Heather O’Donoghue is Professor of Old Norse at University of Oxford, UK. Among others, she is the author of Old Norse Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction (2004), English Poetry and Old Norse (2014) and Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), among others. She has also broadcast with the BBC on the topic of the Norse Gods.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I. The Earliest Sources of Old Norse Mythology1. Creation and the Cosmos2. Gods and Giants3. Heroes and Humans4. Afterlife and Apocalypse Part II. The Reception of Norse Myth5. The Viking Legacy6. Romantic Revolutions7. The Rise of Racism8. Myth and Mass Media9. The Misappropriation of MythologyEpilogueFurther ReadingA Note on Proper NamesAppendix: TimelineIndex

Heather O’Donoghue is Professor of Old Norse at University of Oxford, UK. Among others, she is the author of Old Norse Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction (2004), English Poetry and Old Norse (2014) and Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), among others. She has also broadcast with the BBC on the topic of the Norse Gods.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I. The Earliest Sources of Old Norse Mythology1. Creation and the Cosmos2. Gods and Giants3. Heroes and Humans4. Afterlife and Apocalypse Part II. The Reception of Norse Myth5. The Viking Legacy6. Romantic Revolutions7. The Rise of Racism8. Myth and Mass Media9. The Misappropriation of MythologyEpilogueFurther ReadingA Note on Proper NamesAppendix: TimelineIndex

Heather O’Donoghue is Professor of Old Norse at University of Oxford, UK. Among others, she is the author of Old Norse Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction (2004), English Poetry and Old Norse (2014) and Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), among others. She has also broadcast with the BBC on the topic of the Norse Gods.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I. The Earliest Sources of Old Norse Mythology1. Creation and the Cosmos2. Gods and Giants3. Heroes and Humans4. Afterlife and Apocalypse Part II. The Reception of Norse Myth5. The Viking Legacy6. Romantic Revolutions7. The Rise of Racism8. Myth and Mass Media9. The Misappropriation of MythologyEpilogueFurther ReadingA Note on Proper NamesAppendix: TimelineIndex