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The Southwood Group literature book reviews-Beliebte Märchen Aus dem nordischen

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Dies ist George Dasents klassische Sammlung der skandinavischen Folklore. Dies ist nicht per se zur nordischen Mythologie; Also, wenn Sie Geschichten von Odin, Loki und Freya etc. suchen, müssen Sie woanders suchen. Vielmehr ist dies eine Anthologie der Volksmärchen, ähnlich wie die Brüder Grimm oder Campbells Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Alle die üblichen Verdächtigen sind vorhanden, einschließlich Riesen, Trolle, Hexen, böse Schritt-Geschwister, magische Wohltaten und Aufgaben und anthropomorphe Tiere.

Die Einführung ist außergewöhnlich gut geschrieben und verschiedenen magische und andere Themen aus den Märchen in den Kontext der alten germanischen heidnischen Glauben platziert. Es ist jedoch eine viktorianische wissenschaftliche Abhandlung (mit den erforderlichen mehrseitigen Foonotes und rhetorischen Verbrämungen), und wird meist von den akademischen Lesern geschätzt werden. Sobald Sie die Einführung jedoch vorbeizukommen, die Prosa senkt sich in die junge Erwachsene-Ebene und die entzückenden Geschichten können von Lesern jeden Alters geschätzt werden. Es gibt auch ein Anhang mit ein paar ‘Anansi’ Geschichten von den Westindischen.



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Southwood NorseMytho Group - The Ragnarok Conspiracy

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From the 2012 debut thriller novel of biomedical scientist Erec Stebbins –The Ragnarök Conspiracy (www.ragnarokconspiracy.com) the reader takes to a world like shaken and stirred. This novel is about a Western terrorist organization attempting to instigate a global war with the Islamic world, a group of FBI and CIA agents work together to uncover and stop their plot. The Ragnarök Conspiracy follows two main characters, an “American Bin Laden” and an FBI agent, who both suffer a terrible loss on 9/11, but clash over how to respond to terrorist threats from radicalized Muslims.

It’s the story of two men who share a traumatic loss at the hands of Muslim extremists, and yet take two ultimately divergent paths afterwards. One man, John Savas, channels his pain to become one of the nation’s leading, if unorthodox, FBI counter-terrorism officers. The other uses his considerable wealth and power to become the equivalent of an American Osama bin Laden, and is the antagonist of the story who plans and sets in motion a global conflict with the Muslim world. Much like the final Armageddon of Norse mythology, these two are destined to face off in an ultimate battle over the soul of civilization and the fate of the world.

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Southwood Norsemytho Group: The Runes of Norse Mythology




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Runes are letters comprising the runic alphabets that were employed in writing numerous Germanic languages before it adopting the Latin alphabet. The study of runic inscriptions, runestones and the history of the alphabet called Runology, is also considered a special branch of Germanic linguistics.
Earliest evidence of runic inscriptions date back to 150 AD. They were discovered in Denmark and Germany. As Christianity spread in Europe from 700 to 1100 AD, runes were gradually supplanted by the Latin alphabet  though its use in special circumstances still persisted.

The three widely-recognized rune alphabets are:
Anglo-Saxon Futhorc (400 to 1100 AD)
Elder Futhark (150 to 800 AD)
Younger Futhark (800 to 1100 AD)

The Younger Futhark is divided into three: the staveless runes, the Rok runes and the Danish runes. It also later developed into the Medieval runes and Dalecarlian runes between 1500 and 1800.
The runic alphabet was derived from the ancient Italic alphabets.  However, there is a deception on which particular variant of the Old Italic was the runes based on. It could be either Old Latin, Etruscan or Raetic. During that time, those scripts are written in the same angular way perfect to the study of ancient inscriptions.
In the Norse mythology, runes certified beliefs on divine origin, as based on inscriptions dated 600 AD. A poem in Elder Edda an alternate story on how the runes was learned by humans was related. According to the poem, Heimdall had 3 sons on mortal women. His children were named Jarl (noble), Churl (freeman), Thrall (slave) who were believed to be ancestors of the 3 human society classes.

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