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   From: jon.lennart.beck.its.my.name@mail.its.in.danmark   
      
   "Taemon"  skrev i meddelelsen   
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   > Fired up by the Avengers movie (which I found mediocre, although   
   > enjoyable) my love for Northern mythology has been rekindled, and   
   > especially the figure of Loki, who has been my favourite god from the   
   > moment I first learned of him. Or her. You know, with the horse.   
      
   > I would like to learn more. Can anyone here point me in the direction of   
   > some good studies on Norse mythologies? And I don't mean a collection of   
   > the stories per se - I have read most of them. The local online bookstore   
   > (yes, there is such a thing as a local online store) has plenty of books   
   > on the subject, but without much of a description or abstract to them, so   
   > I wouldn't know what to choose.   
      
      One flippant retelling of the old stories is the Danish Valhalla comics:   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla_(comics) .  But that is perhaps not   
   quite what you had in mind. :-)   
      
   Raafje.   
      
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