Hi, my name is Nick star I'm at Rome's librarian at the library and
today, I'm going to talk about Neil Gaiman's book of Norse mythology that erupted it's a
collection of some of the stories from Norse mythology that he collected over
About eight years that
He went back and revisited and his publishers finally grasped them into actually publishing the book
he provides a really good introduction about explaining how he fell in love with the
Norse mythology stories from reading the Marvel Comics as a kid and reading about Thor who is nothing like the
ginger bearded farting belching
not the brightest person and
Norse mythology and
Kind of goes and brings those stories to life and he tells it in his own voice
So it's not really a dry telling it's very much in Neil Gaiman's voice. So he's also written
American Gods Coraline
Good Omens the graveyard book a number of other stories. So it's very much told in his
tone of voice so
They're really funny for what some of the stories are and some of the rocky pretty sad
More so than the other versions I've ever read
but I
he also kind of introduces at the beginning kind of very vaguely the different lands like in Nagas gap and Yaeger cell and
mostly focuses on Odin Loki and Thor as the three main kind of
Most important characters in Norse mythology. So the stories that he picks to retell in this collection are mostly about them and
I was fortunate enough to go see Neil Gaiman live a couple of weeks ago and he was reading a couple of stories from this
So I went back onto
cupola and
Was listen to the audio version that he reads up in it, and he does a really good job of reading these stories, too
So if you are able to go through over driver at Google
I would also like recommend actually going listening marine because he does a phenomenal job of reading these stories
Of ice storm
Neil Gaiman did say that every always test sticks now
Because in the in the Marvel comic like the first Marvel comic the guy some weird doctor is walking around gets stuck in the cave
so
In the comic he picks up like a stick for some reason and like bangs it against the cave and it turns into mold here
and he magically turns into Thor so like
Yeah
And like ever since he was a kid and you've read that you always pick up
Absolutely
Yes, how you know just to see if maybe he turns inside
No, I will be interested in how the
writers of those comics first latched on to in Norse mythology because Greek and Roman mythology are pretty
Yeah
No, we have work connections buh-burn their comics isn't
No, wait, I just changed your hair and he farts and burps and he's
Like he's that beautiful modern Goldilocks
so how is
The Marvel movies, how are they different from actual Norse mythology just briefly
They're mostly different I mean
They get like the basic points like Thor does have bull near the hammer over loses and I
low-key
Like the relationship with this pemmican all pathology is kind of a wish wash with you washing
Like there's like no very clearly. This person was obviously in this relation. So that like Neil Gaiman kind of as
Loki being almost more of a sibling to podium rather than in like the Marvel Comics Thor and Loki are
brothers or adoptive brothers
But they kind of hit like the main points and they at least use a lot of the terms the right way so frezz
vague as mythology can be they do a decent job, but Thor
Isn't like Norse mythology authorities, but the long beautiful hair
Isn't really what floors ever to think books are in
Norse mythology, he's always
fairly dumb and
Just waits
Likes running around and hitting things like he's very like macho man who doesn't think about things and he gets his hammer
He likes painting stuff and throwing it
Which isn't really that these particular comics they kind of make her a little more regal
