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  • Mythology and Nation Building

    N.F.S. Grundtvig and His European Contemporaries

    Edited by Sophie Bønding, Lone Kølle Martinsen, Pierre-Brice Stahl ...
    Stories of gods, heroes and monsters permeated discourses of national selfhood in the nineteenth century. During this tumultuous time, Europe’s modern nations arose from the misty waters of long-forgotten national pasts – or so was the perception at the time. Each embedded in their particular national and political contexts, towering cultural figures – N.F.S. Grundtvig, Jacob Grimm, Jonás ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digital Momentum

    Building Real Change-Ready Enterprises

    by Brice Ominski ...
    Series series Security, Audit and Leadership Series
    Architecting for Velocity, Trust, and Continuous TransformationDigital disruption isn’t a storm to ride out; it’s the atmosphere we breathe. Business models are fundamentally shifting, moving from product-centric to service-dominant. Technologies outpace systems before they’ve even rebooted. The pace of innovation outstrips the capacity of yesterday’s systems to keep up.Digital Momentum is your ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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  • Women and Weapons in the Viking World

    Amazons of the North

    by Leszek Gardela ...
    "Invigorating . . . Gardeła reappraises the connections between women and violence in an early-medieval society that has left few texts to guide us." — Studies in Late AntiquityThis book sets out to investigate the idea of "the armed woman" in the Viking Age through a comprehensive and cross-cultural approach and weaves a nuanced picture of women's lives in the Viking world.The Viking Age (c. AD ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Northern Dawn: A History of the Reawakening of the Germanic Spirit

    From the Twilight of the Gods to the Sun at Midnight

    by Stephen Edred Flowers ...
    Series Book 1 - The Northern Dawn
    Throughout the United States and Europe, a revival of interest in all things Germanic is taking place. This can be seen in the growth of pre-Christian religious movements, and in the much wider popularity of movies, novels, and television shows about the Viking Age. Just as other ethnicities show a healthy desire to reconnect with their indigenous past, the revival of Germanic culture appeals to ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga

    by Margaret Clunies Ross ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Barbarian Rites

    The Spiritual World of the Vikings and the Germanic Tribes

    by Hans-Peter Hasenfratz, Ph.D. ...
    Discover the untamed paganism of the Vikings and the Germanic tribes prior to the complete Christianization of Europe• Explores the different forms of magic practiced by these tribes, including runic magic, necromancy (death magic), soul-travel, and shape-shifting• Examines their rites of passage and initiation rituals and their most important gods, such as Odin, Loki, and Thor• Looks at barbarian ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    by Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Languages of Scandinavia

    Seven Sisters of the North

    by Ruth H. Sanders ...
    "A much-needed, comprehensive, and accessible overview of the interrelationship among" Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish, and Sami (Ilmari Ivaska, Scandinavian Studies).From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages, ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Snorri Sturluson and the Edda

    The Conversion of Cultural Capital in Medieval Scandinavia

    by Kevin Wanner ...
    Why would Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241), the most powerful and rapacious Icelander of his generation, dedicate so much time and effort to producing the Edda, a text that is widely recognized as the most significant medieval source for pre-Christian Norse myth and poetics? Kevin J. Wanner brings us a new account of the interests that motivated the production of this text, and resolves the mystery ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Tracing Old Norse Cosmology

    The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological Perspectives

    by Anders Andrén ...
    Series series Midgard-series
    The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén offers a long-term perspective on Old Norse cosmology and argues that the fundamental ideas of an ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cold Counsel

    The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth

    Edited by Sarah M. Anderson, Karen Swenson ...
    Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Revival of the Runes

    The Modern Rediscovery and Reinvention of the Germanic Runes

    by Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D. ...
    • Explores the five periods of runic revival: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic period, the early 20th century, and the late 20th century• Examines the use of runes by the foremost magicians and scholars of each era, including mystic and scholar Johannes Bureus, who developed his own integrated system of runology known as Adalruna• Reveals how the Nazi misguided use of the runes ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD