Title: Almost insulting
Review: This book does not provide any sort of accurate depiction of the Northern European mythology and folklore that many of us enjoy reading about.Not only does this book not provide an accurate translation of many of the tales and gods, but the author combines the stories with his own unfounded opinions of the religion.He says numerous times in the book that the ancient Icelanders never actually believed in any of the tales they told, that everything was simply a story, and their pseudo-religion proves that.In addition he refers to them as "Aryans." Considering this term didn't come about until the psychic Madam Blavatsky started using it in the late nineteenth century, and it wasn't even an accurate term, I found it a bit confusing and annoying.I simply could not refer a worse and more inaccurate book to read on this beautiful subject.
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