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From: canders@isr.harvard.edu (Carl E. Anderson)
Date: 15 Mar 93 01:22:53 GMT

	I hope no one minds my throwing in a few annotations of my own.
>Crossley-Holland, Kevin. The Norse Myths. New York: Pantheon. 1980.

	This is a very good retelling.  The introduction is quite
informative too.

>Ellis-Davidson, Hilda Roderick. Gods and Myths of Northern Europe.
>Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1964.
>
>Ellis-Davidson, Hilda Roderick. Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe:
>Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions. Syracuse: University
>Press. 1988.
>
>Ellis-Davidson, Hilda Roderick. Scandinavian Mythology. New York:
>Paul Hamlyn. 1969.

	Ellis-Davidson is an excellent scholar, and writes very clearly.

>Gundarsson, Kveldulfr. Teutonic Magic: the Magical and Spiritual
>Practices of the Germanic Peoples. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn. 1990.
>
>Gundarsson, Kveldulr. Teutonic Religion. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn.
>(forthcoming probably 1993).

	I have to admit that I haven't actually, uh, _read_ Kveldulf's
books.  But from email contact, I can say that he seems a very cool
individual and a good scholar to boot.

>Pennick, Nigel. Practical Magic in the Northern Tradition.
>N.p.:Aquarian Press. 1989.

	As I've said before, lots of cool folklore.  Very odd analysis
and interpretations.

>Pennick, Nigel. Runic Astrology. N.p.:Aquarian Press. 1990.
>          [A strange conglomeration of runes, tarot, and the zodiac. Not
>          useful at all.]
>          (Grendel's Note: I like it but it is definatly not traditional.)

	I agree with Grendel.  Again there is some cool folklore, and
the rest of Pennick's weird interps are extremely _interesting_ if
nothing like trad ;)

>Thorsson, Edred. FUTHARK: A Handbook of Rune Magic. York Beach, ME:
>Samuel Weiser. 1984.
>
>Thorsson, Edred. Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology. York
>Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser. 1987.

	If it's at all possible to get hold of Stephen Flowers (aka
E.  Thorsson) book _Runes & Magic_ (probably have to be special
ordered) it's a very thorough and scholarly investigation of
historical runic magic.

From: canders@isr.harvard.edu (Carl E. Anderson)
Date: 15 Mar 93 01:40:54 GMT

>The Prose Edda, Jean Young translation (basic mythology)

	I think that the Anthony Faulkes trans, _Edda_ from Everyman
Library should be recommended instead.  It's just been published in
the US in the last 6 months or so, and contains a _complete_
translation of _Snorra edda_ which I don't think the Young version
does.

	Randomly, I also recommend R.I. Page's _Runes_, which while
hardly a groundbreaking piece of scholarship is a very good intro to
runes.  Nothing really on magic - Page is a very skeptical runologist
;) - but there's enough of a historical grounding on runic basics that
anyone can draw their own conclusions other writings about runes
afterwards.

From: mimir@stein.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
Date: 15 Mar 1993 06:41:59 GMT

>>Pennick, Nigel. Runic Astrology. N.p.:Aquarian Press. 1990.
>>          [A strange conglomeration of runes, tarot, and the zodiac. Not
>>          useful at all.]
>>          (Grendel's Note: I like it but it is definatly not traditional.)
>
>	I agree with Grendel.  Again there is some cool folklore, and the
>rest of Pennick's weird interps are extremely _interesting_ if nothing like
>trad ;)

 I was unimpressed by his latest on rune magic (though I did get a
chuckle out of the fact that someone turned his cover illustration
backwards. He has a picture of a Runestone with everything facing the
wrong way!).

>>Thorsson, Edred. FUTHARK: A Handbook of Rune Magic. York Beach, ME:
>>Samuel Weiser. 1984.
>>
>>Thorsson, Edred. Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology. York
>>Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser. 1987.
>
>	If it's at all possible to get hold of Stephen Flowers (aka E.
>Thorsson) book _Runes & Magic_ (probably have to be special ordered) it's a
>very thorough and scholarly investigation of historical runic magic.

 I have the University of Washington copy here with me at this
moment. I'm going to photocopy it this week after I get paid since it
is out of print.

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