![]() ![]() That he depicted: a son-in-law murdered him for political advantage.) ![]() Sturluson, the author of the Prose Edda, was as unlucky as the pantheon Their past endures-only a few medieval manuscripts, written long afterĬhristianity had displaced the stark religions of the North. Gripping a bouquet of flowers, about to convey them to a client ofįlorists’ Transworld Delivery.) One cannot declare with the sameĬonfidence that the Norse gods live among us, despite Wagner, Marvel, and Tolkien (whose elves and dwarves owe much to the Icelandic Eddas). (On the street today, I saw a truck with Hermes on its side-he was The gods and goddesses of Olympus are still alive,Ĭlomping through our literature, art, and movies. Photograph by Nick Cunard / Eyevine / Redux As in “American Gods,” the brutality in Neil Gaiman’s “Norse Mythology” feels giddy, cartoonishly weightless, until, suddenly, it doesn’t. ![]()
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