Valhalla The Myths of Norseland

All Twelve chapters of Julia Clinton Jones, were inspired by the collection of Old Norse poems, called the Elder of Poetic Edda. What a curious fact it is, that among us, English speaking people, scholarly investigation has clung rather to the classic lore and mythology of Greece and Rome, than to the less classic, but far purer and truer religion of the North. In Valhalla, the ?sir-Heaven, assembled the gods,--all personifications of divine or earthly powers. Thence they watched over Midgard (Earth). Their various adventures are but mythical representations of the strife between Light and Darkness, Spirit and Matter, Virtue and Vice;--Nature disturbed by natural causes of ill, and man's soul torn by lusts and evil passions. ? Julia Clinton JonesClinton-Jones, Julia is the author of 'Valhalla The Myths of Norseland', published 2002 under ISBN 9781589638891 and ISBN 1589638891.