Favorite Norse Myths

Scholastic Inc., 1996 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 87 pages

A collection of rarely retold tales from the "Elder Edda" and the "Younger Edda", two six-hundred-year-old Norse Manuscripts.

Contents

• CREATION THE NINE WORLDS: 1
• ODINS THREE QUESTS: 9
• THE MAGIC STALLION: 14
• HOW THOR GOT HIS HAMMER: 20
• LOKIS CHILDREN: 27
• THE GIANTS BRIDE: 33
• THE GOLDEN APPLES: 36
• THE FAIREST FEET: 43
• SPELL OF THE GIANT KING: 47
• MARRIAGE OF THE ICE MAIDEN: 53
• THE GIANTS CAULDRON: 58
• THOR AND THE CLAY GIANT: 65
• THE DEATH OF BALDER: 70
• TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: 77
• MORE ABOUT THE NORSE MYTHS: 81
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 87

About the author

Mary Pope Osborne was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on May 20, 1949. She grew up in a military family, and by the time she was 15 she had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in religion. After graduation, she traveled around Europe and Asia. Before becoming an author, she worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, a Russian travel consultant, a waitress, an acting teacher, a bartender, and an assistant editor for a children's magazine. Her first book, Run, Run as Fast as You Can, was published in 1982. She is the author of the Magic Tree House series and the Merlin Missions series. Her husband, actor Will Osborne, helps her write the nonfiction companion series, Magic Tree House Research Guides. Her other books include The Deadly Power of Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts, Haunted Waters, and Moonhorse.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Favorite Norse Myths
• Illustrated by: Troy Howell
• Contributor: Mary Pope Osborne
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc., 1996
• ISBN: 0590480472, 9780590480475
• Length: 87 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / Norse; Juvenile Nonfiction / Religion / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Science / Folklore & Mythology