The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics)

Just as the einherjar would fight for the gods at the Ragnarök, the drowned also had their station, although a terrible one that they do not seem to have earned. As all the powers gather at the end, something will stir on the ocean floor, the greatest Viking ship ever made. Its name is Naglfar, ‘Nail-Ship’, so called because it is built from the fi

Then there are the gods of humanity – those of love and lust, of rage and anger, of compassion and fidelity. They sing deep within our bones, and are just as much a force to be reckoned with as the other gods. The Druid works to establish relationship with these gods as much as with the gods of nature – for humans are a part of nature.

the story of the one-eyed God, Balor,

In revenge for Ymir’s death, the crime at the core of the Viking world, the giants’ hatred of the Aesir will extend to the Ragnarök itself when their armies of frost and fire will invade the gods’ home. There have been many attempts to understand what the giants ‘mean’. Unlike the gods, they do not seem to have impinged on the human world of Midgar