Viking Myths and Legends

128pp, with stunning full page colour plate illustrations from artists including Arthur Rackham, J Doyle Penrose, Sir Frank Dicksee, Willy Pogany, Richard Jack and many others. In pictorial boards (mild indentations on upper edge). Internally neat. clean, bright and tight. In its original pictorial dust jacket (very slightly bumped along upper edge). Scandinavian mythology is one of profound contracts with stories of unforgettable heroes like Odin, Thor, Freyai and Loki provide a guide for living and a record of pagan Viking thinking. This volume presents, beautifully, a wide selection of these stories, put in their context by a fine introduction by the author, and with further notes and suggested further reading. Lovely volume.