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_Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths_ by Nancy Marie Brown (ebook)(2012)
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This book is about Icelandic (i.e., Norse, Viking) literature and how it has given us so much of the mythology we now find in the writings of Tolkien and other writers. It's a book about Norse mythology.
The book tell us that the Icelandic bard, Snorri Sturluson, was the original source of this mythology.
FROM KIRKUS REVIEWS:
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"It was Snorri's renditions of Odin the wanderer, elves, frost giants and epic battles that inspired literary greats like Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling and George R.R. Martin."
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FROM THE GR DESCRIPTION:
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"Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding and pillaging Vikings.
Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name of Snorri Sturluson. Like Homer, Snorri was a bard, writing down and embellishing the folklore and pagan legends of medieval Scandinavia."
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