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VIKING GODS AND MAGIC
Religion, Rituals, Runes and the Supernatural in the Norse World (THE VIKING WORLD Book 3)
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The Norse did not leave a sacred book behind. Their gods survive in broken poems, buried ships, sacrificed animals, runic charms, place-names, and graves that still refuse easy answers.
VIKING GODS AND MAGIC enters the supernatural world of the Viking Age to uncover what Scandinavian people may actually have believed. Discover how they honoured Odin, Thor, and Freyja; sought help from seers and spirits; used runes for writing, healing, and protection; faced fate and death; and negotiated the long conversion to Christianity.
Drawing on archaeology, contemporary testimony, skaldic poetry, rune-stones, and later Icelandic texts, Jonathan R. Alderwick separates firm historical findings from informed interpretation, medieval legend, and modern invention.
Accessible, atmospheric, and carefully researched, this book moves beyond familiar mythology to reveal religion as it was lived: beside the hearth, inside the hall, at the burial mound, and aboard ships bound for unknown shores.
For readers who want the history behind the Norse legends
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