Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions

Just started it and I love it so far

I have grown more knowledgeable on this subject now. This book is very user friendly and doesn't drown the reader with exhaustive names that are difficult to pronounce, being from a different culture. That only serves as a distraction from stronger attention to the immediate topics. It is a book I will re-read too. It's full of great details about the Norse and Celts. I didn't realize there was so much convergence, if that's saying it correct and true to the context.

A quality brand-new book and fast delivery.10/10.H R Ellis Davidson remains an authority in her field and I can't recommend her highly enough for those who seek to learn past the mundane stereotypes that are perpetuated when it comes to all things, "Viking." This book is a must-have if you are a serious student on that subject but also look to go beyond it as well. I really don't consider this a bad price at all for scholarly work. Especially when I'm looking at some that are in the hundreds mark and probably won't be buying because that's just highway robbery masquerading as "publishing."

Davidson has done a great job with this book in setting out to show the similarities in the religious/cultural practices and beliefs of the Germanic and Celtic heathens. My personal belief is that the Gods of the Norse and other Germanics are the same Gods as those that the Celts worshipped, even if the names, lore and rites differed in various ways. She draws heaviest from the Irish sources instead of Welsh, Brit and continental Celts for drawing comparisons to Germanic peoples but even those are far from being totally neglected. Personally I don't how anybody could deny, even coming from the academic egghead perspective , that Odin and the Irish/Welsh/Gaelic Lugh/Lleu are anything other than the same God after reading this book.From an academic/historical perspective this is argueably the best book ever written on Odinsim.

Book was pristine and arrived carefully packed and a day early.

This work compares Celtic and Scandinavian mythic and iconographic themes. Professor Davidson does an excellent job of covering a limited set of themes and provides a great deal of food for thought.The main areas which are covered are the core elements of religion-- themes relating to the otherworld, festivities, holy places and the like, This work does not attempt a full-scale comparison of myths and religious structures.All and all, I think this book is an important one for students of related topics to have. I gave it 4 stars only because I thought readability could have been slightly improved.

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Great in-dept study on the topic.Some might find it a bit "dry", but if you want a new age "follow my own invented fairytale beliefs", you can find hundreds of it out there, this is a more objective, historical approach of the beliefs, traditions and symbolism of the old faiths.

I appreciate this book immensely. As someone who enjoys going down wiki rabbit holes, this book was great for the cross referencing element. It was as though I was given the chance to enjoy someones knowledgable monologues, in an objective and almost comfortable conversational way. It offers a nice overview which I was looking for - desiring a book making connections around North Europe, and this is it. I am pleased. A good soft cover book, well printed and with a few interesting images.

Conteúdo interessante sobre a perspectiva pagã dos povos nórdicos.

Está muy bien, es un clásico en mitología. Encontrarás información referente a nórdicos, germanos, celtas... Aunque es en inglés no es extremadamente difícil de leer.

It's an area I'm very much interested in and have been researching - this book is very well known and highly regarded - it's also difficult to get. I'm very pleased to have it.I'm also pleased to report to you that the book arrived ahead of time, exactly as described, in excellent condition, and that the sellers customer service has been excellent throughout.

Great book came extremely fast. Thank you