The first reading for this class is from The Viking Age: A Reader (ed. Somerville and McDonald). From Chapter Three: Early Religion and Belief, please read sections eight and nine, The Norse Creation Myth and Ragnarok: The Doom of the Gods (pp. 43-58).

Here are additional "Tales from Norse Mythology" taken from Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology. You can read as many of the stories as you like, but for Monday's class, try to get through "The Treasures of the Gods" (p. 49), "The Children of Loki" (p. 91), "The Mead of Poets" (p. 125), "Thor's Journey to the Land of the Giants" (p. 153), "The Apples of Immortality" (p. 179), "Hymir and Thor's Fishing Expedition" (p. 211), and "The Death of Balder" (p. 229). You might be able to find an audiobook of the stories online – that works too!

If you want to learn more about Norse Mythology, check out, for example, Carolyne Larrington's The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes which is available as an Ebook via the UW Library.

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Here is the PowerPoint Presentation from today's class.