Gods of the Germanic Peoples 1

This is book one of the two volume color edition of »Gods of the Germanic Peoples«. Both volumes together offer information about over 270 deities of the Germanic peoples, presented alphabetically. It covers the time from the Roman Era until the Viking Age.After a longer background introduction the deities from »Abiamara« until »Jarnsaxe« are discussed.The scientific information is accompanied with many new myths and a rich amount of illustrations. The term 'myths' is used in its widest sense: here, stories are meant with a historical 'touch' in which is shown how in ancient times people possibly could have experienced their deities in allday life.All together it presents a much more vivid presentation than solely dry scholarly information could offer.This volume contains 328 pages with 45 illustrations in color and 60 in black/white (graytones).