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Thor, Odin, Loki, Freyja, the Valkyries, Valhalla, Ragnarok — many of the places we encounter these and other names, places, and events from Norse mythology in daily life and pop culture are connected to the medieval sources in name only.

From the translator of the best-selling Poetic Edda comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members - including, among others, the dragon slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.

The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.

I am a certified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist; a Transformation and Executive Coach and Trainer, a NLP Practitioner and a Personal Fitness Trainer. My business specializes in Transformational Thinking and has served individuals and groups throughout America. I’ve worked with thousands of people over the years and am convinced that we’re not that good at using our voices or hearing the voices of others. This show is for and about us and our variations and our marvelous and magical differences as humans. And it is straight talk, clarity, personal empowerment, self accountability and ...