Norse Pagan Books for Beginners AND Advanced Practitioners
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The Norse Gods: amzn.to/3AQAF4g
Poetic Edda (Crawford): amzn.to/3RcvZLl
Prose Edda (Everymans): amzn.to/3cjeZVb
History of Vikings (Jones): amzn.to/3pQ7acG
Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: amzn.to/3pPkluo
Heimskringla: amzn.to/3pLaTYX
Saga of the Icelanders: amzn.to/3wAn3HL
History of the Danes: amzn.to/3KmeExs
Poetic Edda (Old Norse:) amzn.to/3cmLUrE
Old Norse/Icelandic Dictionary: amzn.to/3wz10RS
The Oath by Jason Ralls: amzn.to/3ApbZ1d
Heathenry and the Sea: amzn.to/3POhpZj
Tales of the North (Kirkland): amzn.to/3Koyyry
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0:00-0:52 Intro
0:52-6:45 Books for Beginners
6:45-11:17 Advanced Books
11:17-13:39 Honorable Mentions
#norsepagan #heathen
The Hall needs a little library for the scholarly types! Comfy chairs and all 😍
I'll never leave the hall if there's a library 😂 especially with comfortable chairs.
YESSSSSS!
With candles.....
@@kvitravn6354 Brilliant idea, I reckon I could spend nine days at time pouring over various texts by candlelight in a big chair with a horn of mead. Especially if I can get a pipe or cigar going the hold time. Just leave the cares of world behind.
Book comfy chair add mead on tap I'm there
Yesss I'm glad you mentioned Fairy Tales and folklore, so many kernels of knowledge buried there
This came into my feed at the right time! I've just began to treat the Norse path, so all the help I can get has been much appreciated. Thank you for the video!!💚💚💚
All solid picks. And you make a great point about keeping the faith living and breathing. The measure of a heathens faith should not be in their collection of books or in academic achievements, but their practice.
A statement that should be shouted from the mountains for all to hear!
The Seed of Yggdrasill by Maria Kvilhaug
Good read
Strangest thing, my grandmother gave me that Complete Brother's Grim book when I was young. It was one of the very last things she gave me before she died. I always thought it was weird cause at the time I was a pretty self centered child and didn't know any better about the world - like we all do. However, growing older and growing into Norse paganism, it has come to my attention that might of been for a reason, and for it show up on your list - makes me think of her closet thing I had to a mother. Thank you again for your wisdom as always, Skal.
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For beginners I'd recommend the Prose Edda first, Saga of the Völsungs second, and Poetic Edda third. The prose edda, being prose, is very easy to understand. Saga of the Völsungs has the story of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer, arguably the most important story and again told in prose. Much of the poetic edda is dedicated to telling the same story, but it's a lot more cryptic with more contradictions and such. I love the poetic edda, but especially if you get an antiquated translation, it can be pretty opaque at first. And Jackson Crawford's translation is easier understood, but you lose something of the poetic feel.
Eventually you should try to get into the original language at least a little bit to fully appreciate the poetic edda :)
Thank you for all the suggestions!
Thank you for posting this. I meant to look back on your videos but been busy with harvest of the garden
Amazing Video thanks Jacob 🎉
Great video brother, a nice overview guide of some very good literature to check out. I've got many of these books but I see a few I don't so thank you for the recommendations, I have been practicing for over 12 years, definitely a lot to digest to expand our knowledge and practice.
Hail to the Aesir and Vanir, Skal!
Thank you. I actually took you up on your other recommendations "Asatru for beginners". It's a very short and pleasant read! I got some inspiration out of it and I like that the author seems to be completely unprejudiced.
The Grimm brothers are so fascinating. They did so much for German language, our folklore and basically uniting a nation through that, or trying to, that was and still is not a real nation.
I always struggle with book recommendations though. I'm German and our faith was once the same or very similar, but it is insanely hard to find books about it or books in German in general. My English is good, but I often find it hard to read english translations. I had that problem when reading the Finnish Kalevala. The english translation wasn't for me and I got the German one. But yes, it's hard to find good books about norse pagnism in German and I'm not always in the mood to dig through early 19 hundreds books and filter what is true and what is propaganda. There are some useful books there, but it's a very hard read.
Haha and no, not getting the Edda in old norse. I struggled with Das Nibelungenlied in old German already....
Yes! I just ordered Myths and
Symbols for my TBR (to be read) stack! I'm currently reading PaGaian Cosmology by Dr. Glenys Livingston. The first chapter hinted at more information to come on stone circles and creating them for individual ritual and meditation. I think I'm having a nerdgasm.
incredible
Thank you Jacob for the insight, knowledge, and understanding. Skòl 💀🍻
The only book I don't have that is on this list is the very first book you show :) My birthday is coming up in November, so that is now on my birthday list for my husband :) Thanks!
The Viking Spirit by McCoy is a good one for beginners as well
Odin is with us❤
I have to say if it wasn't for this channel, I wouldn't own half the materials/books I do now on my Norse path that I honestly knew very little about to begin with. Thank you!
Hi Jacob. Good video. Have you read Seeds of Yggdrasill by Maria Kvillhaug (she does the Lady of the Labyrinth TH-cam channel)?
I've had a copy of the Grimms Fairytales for years 😂 it's the Barnes and Noble edition, i got it cuz it was pretty
I have been reading a lot of old norse booke and i am just curious as a believer and follower of Norse Paganasim what are your thoughts on stuff like the creation story or earthquakes being caused by venom being dripped on Lokis face?
what about Carolyne Larrington's translation of the Poetic Edda?
Does anyone have any recommendations on learning old norse?
10:15 Agricola! I’ve been saying Angolia for so long and no ones ever corrected me ;-;
I think this would be a really cute trend, showing how one gathered their knowledge through literature - we would all be exposed to so many new books! #mypaganlibrary anyone? Thank you for another great and informative video, Jake.
How close is germanic paganism and norse paganism? From what I have been reading they are very similar, but if I am wrong please let me know. Thank you very much for all of the information you have been putting out on your channel
thats one of those things your going to have to learn for yourself through studying, both have a lot of similarities but their are a lot of differences as well.
I’ve read Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sagas by H.A. Guerber, and while it was a great supplement to the Poetic Edda, I was turned off by her use of the word “ignorant” when referring to the Pagans of the viking age. It was 1908 & she was a Christian, but still..
I'd advise any Germanic pagan to read Proclus or the Platonic school to get a idea of polytheistic theology.
Have you thought about writing a book yourself directly on North paganism that would be specifically on the religion itself combining the knowledge that you have learned over the years
I do not have sound in his video at all.
Can you upload this video with sound?
No one has had this issue before. It must be something on your end for some reason. Sorry 🤷♂️
Any God pole carvers near beckly wv will pay for a carving on site
Happy little Heathens has books for children xoxoxo
Don’t forget Beowulf
Gotta be honest as a Norse pagan I do get upset seeing channels/videos sharing knowledge and advice with the modern world on how to practice the Ásatrú religion. People treat it as a fad, corporations profit off of it, no respect or dignity is given to the religion or the ones practicing it.