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Exciting re-imagining of Norse mythology

Revisado: 03-03-19

Most myths have some some basis in fact. As Matt Larkin explains, even the Prose Edda suggested Odin was originally a man. In the first of a series, Larkin takes the same approach - while showing the beginnings of Odin's struggles to unite the 9 tribes in a dying Ice Age land. I have read several authors try to imagine the beginnings of this most fatalistic of mythologies. But Larkin's re-imaginning, set in an Ice Age bedeviled by evil in the mist that escaped from below in an earlier cataclysm, gives us a dark, gritty, fast-paced tale of the lives of the men and women who would become gods. The best re-imagining of Norse mythology since Snorri compiled them.

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A rousing tale

Revisado: 12-13-18

Battle, love, betrayal, and the demands of an oath to a king proves a worthy addition to this series of Albion - not yet England - in the mid 7th century. It sits worthy along inside Cornwell's story of 10th century England. Excellent series.

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