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Aug 08, 2018Andrew Kyle Bacon rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
For my money, there's hardly anything better than Norse myth. There's a beauty to these stories that lacks any pretense or air of importance. These are folk stories at heart, meant to explain things about the world and how those ancient folk viewed it. The very name of these tales, the "eddas," is possibly derived from the word for "great-grandmother." These are stories grandmothers told. Neil Gaiman latches on to this and lovingly filters these stories through his own mind and imagination (the process of which he explains briefly at the end of the volume), all the while staying as true to the original sources as he can. This is, to put it simply, clearly a labor of love and it pours off of every page. There's not much else to say. It's merely a wonderful book.