Matt Clayton
ASIN: B01KOUZZ64
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 83
Captivating Stories of the Gods, Sagas, and HeroesThis book gives an overview of Norse mythology, telling some of the stories of the gods, giants and other creatures of that lost era before history began.Though the world came to know of the Norse and their legends through Roman interaction about the time of Christ, most of what we came to know were handed down from folk tales gathered by native writers like Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179–1241). This was from a time when the Norse had already been converted to Christianity. Some of what Sturluson wrote was clearly influenced by Christian beliefs of the time. As with all sources, we have to assume at least a little bit of bias was involved. The age of belief in the Norse gods had ended. We can only guess how much of those old beliefs were left out because they may have been incompatible with the new beliefs of Christendom. Sturluson gathered ...