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Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
4.0

An excellent audio book to listen to while on a road trip. Gaiman does a marvelous job narrating and I enjoyed his take on Norse Myths. His Thor is quite different from Marvel Thor and closer to the Thor from one of my favorite shows, The Almighty Johnsons. That show gave me the bug to take a deeper dive into Norse mythology, check it out if you haven't seen it!

I wrote down a few of my favorite "vocabulary words" so I thought I'd share:

Fimbulwinter - never ending winter preceding Ragnarok
Jorgmungundr - Midgard serpent (also subject of one of my favorite paintings at the Milwaukee Art Museum)
Sleipnir - eight-legged horse, ridden by Odin, son of Loki and
Svadilfari - horse used to help build a wall to keep giants out
Yggdrasil - world tree