Norse Mythology

[Rek Law]

ooops ... have I killed another thread?

[d.]

nah, it moves slowly this one.

[MidnightBlue]

Originally Posted by Rek Law

When I was a kid I had a book from my Great Aunt on "Myths of Greece and Rome" and I read it over and over (it is still on the shelf but 150 years old and fragile) ..all that stuff about Uranus eating his kids and about Zeus as showers of gold and a Heracles and stuff ... then I found a book in the library on Norse Legends and I was blown away ...absolutely hooked .... in comparsion with the Greek stuff it was SO INVIGORATED ... so dynamic and vital ... and close to home whereas Greece and Rome and Mesopotamia and Egypt tales are alien and remote.

I had a similar experience; I had the D'aulaire books -- Greek Myths and Norse Gods and Giants. The Norse legends were much more interesting to me than the Greek.

[DakotaGypsy]

One liked the more human qualities of the Norse gods--and the fact that we mere humans could safely laugh at them.