The Search for Óðinn: From Pontic Steppe to Sutton Hoo (Hardcover) WHOLESALE-HIDE describing the ritual of obtaining

describing the ritual of obtaining the witches amulet known as the toad-bone

date to the 17th and 18th centuries

Cheryl Straffon expertly guides us through a realm of traditional tales

but at the risk of them being 'overlooked' (ill-wished or bewitched)

The Search for Óðinn: From Pontic Steppe to Sutton Hoo (Hardcover) WHOLESALE-HIDE describing the ritual of obtainingAuthor: Shani Oates inn has been scandalised and deified in equal measure by medieval churchmen, demonising pre Christian beliefs, and more recently by the romantic idealists and nationalists of the 20th Century, who glamorised them, to the extent that the genuine historical persona of this popular figure is saturated in complex, confusing mythology. Poetic kennings and riddles tease out our deductive processes, pushing beyond rational, logistic