18 books like Deutsche altertumskunde

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Studier over de nordiske gude- og heltesagns oprindelse Sophus Bugge · 1881 · 572p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Shares: Edda Sæmundar, Norse Mythology

Helge-digtene i den Ældre Edda Sophus Bugge · 1899 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares: Edda Sæmundar, Norse Mythology

Danmarks Historie i Hedenold N. M. Petersen · 1854 Shares: Norse Mythology, History

Vikings Frances Halton · 1992 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Myths & Legends Shares: Norse Mythology, History

From Asgard to Valhalla Heather O'Donoghue · 2007 · ★ 3.5 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Whether they focus on Thor's powerful hammer, the wailing Valkyrie, the palatial home of the gods - Asgard - or ravenous wolves and fierce elemental giants, the Norse myths are packed with rowdy incident. But at the centre of their cosmos stands a gnarled old ash tree, Yggdrasil, from which all distances and times are measured. When the old tree creaks, Ragnarok - the end of the world and of the… Shares: Norse Mythology, History

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares: History

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares: History

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares: History

American Icon Bryce G. Hoffman · 2012 · ★ 4.5 · 363p · ≈ 12h · Moderate At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself. Under the leadership of charismatic CEO Alan Mulally, the man who had saved Boeing, Ford had put together a bold plan to unify… Shares: History

Tower of Basel Adam LeBor · 2013 · ★ 4.2 · 323p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An investigative history of the Bank for International Settlements, the central bankers' own bank. Shares: History

Trú og landnámEinar Pálsson.

Trú og landnám Einar Pálsson. · 1970 · 404p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares: Norse Mythology, History

Gods and myths of northern Europe Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson · 1960 · ★ 4.1 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Tiw, Woden, Thunor, Frig... these ancient northern deities gave their names to the very days of our week. Nevertheless most of us know far more of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and the classical deities. Recent researches in archaeology and mythology have added to what was already a fairly consistent picture (largely derived from a twelfth-century Icelandic account) of the principal Scandinavian… Shares: Norse Mythology, History

Hedendomen i historiens spegel Catharina Raudvere · 2005 · 205p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Bilden av det förgångna tolkas alltid genom de tankemönster samtiden tillhandahåller, och olika tider har därför skapat skiftande biler av historien. I Hedendomen i historiens spegel tecknar författarna en bild av hur fornnordiska texter fått olika betydelse under skilda epoker. För att kunna använda den norröna litteraturen med dess personligheter och händelser, myter och ritualer som källa… Shares: Norse Mythology, History

Tíminn og eldurinnEinar Pálsson.

Tíminn og eldurinn Einar Pálsson. · 1972 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares: Norse Mythology, History

Blot Britt-Mari Näsström · 2001 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Offret var centralt i det förkristna samhället. I Eddans skapelseberättelse skapas jorden av den offrade jätten Ymers kropp och härskarguden Oden ger själv sitt ena öga för att få dricka ur vishetens brunn. Vikingarna såg blotet som ett gåvoutbyte mellan människor och gudar. De offrade vanligtvis mat och föremål för att få en rik skörd, god fruktsamhet eller för att fira årstidernas ankomst.I… Shares: Norse Mythology, History

Av Norges indre historie Olav Stokland · 1969 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares: Norse Mythology, History

Die Wirkliche Mittelerde Arnulf Krause · 2012 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Tolkien hat nie ein Geheimnis daraus gemacht, dass in seinem Werk Motive der altgermanischen oder altnordischen Mythologie nachklingen. Denn Mittelerde gab es als mythologischen Ort schon vor anderthalbtausend Jahren im Norden Europas bei den Germanen und Kelten. Ausgehend von Tolkiens Mittelerde sucht der Germanist Arnulf Krause nun nach dessen Vorbildern im frühen Mittelalter und findet bei den… Shares: Norse Mythology, History

The coming of the dragon Rebecca Barnhouse · 2010 · ★ 3.8 · 311p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Rebecca Barnhouse weaves Norse gods, blood feuds, and a terrifying dragon into this spectacular retelling of the end of the Old English poem Beowulf.When he was a baby, Rune washed up onshore in a boat, along with a sword and a pendant bearing the runes that gave him his nickname. Some people thought he was a sacrifice to the gods and wanted to send him right back to the sea. Luckily for Rune,… Shares: Norse Mythology, History

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