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Heather O’Donoghue.
From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths.

Published London: I. B. Tauris, 2008 (hardback was 2007).
ISBN 9781845118297.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Thomson Press, India.
Size: 155x234x16mm.
Page count: text vii,224pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this is an ex-display copy so shows some evidence of handling, and in particular has evidently been dropped, so that there is some mild kinking to the top outside corner throughout; in other respects unused.


This item £7.00
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within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £11.99]
Weight without packaging: 335g.

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Contents:
1. Earliest sources: Creation & cosmos; Gods & giants; Heroes & humans; Afterlife & apocalypse;
2. Reception of Norse myth: Viking legacy; Romantic revolutions; Rise of racism; Contemporary myths.

Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 3pp
Indexes: General; Norse names.

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