Research Catalog

Title

Gods and myths of northern Europe / H.R. Ellis Davidson.

Author

Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis.

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1990, c1964.

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Details

Description

251 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples.

Subjects

• Europe, Northern > Religion
• Mythology, Norse
• Mythology, Germanic

Note

• "Names and sources": p. 227-240.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The myth-makers -- The sources of our knowledge -- New light on the myths -- The world of the Northern gods: The Prose Edda -- The gods and their world -- Thor and the giants -- The doom of the gods -- The giants and the dwarfs -- Myths outside the Prose Edda -- The gods of battle: Odin, Lord of hosts -- The Germanic war gods -- The Valkyries of Odin -- The Berserks of Odin -- The worship of the war god -- The thunder god: Thor in the myths -- The temples of Thor -- The hammer of Thor -- The god of the sky -- Thor and his adversaries -- The gods of peace and plenty: The deity in the wagon -- Freyr, god of plenty -- Companions of Freyr -- The mother goddess -- The goddess Freyja -- The power of the Vanir -- The gods of the sea: Aegir and Ran -- Njord, god of ships -- The depths of the sea -- The gods of the dead: Odin and Mercury -- Odin as a shaman -- The realm of Odin -- The burial mound -- Thor and the dead -- The dragon and the dead -- The enigmatic gods: Bragi and Idun -- Mimir and Hoenir -- The twin gods -- Forseti -- Heimdall -- Loki -- Balder -- The beginning and the end: The world tree -- The creation of the world -- The end of the world -- Conclusion : the passing of the old gods.

ISBN

• 0140136274
• 9780140136272

OCLC

• 29336401
• SCSB-12320448

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library