Gudenes fall

Gudenes fall #1

by Cornelius Jakhelln

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Fra Underheimen forbanner de mytologiske heltene kristninga av Norden og det forfallet som følger. Odin vil opp for å ta tilbake makta over menneskene som dreiv han under jorda, men dessverre er det ikke bare religionen som står i veien. Dvergen Regin vil herske i Overheimen og utrydde Åsgård, Loke er som sedvanlig svikefull, og jotnene skifter tro hver uke. DnBB AS

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Norsk vinner av den store nordiske romankonkurransen! "Tårene renner, jei har vont for å se klart. Endeli går jei opp på sena, vor jei får en mikk i hånna. Så langt jei kan se sitter norner å åsynjer, dverger å sjemper, hirdmenn å dyr, springskallebrøle er høyere enn alt, å de er retta mot mei. Ijen er jei herre over Allheimen, de er derfor jei griner som en onge." I Gudenes fall får vi innblikk i de mytologiske helter og heltinners vanskelige liv. Fra Underheimen forbanner de kristningen av Norden og forfallet som fulgte. Odin vil opp og ut, for å ta makten over menneskene som drev ham under jorden. Dessverre er det ikke bare religionen som står i veien. Her møter du dvergen Regin som vil herske i Overheimen og utrydde Åsgård med sin hær av bionter, den svikefulle Loke og de forvirrede jotnene som skifter tro hver uke. Dvergen Hornbore skal til Reykjavik for å bli Robbie Williams, Frøya er fremdeles kåt og Tor med hammeren vasker seg for første gang. Gudenes fall er sprelsk og samfunnskritisk, morsom og rå, direkte og intrikat. Sjelden har du sett gudene like føkking kreizi som dette. Levert av DnBB AS

Genres: Fantasy

429 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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