Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology

The Greek myths that I remember had a moral or else tried to explain a physical phenomenon that was beyond the scientific knowledge of the ancients. While these tales were interesting, they were really fairy stories designed for children rather than more elevated tales as the Greek's.

A good book overall, interesting to compare with modern Thor stories. Mythology can be so entertaining. If you are looking for something to read in a day that is not mainstream, think about getting this book.

I loved this. It painted a vivid picture without being too overbearing with words. My only complaint is that the author continually refers to Loki as the 'god of fire.' In the poetic edda, Loki is not referred to once as the god of fire.

Also, the beginning has some Christian undertones, saying something about how people worshipped these (the norse pantheon) as gods because they did not know of the one God, or something like that. Beyond that there was no other mention of the Christian god. If they had left that out, I might have given it a perfect 5.

This is a good short book on Norse mythology for people who are curious about Asgard, but don't want to delve too much into it. The main reason why I'm not giving it five stars is because it starts off with a heavy Christian influence. once you get past the first page however, the religious influence goes away.

The style of writing in this book was truly enjoyable: easy to understand and therefore quick to conjure up images of heroes and villains, battles and love, loathing and elation. The whole time I was reading it I felt as though a wise, old sage were telling the tales to a group of children, of which I could have been one, around a blazing fire in a faraway village.

If you're an adult with a fascination for this topic then the liberties taken with political "incorrectness" should, rather than put you off, take you back to a time when the world seemed simpler some how, when people weren't so quickly offended by simply saying something someone didn't agree with. If you ARE a child, none of that will matter anyway as the stories sweep you away to a bygone age of magic and wonderment.

I don't write a lot of reviews, but this one's worth the comment, and the download.

Brainwashed Christian! ...if your looking for good norse/German writings about the REAL gods then stay away from this author.....example in first paragraph. ....."but they did not know about the one loving God, who is the Father of all, who made them and the world, and rules it by his wise laws,so they thought there must be a great many unseen powers, living in the clouds, in the wind, in the storms, and the sunshine"....yeah so this is basically saying read and buy my book but don't believe what you read because it's not true...piece of advice to this author. ..if your gonna write a story then make it what it is..you don't have to add your brainwashing into it!

I loved this book. I want to write a book with Norse mythology, and this helped me with one of my short stories, as of this moment, titled the prophecy of the Volva. Hats off to you, Mabel H. Cummings and Mary H. Foster

The book immediately references the one true god. Then goes on to chalk up all Norse myth to be less then it is. A significant amount of the Norse names have been changed to badly or loosely translated names in English. I would not buy it a second time. I Recommend H. A. Grueber instead.

The opening of this book praises the Norse 'myths', but immediately opens with a Christian disclaimer that endorses the Christian God over the Nordic pantheon, as if it was a natural conclusion & the Norse were all fools for making up their own dieties. Typical Christian judgemental attitude. This opening made me angry.
The work itself is simple, as the authors state as their goal, but it's cloyingly so while leaving out major events. The chapter on the beginning of the universe, for instance, does not discuss Odin & his three brothers.
Overall I would not recommend this as a starter book for anyone.

Sheesh, what a bunch of crybabies. Don't you people realize that ALL creation myths talk about one ultimate God creating a bunch of inferior gods? The stories of the Asgard are no different. If you read the preface, you'll see that the authors explicitly state that these stories are derived from the Greek tales and because there are extensive details IN the stories it makes it non-suitable for young readers. My goodness, the fact that people accuse the authors of mentioning the one true God when the Greeks actually mentioned it first shows people's deep vendetta against Jesus. Anybody who knows anything about mythology will see that the the first paragraph about the one true God is mentioned in EVERY SINGLE CULTURE! Stop accusing the authors of this. All they did was compile the Greek myths, and that's it!

I breezed through this book in just a few hours! It was well written, and besides a few names, reading this was very relaxing. I would recommend this to anyone interested in creation myths and myths of gods such as I am!

Purchased for my 15 yo who absolutely loved norse mythology and the Thor and asgard series. She is anticipating the infinity war movie. She really enjoyed the tales in this book as it defines
Little more about asgard

I started to listen to this book in my car, and being huge into the Norse history. I ended up stopping the book 40 minutes in. The descriptions of the gods were not accurate, and they neglected to tell the names of the important characters until many chapters later.