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The Encyclopedia of Mythology: Classical Celtic Norse

By Arthur Cotterell

Book information

Publisher
Smithmark Publishers
Year
1996
ISBN
9780831773243, 0831773243
Open Library ID
OL8187106M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
22 MB (22794064 bytes)
Pages
259\259
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

This is mostly a picture book. It is in dictionary form, with three dictionaries, one each for Classical, Celtic, and Norse myths. Many of the illustrations are lavish and excellent, including oil paintings, museum pieces, and story-book illistrations circa 1900. Other illustrations (about a third) are meritless; evidently drawn to fill up space in the book. The text covers major entries that could be found in any dictionary of mythology, but falls severely short on minor characters and places. It is also missing several obvious entries: for example 'dwarf' and 'giant' and 'troll' are missing from the Norse dictionary. The Norse dictionary includes a smattering of characters from Baltic and Finnish (Kallevalla) mythology but it is even more incomplete than the Scandenavian entries.

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