e99 Online Shopping Mall
Help | |
Home - Religion - Norse (Books) |
  | 1-20 of 100 | Next 20 |
click price to see details click image to enlarge click link to go to the store
1. Popular Tales from the Norse by Sir George Webbe Dasent | |
Paperback: 444
Pages
(2009-11-04)
list price: US$26.95 -- used & new: US$24.25 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1438529686 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (1)
Stories for all ages that you HAVEN'T HEARD BEFORE! (Well, most of them...) |
2. D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire | |
Hardcover: 155
Pages
(2005-07-10)
list price: US$24.95 -- used & new: US$13.83 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 159017125X Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (35)
D's Book of Norse Myths
D'Aulaires' Books
Wow! Kids love it AND educational!
Dull
Great book |
3. The Norse Myths (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) by Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(1981-07-12)
list price: US$17.95 -- used & new: US$9.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0394748468 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (41)
Aesir would have loved it
Norse Myths, Gods Of The Vikings
Informative book on the Old Gods
Okay, but not great
Best Introduction Novel for First Timers |
4. Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs by John Lindow | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(2002-10-17)
list price: US$24.95 -- used & new: US$14.50 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0195153820 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (15)
Perfect
Excellent book, custioms tax shamelessly high
Excellent Resource
Excellent reference
A great guide to Norse Gods and Heroes! |
5. The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson, Jesse L. Byock | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2006-01-31)
list price: US$16.00 -- used & new: US$8.68 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0140447555 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (12)
Deffinetive Norse mythology
A very enjoyable read
Excellent book
Norse Myth and Legend
Get the Faulkes translation first! |
6. Norse Gods and Goddesses (Dover Coloring Book) by Jeff A. Menges | |
Paperback: 32
Pages
(2004-04-19)
list price: US$3.95 -- used & new: US$0.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0486433374 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (2)
Wonderful
Love the pictures! and the Info! |
7. Norse Code by Greg Van Eekhout | |
Mass Market Paperback: 292
Pages
(2009-05-19)
list price: US$7.99 -- used & new: US$2.49 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0553592130 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (33)
Destiny can be hard to escape from
Fun, easy read
Awesome!
Not Your Average Valkyrie
Thought I hate it, found out I liked it |
8. The Norse Myths by Heilan Yvette Grimes | |
Paperback: 330
Pages
(2010-02-24)
list price: US$24.00 -- used & new: US$20.51 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1879196026 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description |
9. Celtic and Old Norse Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by Courtney Davis | |
Paperback: 48
Pages
(2000-09-08)
list price: US$6.95 -- used & new: US$3.43 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0486412296 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (5)
Disappointing
Excellent resource for artistic reference.
Christianized Celtic design Some of the items shown appear to match items that precede Roman times, others seem to coincide with Roman and early Christian times, and others are very similar to items discoved in Anglo-Saxon tombs like Sutton Hoo, or Viking sites in Scandanavia and are thus contemporary with the early Middle Ages. Some designs are found on spoons, horse collars, or weather vanes, while others are taken from church sculpture or graveyard crosses. As the elements shown are not categoried by historical period, or referenced or sourced, this is not the scholarly work that I hoped it might be. However, if you don't care it does not matter. I will be using the book for children's artwork projects this summer (i.e. coloring books).
a good resource for charted scrollwork
The Best in the Dover Group |
10. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby | |
Paperback: 68
Pages
(2010-07-12)
list price: US$9.99 -- used & new: US$9.99 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B003YL3D06 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description |
11. Favorite Norse Myths by Mary Pope Osborne | |
Paperback: 87
Pages
(2001-01)
list price: US$7.99 -- used & new: US$46.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0590480472 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (6)
great book for all ages
Grant - Grade 4
Fabulous
Okay It is more for the youger groups or people who want to know the basics of Norse myths. If you're looking to do a report or to become a Norse guru, I wouldn't recommend this book.
Excellent I learned next to nothing about Norse myths when I was a kid. My Swedish American husband checked this book out of the library to read to our 5 y.o. daughter. It was over her head then (7 y.o. is probably more appropriate), but hubby and I really enjoyed it. We've checked it out numerous times since, and probably should just buy it already! It's a fun referrence book. ... Read more |
12. From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths by Heather O'Donoghue | |
Paperback: 232
Pages
(2008-12-15)
list price: US$24.00 -- used & new: US$15.12 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1845118294 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (4)
Interesting but has some problems
Good Information Marred In Bias
The Ever-changing Face of the Northern Mythos
A Pleasure to Read |
13. An Introduction to Old Norse by E. V. Gordon | |
Paperback: 496
Pages
(1981-07-23)
list price: US$85.00 -- used & new: US$67.59 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0198111843 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (7)
An Introduction to Old Norse
A venerable classic--learn the language by your bootstraps Gordon was the text my class used many years ago when I took Old Norse in grad school.I still remember my professor pointing out all its inaccuracies and criticizing the author. Nonetheless, between Gordon, Zoega's dictionary (now available online), and a xerox of "Gunnlaug's Saga," we muddled through.Learning a language by parsing each word is tedious, but it does give one a sense of accomplishment. In addition to the grammar and literary selections, Gordon contains a lengthy historical introduction to Old Norse literature.It's out-of-date by now, but still a good place to start.As for the selections themselves, they provide a fairly broad overview."Hrafnkel's Saga," a gem of a character study, is given in its entirety. There are selections from Snorri and fromthe Vinland sagas, among other pieces.The only complaint that I have is that Gordon is a little light on the poetry.The humorous "Thrymskvida" (sorry about the spelling) and "The Waking of Angantyr," an eerie little piece not included in the standard eddic canon, are the major poems. Whether or not you use Gordon as your primary grammar, its selection of litearture makes it a worthy companion for the student of Old Icelandic.My copy is now battered and missing its spine, but it still has a place on my bookshelf.
yay!
Good, but here's another idea... What I recommend is this:Get yourself Stefán Einarsson's fine book, "Icelandic:Grammar, Texts, Glossary", which is set up in lessons for the beginner and which you can get real cheap here at Amazon.That book is modern Icelandic, so the readings aren't about Egill Skallagrímsson or Snorri's Edda, but not only is the Old Norse spirit very much alive in modern Iceland (and all the people very familiar with the old stories), but the language has changed extraordinarily little in the last thousand years (very very minor things), so that if you learn modern Icelandic even reasonably well (which you will from Einarsson), you can easily pick up the sagas with no problem. Then, when you've finished with his book, you can get Gordon, which will be much more enjoyable then.Alternatively, you can get the texts of lots of the sagas online from Icelandic sites and get hardcopy English versions here at Amazon to use as "ponies".(Hrafnkels saga is a good one to start with, or Snorra Edda.)Good luck!
But not for beginners After a brief introduction to Scandinavian history, the Viking expansion, and saga literature, the author gives about 160 pages of West Norse, normalized into classical Icelandic.Most of the selections are from the sagas, and they are well annotated, and a full vocabulary is included in the back of the book.There is also a section on what he calls "East Norse" (the Old Norse particular to Denmark, Norway and Sweden), and a small section dealing with the language of the runic inscriptions. There is a 40 or 50 page section where he presents the grammar, but it's more along the lines of an outline of the grammar.It's sufficient for someone who already has a good knowledge of Old English, OHG, or Gothic, but my hat's off to anyone with the determination to acquire a reading knowledge of the language from this grammatical sketch alone. There's the rub: where DO you get the introduction to Old Icelandic that will enable you to use this book with benefit?The superb learning grammar "Old Icelandic: an Introductory Course" by Valfells and Cathey is out of print.Kenneth Chapman wrote "Graded Readings and Exercises in Old Icelandic" about 35 years ago, but that's disappeared as well.Until either of those works is reprinted, or a new introduction is written, it's going to be tough. But none of this is meant to take anything away from Gordon's work; it's a wonderful, scholarly work.Problem is, you really do need to have something of a background before you use it. ... Read more |
14. Norse Magic (World Magic Series) by D.J. Conway | |
Paperback: 244
Pages
(1990-09-01)
list price: US$7.99 -- used & new: US$2.21 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0875421377 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (31)
Norse Flavored Wicca-Sounds Good!
Changed MY life!
Norse Magic Review
A starting point...
More Fluff |
15. NORSE GODS AND GIANTS (HC/1st/DJ) by Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar D'Aulaire | |
Hardcover: 161
Pages
(1967)
Isbn: 038507235X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
16. Usborne Illustrated Guide to Norse Myths and Legends by Cheryl Evan, Anne Millard | |
Paperback: 48
Pages
(1987-04)
list price: US$7.95 -- used & new: US$25.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0746000103 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (6)
Attention Grabbing Art
A favorite This was the book that got me interested in Norse legends and mythology.For those of you who don't know about it, I think it is for more interesting than the Greek or Roman myths that are all that most people know. This book is chock-full of some of the most interesting tales I've ever read.Even as an adult, I go back to it every so often to re-read some of the stories.It presents them in a way that even a kid can understand and enjoy.The art is also one of my favorite parts.The subjects definitely do not appear Norse (their only flaw), but the lavish scenes and rich colors more than make up for this.Whenever I think of a scene from Norse mythology, the Rodney Matthews's illustrations are the images that come to mind. This book will always be my standard for Norse mythology, and it will always have a place on my shelf.
Terrible Art
Excellent!!!
An interesting introduction to the Norse myths and legends |
17. D'Aulaire's Norse Gods & Giants by Ingri d'Aulaire | |
Paperback: 154
Pages
(1986-08-19)
list price: US$17.95 -- used & new: US$218.86 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0385236921 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (28)
Awesome collection
Not Free SF Reader
Its being reprinted at last!!!!!!!!!
A welcoming door into the Old Norse Worldview is closed!
A true classic |
18. Exploring The Northern Tradition: A Guide To The Gods, Lore, Rites And Celebrations From The Norse, German And Anglo-saxon Traditions (Exploring Series) by Galina Krasskova | |
Paperback: 220
Pages
(2005-05)
list price: US$14.99 -- used & new: US$10.19 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1564147916 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Readers will have the opportunity to explore the sacred stories of the various Heathen Gods like Odin, Frigga, Freya, and Thor and will be granted a look into the devotional practices of modern votaries. The most common devotional rite: the faining or blót is examined in rich detail with examples given for personal use. Additionally, readers are introduced to the concept of wyrd or fate, so integral to the Heathen worldview. Unlike many books on Heathenry, Exploring the Northern Tradition is not denomination specific, nor does it seek to overwhelm the reader with unfamiliar Anglo-Saxon or Norse terminology. For those new to Heathenry, Pagans who wish to learn more about the Norse Deities, or those simply interested in learning about this unique religion, this book is the perfect introduction. Customer Reviews (32)
insightful and educational. a good read to start out with.
Eclectic
Exploring the Northern Tradition
Good with a grain of salt.
Excellent beginners' information |
19. A New Introduction to Old Norse: I Grammar: 1 by Michael Barnes | |
Paperback: 282
Pages
(2008-01-01)
-- used & new: US$42.99 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0903521741 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
20. Essential Asatru: Walking the Path of Norse Paganism by Diana L. Paxson | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2006-12-01)
list price: US$12.95 -- used & new: US$7.20 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0806527080 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (19)
Good Intro to Norse Paganism
Seems A Good Introduction
Fluffy crap presenting itself as fact.
Great introduction
New to Asatru? Look no further! |
  | 1-20 of 100 | Next 20 |