{"product_id":"b0h7r8k4wp","title":"Daughters of Asgard - The Norse Goddesses and Fate-Weavers Who Built the Nine Worlds: From Freyja’s Hall to the Well of Wyrd - Women at the Center of Norse Myth (The Norse Mythology Library Book 4)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe history of  Norse Mythology  has long been told beneath the shadow of the hammer. Odin seeks wisdom. Thor defends the realms. Loki breaks the order of the gods. Ragnarök burns the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut who wove the fate that even Odin could not escape?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDaughters of Asgard  restores the forgotten women at the center of the Norse cosmos: the goddesses, Valkyries, Norns, giantesses, völvas, seiðr-workers, and fate-weavers who shaped the Nine Worlds from within. This is not a soft retelling of passive divine wives and background figures. It is a fierce, atmospheric, deeply researched exploration of the female powers hidden beneath the surviving Eddas, sagas, grave goods, and mythic fragments of the Viking Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside this book, you will discover Freyja not merely as a goddess of love, but as a sovereign force of magic, war, wealth, desire, and death. You will meet Frigg as the silent strategist who knows all fates, the Norns as the cosmic weavers who maintain Yggdrasil itself, and the Valkyries as terrifying choosers of the slain rather than decorative servants of Valhalla. You will enter the cold dominion of Hel, the mountain wrath of Skadi, the world-ending motherhood of Angrboda, and the sacred authority of the völva, whose iron staff symbolized a power even kings were forced to respect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDaughters of Asgard explores:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFreyja, Frigg, Hel, Skadi, Angrboda, the Norns, Valkyries, and other powerful women of Norse mythology The role of seiðr magic, prophecy, Wyrd, fate-weaving, and the völva in the Viking world How Christian scribes and later interpreters reduced complex goddesses into wives, temptresses, monsters, or footnotes The connection between Viking Age women, grave goods, keys, staffs, weaving, and sacred authority Why the feminine divine is essential to understanding Odin, Thor, Ragnarök, Yggdrasil, and the Nine Worlds Written for readers of Norse mythology books, Viking history, pagan mythology, women in mythology, and ancient goddess traditions, this book offers a bold new way to read the myths of the North. It looks beyond the familiar stories of warriors and gods to recover the women who spoke prophecy, guarded the dead, chose the slain, commanded magic, and held the threads of destiny in their hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe hammer may shatter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe spear may pierce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut fate is woven.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924587938037,"sku":"YSL53229","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/81_WSysrSAL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673278","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0h7r8k4wp","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}