Lucas Blogs About Norse Mythology
Finally, a prequel to American Gods ! So, what's this book's deal? Hold up, Hypothetical Reader, are you really asking me what a book called Norse Mythology is about? Well, I mean, it could be anything, it could be an academic treatise on the subject, it could be a misprint in a collection of stories about legendary equines, it could be. . . Okay, I get it. Norse Mythology is a collection of short stories about the Norse gods, which all happen to be in sequential order, but don't necessarily coalesce into a single story. Gaiman sources the stories back to the Prose and Poetic Eddas , and even talks about the ways he tweaked the stories to maintain an internal continuity. What can I say? It's pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a book with the words: "Neil Gaiman" and "Norse Mythology" on the cover. Gaiman presents these stories of gods, elves, dwarfs, giants, and ogres in plain, clear prose that leaves intact the darkness ...