Eight hundred years ago, when the galleys of the bold Norsemen were scudding through storm and mist far into the unknown western seas, or, in the soft summer of the Mediterranean, riding at anchor into the ports of Italy and Northern Africa, the old stories of the battles of the gods and the giants that had been repeated for hundreds of years b Norse firesides in the long winter evenings were brought together by Saemund the Wise in Iceland, and were known henceforth as the Elder Edda; and a hundred years later Snorre Sturleson retold the same old stories, with others equally marvellous, in the Younger Edda. These ancient books, which a brave and noble race carried in its heart through all its wide wanderings and conquests, take one back to the beginning of the worlds and the coming of the gods to rule over them.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 12-17 years.

There are 250 pages in this book. This book was published in 1999 by Hippocrene Books Inc. , U. S. .