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The Myth of Loki and the Deadly Mistletoe - Iseult Gillespie

2020

Discover the Norse myth of Baldur, the most beloved being in Asgard, and how the trickster god Loki plotted his death.

05:29 min

The Death of Balder: Everyone Swears an Oath Except Mistletoe

The most handsome of the gods was born to Frigg and Odin. He was named Balder (also known as Baldur or Baldr). He was a god of truth and light.

Article
N.S. Gill
2019
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother.

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Seamus Heaney (translator)
2001
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The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics)

Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens.

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Snorri Sturluson, Jesse L. Byock (translator)
2006
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The Forgotten Children of Maui: Filipino Myths, Tattoos, and Rituals of a Demigod

When people hear of Maui, they mainly think of the island named after him in the Hawaiian archipelago. In Polynesia, Maui is best known as a superman, a demigod who performed incredible feats of strength like fishing up islands and capturing the sun.

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Lane Wilcken
2025
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The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology

In this work, acclaimed Jungian James Hillman examines the concepts of myth, insights, eros, body, and the mytheme of female inferiority, as well as the need for the freedom to imagine and to feel psychic reality.

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James Hillman
1998
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The Man Behind the Myth: Should We Question the Hero’s Journey?

Campbell claimed his theory, which has gone on to influence everything from Star Wars to Disney’s Aladdin, arose from a universal structure inherent in the global myths of antiquity. The problem is, that’s a lie. Campbell’s theory is as mythological as the stories from which it borrows.

Article
Sarah E. Bond, Joel Christensen
2021
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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.

Movie
2011
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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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The Mythic Journey: Use Myths, Fairy Tales, and Folklore to Explain Life's Mysteries

Greek gods, Norse heroes, Polynesian tricksters, and Native American warriors--they all have lessons to teach us. Since the beginning of time, human beings have relied on myths, fairy tales, and fables to explain life's mysteries.

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Liz Greene, Juliet Sharman-Burke
2017
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The Gifts of a Mythic Life

Myth is not a no thing, an insubstantial conceptual will-o'-the-wisp. It is coded into our cells and waters the seas of the unconscious. It dwells in our little finger and plays along the spine as well as the spirit.

Article
Jean Houston
2013
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