.75 inches