Gudarnas fall

Gudenes fall #1

by Cornelius Jakhelln

Cornelius Jakhellns roman - eller sagaroman, som det står på titelsidan - Gudarnas fall handlar om den slutgiltiga striden mellan gudar och människor år 999 e.F. (efter Fallet), det vill säga efter asagudarnas fall från jorden ner i underjorden, besegrade av människorna.
Gudarna - asarna - har vistats i underjordens mörker i snart tusen år. Den högste guden Oden förbereder nu för återkomsten till jorden, närmare bestämt till Island, och för hämnden på människorna. Vid sin sida har han dvärgen Hornbore, kallad Silverdvärgen eftersom hans hud är täckt helt med silver.
Oden sänder upp Hornbore till människornas rike för att rekognoscera inför gudarnas återkomst.
Samtidigt smids planer som går stick i stäv med Odens, av dennes fiender. En annan dvärg, Regin, uppfinner en ny varelse som han kallar bionter, ett slags människoliknande robotar. Regin försöker intressera Oden för de möjligheter som finns i en vidare utveckling av bionterna, men han blir bara förlöjligad.
Rasande och sårad drar sig Regin undan och börjar i hemlighet att skapa en hel armé av bionter, i syfte att så småningom upprätta ett nytt rike, Bionia, med sig själv som härskare.
Slutstriden blir av världsomstörtande proportioner, ett sannskyldigt ragnarök

Genres: Fantasy

430 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Cornelius Jakhelln (born 1977 in Kristiansand), also known as Cornelius von Jackhelln, is a Norwegian vocalist, guitarist, musician, writer and poet.

Jakhelln has a master's degree in philosophie/lettres modernes from University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne and a master's degree in the philosophy of cognitive science with a minor in aesthetics from the University of Sussex. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D in philosophy and cognitive science from École des hautes études en sciences sociales and a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Oslo.

Reviews

[Tonje Beisland · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5 stjerner

[niina · Rating 2 out of 5]

I realy shouldn't read openly humoristic books, way too many times has it been proved I'm not into that at all. This story was based on Norse mythology and Gods, things I'm very interested in and hope to read more about, things that are sadly almost forgotten and abandonded, left behind, not written about too often. So I was expecting to really like this one, but the genre proved, again, to not be to my tastes, which naturally kind of ruined the whole experience.

The language in the Finnish translation was fun and there were some jokes I could wryly laugh at, but mostly I found myself fidgeting and hoping for chapters to close. Many times I felt the author took too long with one subject, but thankfully all the chapters were very different and circled around very different things in the lives of the Gods, even though they all related to Ragnarök and the second rising of the Gods, the wish of a Great New World, thus adding up to the base plot. I feel I got a well-rounded, overall view on the Norse Gods, so that was fun and interesting, and then there was quite a lot of intertextuality and references to our world today, so the feel of the book remained contemporary, which makes this more approachable even if one isn't familiar with the subject beforehand.

I guess I could sum up my feelings about this book stating "this could have been fun if I was into that".

[irl_21 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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