Norse Paganism

What did the Vikings actually believe?

Not the Hollywood version. Not the horned helmets and the mindless violence. The real thing — a complete religious worldview that sustained an entire civilization for thousands of years, that produced some of the greatest explorers and most sophisticated mythological thinking the ancient world ever saw.

Norse Paganism takes you through the full sweep of that tradition, from its earliest roots among the Sami shamans of the Stone Age to the modern practitioners who are reviving it today.

Inside you will learn everything you need to know about:

• The origins of Norse paganism and its history through the centuries
• The Viking lifestyle - raids and warfare
• The Christianization of Scandinavia and how paganism survived
• The details surrounding Norse magic and runes
• Gods and goddesses of Norse Mythology
• The way Vikings regarded death and the afterlife
• The Nine Realms of Norse Cosmology
• How to become a Norse Pagan nowadays
• The impact of Norse Paganism on pop culture

A serious, accessible account of a tradition that honored courage over comfort and built a cosmology honest enough to include its own destruction.. Whatever brought you here, this book gives you the full picture.

The Norse gods are not dead. They were never quite killed. Pick up the book and find out why.