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helt fantastisk!! illustrationerna visste jag ju skulle vara det - men HUR sjuk och intressant är inte den nordiska mytologin?!? nu vill ja veta ännu mer. Hardcover En värld född ur is och eld
nio riken där jättar,
vidunder och gudar lever
i världsträdets skugga.
En storslagen kamp mot
ett oundvikligt öde.
Johan Egerkrans have taken my cold Norse heart and filled it with love and admiration for this book. With astonishing illustrations and impressive care and time Johan have given life to the Norse gods and their stories and myths. Tor, Oden, Loke & co. have been reborn and I'm brought to tears! (kind of.) I am a huge nerd when it comes to norse mythology, and has always been.
Tor
Det var tidens början.
Då intet var till.
Ej sand eller hav.
Eller svala vågor.
Jorden fanns icke.
Ej himmelen ovan.
Ett väldigt gap fanns.
Men inget gräs.
There is so much I want to say about this book but I don't have the words. This book was a 3 year long project and you can feel it in every fiber how much effort has been put in to it.
Johan has taken his time in the making of this book and you can tell, just as in his last book, that he really has done his research..-Peter Madsen
I can't do anything but agree to that. Johan must have lived with his nose in every historybook about norse mythology he could find. He has taken the bigger picture of those myths and stories and combined it with a small amount of his own imagination. I even learned thing I never new before.
The illustrations gives the characters an honest image. It pains me every time I have to watch an Avengers Movie, just to see how Loke and Tor and the other norse gods are portraid just make me want to roll my eyes so hard that my skull might crack. The norse gods aren't picture perfect (excepts for Loke), they are almost barbaric in both appearance- and behaviourvice and Johan has really manage to capture that.
Njord
If I had received this book in junior high I probably would have fainted and I can't praise this book enough without sounding either desperate or boring.
All I'm gonna say is that if you get the opportunity, just by the damn book!
Idun Hardcover I enjoy these l books I get from Grimfrost.
I’ve added some art from my book below.
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
Hardcover Jag gillar mest att Johan Egerkrans skriver om våra nordiska gudinnor som dem stora hjältar och krigare som dem är och inte bara att dem är vackra och avgudas av män. Hardcover I have a secret crush on Johan Egerkrans, ever since I heard him talk about this book at an event last spring. Well, I've liked him longer than that, his drawings are spectacular, but just listening to him getting all nerdy in the Eddas was envigorating.
UPDATE:
Ran out of time writing, so here's some more review of this actual book and not just random swooning.
I actually think Gaiman did a better job bringing the characters to life in Norse Mythology than Egerkrans. I think Egerkrans stays more true to the original Eddas, and all the little snippets of original quotes, I just eat up with a spoon. But the way Gaiman sorted the stories chronologically rather than after characters is just dramaturgically (?) better. I get that it's probably easier if you want to illustrate the different gods rather than the story, and the illustrations really should lead in this book, but the stories are just a little dry. I didn't get his passion in his writing, the way I got it listening to him. Or looking at the illustrations. Because those are just fenomenal.
Oh, and another thing! Egerkrans translates most names into modern Swedish, which makes sense, but it just got me thinking about all the other names. I mean, all exotic, cool names like Odin's bracelet Draupnir, I bet it just means droplet or something. Like Gildenborst, Frey's pig? It literally just is golden brush/hair. I don't know, it just makes me giggle. Hardcover
Nordiska gudar är en vackert illustrerad bok där gudar, jättar, dvärgar, valkyrior, monster och hjältar presenteras i all sin prakt. En bok för den som redan är intresserad och initierad, och för den som ännu inte upptäckt asagudarnas värld – ett storverk som fångar läsare i alla åldrar.
Med avstamp i de gamla Eddorna har Johan Egerkrans tolkat de mest spännande och fantasifulla sagorna. Från den gruvliga skapelseberättelsen där ur-jätten Ymer styckas av Oden och hans bröder, till gudarnas ödesmättade undergång i Ragnarök. Från urtidens kaos, till världsträdets nio riken med alla dess fantastiska och ohyggliga skapelser. En mörk, blodig, fantasieggande och stundtals humoristisk resa i den nordiska mytologins värld.
Välkända berättelser från Eddorna – som sagorna om Iduns äpplen, Mimers brunn och Tors färd till Utgård – paras med fakta om de varelser som befolkar Asgård, Jotunheim och underjorden. Nordiska gudar
I was looking on that book for many years and eventually got it as a present for myself. The stories here are well-known Scandinavian myths. The main value of the book is hidden in drawings. Its just a pleasant to hold it, look on illustrations and follow old stories I remember from childhood. Hardcover I read this for inspiration to my DND campaign that i am running.
When i started reading i found out that this is an amazing book in all aspects.
Suddendly a new book enters my list of favourites.
I would recommend this to anyone and everyone.
Hardcover It is a collection of some of the more well-known myths, but that isn’t necessarily the selling point of the book. The illustrations are the star in Norse Gods and they truly do justice to the hard-edge of the gods they portray. I have only read a couple of other books on the Norse myths, but this was one I happily picked up because of the new perspective and beautiful art it adds to the collection of works. If you are a fan of Norse mythology, and want a book that is filled to the brim with breath-taking images, then look no further. - https://thepastduereview.com/2018/03/... Hardcover Amazing art combined with as-close-to-the-original stories found in the Elder and Younger Edda's. Hardcover The stories are really accessible and interesting, and the illustrations are beautiful. -1 star for the editing. I don't know if it had something to do with the process of translating, but there were several typos in the book. Hardcover