Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature

by Christopher Abram

Book Overview

Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will nolonger support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok originated in Iceland, a nation whose volcanic activity places it perpetually on the brink of a world-changing environmental catastrophe. As the first full-length...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813942276
• ISBN13: 9780813942278
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"