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The sword of summer
Magnus Chase, a homeless boy living in Boston, finds out he is the son of a Norse god.
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The entirely true story of the unbelievable FIB
When eleven-year-old Pru and new boy ABE discover another world beneath their quiet town, where Viking gods lurk just out of sight, they must race to secure the Eye of Odin, source of all knowledge--and the key to stopping a war that could destroy both human and immortal realms.
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For magnus chase : Hotel Valhalla guide to the Norse worlds : your introduction to deities, mythical beings & fantastic creatures
\"A can't-live-without guide for guests of the Hotel Valhalla, this volume contains facts about the Norse gods as well as other characters and creatures you might encounter if you are fortunate enough to be chosen as one of Odin's brave warriors\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Loki and Odin: Old Gods Repurposed by Neil Gaiman, A. S. Byatt, and Klas Östergren
Norse Gods are repurposed by contemporary authors in different modes than those used for classical, Egyptian, African, and Native American gods. Whereas those others mostly lend a trace of heroic glamor or even help the characters in the novels, Odin and Loki are used to darker ends. Their connection to Ragnarok—Odin through knowing of its coming, and Loki for bringing it about—gives them more threatening roles. Gaiman, Byatt, and Östergren all locate their novels’ action in a situation of apparently waning power and threatening doom, and make connections between those two figures and our behaviors, ecological, political, and personal.
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9 from the Nine Worlds
\"Characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and inventive new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Up in Smoke and Flames: Social Turbulence and Volcanic Activity in Icelandic Fiction
After an introduction of some theories on volcanic activity in Old Norse literature and an example of a recent novel where Nordic mythology is recycled into contemporary environmental discourse, the second part explores how two Icelandic novelists have recently used the setting of seventeenth-century MóÐuharÐindi (the Mist Hardships) to address social turbulence in the present, suggesting that a seemingly more frequent use of volcanic imagery in Icelandic fiction of the last decade is partly a response to the social unrest following the country's economic collapse and, more recently, the looming threat of climate change. In the early twentieth century, using the exotic aspect of Iceland's volcanic activity to support a story of social turbulence seems to have appealed to authors writing from a distance, such as the Icelandic Canadian Laura Goodman Salverson, writing in English, and Gunnar Gunnarsson who wrote in Danish from Denmark. Descriptions of volcanic eruptions remained, however, surprisingly rare in Icelandic fictive literature until the twenty-first century, with exceptions mostly occuring in historical novels and drama.1 In spite of a dominant Romantic emphasis on nature in Icelandic literature of the nineteenth century, a description of a volcanic eruption in Jónas Hallgrímsson's poem \"FjalliÐ SkjaldbreiÐur\" (Jónas Hallgrímsson 1845; Mount Broadshield (Travel Verses from Summer 1841 [2002]) is a bold and original experiment, according to Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, because at this time, the creative and destructive force of nature had not been the subject of many poets. According to Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, poets of the Icelandic Enlightenment in the eighteenth century used the pastoral for social purposes, with emphasis on living in harmony with nature and that nature became a sort of dreamworld or ideal in late nineteenth-century Iceland, forming a strong opposition to the imperfect human world.2 One exception is the poem \"VolaÐa land\" (Destitute Land), which was published anonymously in the Icelandic-Canadian newspaper Lögberg in 1888 and sparked an outrage.
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The Ship of the Dead
Magnus and his friends set sail for the farthest borders of Jotunheim and Niflheim in pursuit of Asgard's greatest threat, Loki's demonic ship full of zombies.
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