Title: I am not convinced
Product review: This book tries to present itself as an academic study into the Goddess in Norse tradition. The cover, typefont and lay out with footnotes all try to ooze 'academic research' but it is not. What it is, is a work that tries to construct a primeordeal Norse Goddess from a tradition that is - perhaps even more than any other western pagan tradition - polytheist and animist.The bibliography contains too many titles by Llewellyn to be taken seriously as an academic research. From an academic research I expect original material, from disciplines like theology, history, archeology, antropology, but not work that derives from popular science.Some lines of thought - like those concerning Ygdrassil - are interesting, but generally I think it's rather too much wishful thinking and constructionwork. The conclusions that the author draws from her data are not as selfevident as she would have them.I am not convinced
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