What I’m Reading: My Nonfiction Odyssey
I’m currently reading The Norns in Old Norse Mythology (2011) by Karen Bek-Pederson.
While I’m also a fan of comics, sci-fi, and fantasy, I’m currently on a nonfiction streak. My favorites are books about religion and mythology, history, folklore, and anything a bit strange, but you’ll often find me prowling the stacks, searching for something new.
After noticing that a lot of the more obscure nonfiction books don’t have any good reviews on sites like Goodreads, I’ve started writing my own. Here on my blog, each book review is accompanied with a public domain or Creative Commons image that I felt complemented the book.
The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe
The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe by Hilda Ellis Davidson (1993) does contain a lot of interesting information, but it is not always packaged in an easy to follow way. Focusing largely on Scandinavian, Icelandic, and Celtic peoples, but also touching on the Germanic, Davidson surveys the archaeological, literary, and folkloric evidence…