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Is Valhalla Heaven or Hell? 10 Facts That Might Surprise You

By Scandinavia Facts

Valhalla is closer to the concept of heaven than it is to hell, but it is not an exact parallel. Located in Asgard, Valhalla is where Odin, the god of thunder, reigns. Valkyries, Odin’s maiden warriors, select which elite Viking warriors may enter. The description of Valhalla is what the Vikings would have considered a paradise.

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Ásatrú for Beginners: A Modern Heathen’s Guide to the Ancient Northern Way

Explore the ancient gods and goddesses of Ásatrú―and find your spiritual path Ásatrú is a spiritual belief system based around the pre-Christian folklore and mythology of Northern Europe.

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Mathias Nordvig
2025
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The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok (Hackett Classics)

From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature.

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Jackson Crawford (translator)
2025
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The Wanderer’s Hávamál

The Wanderer’s Hávamál features Jackson Crawford’s complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Hávamál, newly annotated for this volume, together with facing original Old Norse text sourced directly from the Codex Regius manuscript.

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Jackson Crawford (translator)
2025
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo (Shambhala Pocket Library)

A classic of Tibetan Buddhism brought to life with insightful commentary by a modern master.

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Francesca Fremantle (translator), Chögyam Trungpa (translator)
2019
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The Luminous Landscape of the Afterlife: Jordan’s Message to the Living on What to Expect after Death

A channeled guide to the life-death transition experience and how to prepare for the wonders of the afterlife. • Reveals the afterlife as a fluid realm of imagination and invention, a luminous landscape created entirely of consciousness.

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Matthew McKay
2025
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Finding Joe

A truly inspirational film, Finding Joe explores the studies of famed mythologist Joseph Campbell. Take a journey through the human psyche and discover the pattern hidden in every story.

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2011
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Top 10 Most Powerful Goddesses of Mythology

They say behind every great man is a great woman, but we refuse to believe that these female deities stood behind any man, no matter how “great.” That’s right, we gave you the ten most powerful Gods of mythology, so of course we’d be back for the most powerful Goddesses as well.

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2018
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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present.

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Edith Hamilton
2011
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Home with God: In a Life that Never Ends

An instant New York Times bestseller, Neale Donald Walsch offers the classic exploration of the process by which we end our lives here on earth and begin our so-called after life experience in God’s kingdom.

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Neale Donald Walsch
2007
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Dr. Robert Johnson—Mythology and Modern Life

Dr. Robert Johnson discusses mythology in his film In Search of the Holy Grail.

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Robert A. Johnson
2011
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Norse Mythology