Odin's Whisper: Death and the Vikings
Neil Price


Paperback | Aug 2019 | REAKTION BOOKS | 9781780232904 | 344pp | 250x190mm | RFB | AUD$62.99, NZD$74.99

Odin's Whisper provides the first full treatment of this subject, giving an in-depth account that uses the stories of Norse mythology and the most recent archaeological evidence to draw a vivid picture of the Viking mind. Neil Price contextualizes their understanding of death within the "Ragnarok," the immense battle of living and dead, gods and humans that would ultimately consume all the world in fire, to illustrate that the Vikings' conception of the afterlife was only ever viewed as a respite before this ultimate end.