Song of the Vikings

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Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
Nancy Marie Brown

I thoroughly appreciated this book. It's not as dry as reading commentaries on the sagas and not as dumbed down as some books on mythology that seem to be aimed at an adolescent audience. I love how Brown weaved the biography of Snorri Sturluson into the myths he compiled and created. I was expecting more myth and less biography. But, I think I prefer the approach that she took with the book.

She wades into the waters of how Tolkien and Gaiman have built onto mythology. I think she was less successful in this endeavor than in incorporating the Sturluson biography, but it is still an interesting approach to the myths.