Mar-16-2012, 06:36 AM (UTC)
(Mar-16-2012, 02:07 AM (UTC))Omie Wrote: I just read Joanne Harris's Runelight, a follow-up to Runemarks. Both are brilliant YA fantasy stories based on Norse mythology. Runelight contributes to the Runemarks world Harris created in a way that can't help but be satisfying to a detail-nerd like myself, but the book also contributes its own unique and interesting characters and conundrums. It left not only the tantalising possibility for a third book, but the slavering desire for one due to the open ending that I won't describe in detail here.Have you read the Long Ships by Bengtsson? Not mythology, but a novel about 10th C. AD Vikings. Takes a while to get used to the old fashioned novelistic style (not much dialog), but I loved it.
Following that, I felt compelled to read An Introduction to Viking Mythology by John Grant. I love how Norse mythology is portrayed in this book, as something both epic but silly and soap opera-esque.