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Elves, Wights, and Trolls: Studies Towards the Practice of Germanic Heathenry: Vol. I (v. 1) Paperback – March 4, 2007

by Kveldulf Gundarsson (Author)
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  • Series: Studies Towards the Practice of Germanic Heathenry
  • Paperback: 184 pages
  • Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (March 4, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0595421652
  • ISBN-13: 978-0595421657
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Long Needed Book
By Joseph Bloch on August 15, 2007
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This book on the lore, folklore, and most importantly practical interaction with the spirits of Germanic religion is long needed. The author combines both ancient and modern lore about elves, land-spirits, and jotuns, and includes a few anecdotes of his own personal experiences to round the whole out. I would have liked to see a little more information about regional differences in the folklore between England, Scotland, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, etc. and the author glosses over the problem of connecting the wight-lore of pre-Christian times with that of recent times, sometimes juxtaposing 19th and 10th century sources without consideration of the time differential (a problem for which there is an elegant solution, to be named later).

But the problems with this book are minor. It is most certainly required reading for any Asatruar or Theodsman wishing to expand their religion beyond the honoring of the Aesir. The plethora of practical examples and advice, culled from a variety of sources not ordinarily available to English-speaking audiences, is well worth the price alone.

I hope that the next volume in this series will deal as thoroughly with the house-spirits as this deals with the spirits of stone, spring, and tree. It is well worth the money; buy this book.
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3.0 out of 5 starsGood information, poorly written
By Thomas J. Webb on September 8, 2007
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The author suffers, ironically, from knowing too much about the subject. The job of any writer isn't to put every single piece of information they could possibly conceive onto paper but to inform the listener in a way that assures the ideas will be absorbed, remembered and useful. Failing that, the author's job is to be entertaining. This book fails on all counts since it is tiresome to read and easy to lose track of what you're even reading about.

Common problems include:

1. The author partially translates words (maretorn means mara-thorn. Ah, of course! so what's a mara?)
2. He tries too hard to find cohesiveness about myths that aren't even consistent with themselves. He said towards the beginning that concepts about wights, alfs, trolls, et al greatly overlap and he should've left it at that.
3. Worst of all: each section will have countless information about the subject at hand, aspects of the subject often being separated into paragraphs! It makes the text hard to follow.
4. Use of parenthesis breaks up what are already long sentences. I personally would've preferred if those parenthetical statements, along with bottom-of-the-page captions, were all just numbered notes at the end of each chapter. But any system is better than the one that was used.
5. Since the author condenses so many stories into so little space, we are given only a taste of what are each, individually, very fascinating stories! The more I read the book, the more I feel all the author has to do is clean excesses out and expand on a smaller number of stories to illustrate his points.

Weak readability aside, this books is packed with information that any scholar of the history of religion or of Germanic peoples would find interesting.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsNot for the novice
By Spence the Elder on April 17, 2007
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WARNING, this book is not for the novice Heathen/Asatru reader! Having said that you should buy it anyway and put it on your bookshelf for later use, (considering the bad habit Mr. Gundarsson's books have of going out of print and then showing up on ebay for 10 time's their original cost). This is by far the most comprehensive work on the subject of Land Wights, (of all types), that I have read so far. While I do not consider myself to be novice in Norse Lore, I found myself running for the reference books on more than one occasion while reading this work. Gundarsson has tightly packed more credible information in these 160 or so pages than most authors can in books three times this size. `I say to the Author, Well done Sir! I await Vol. II.

In Frith,
Spence the Elder

"Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc"
M. Addams
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5.0 out of 5 starsAt home with the Land Spirits
By S. Plowright on July 18, 2007
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Gundarsson's encyclopedic knowledge of Old Norse & Germanic literature never fails to amaze. This book packs more information into fewer words than his previous works. It really brings the entities of Northern Lore to life without taking detours into undocumented fantasy. This is real scholarship, simply presented, and preserved for Heathens with care. A must for those who want to understand the characters that often hide in the shadows of our legends, yet play such an important part.

Some may find it heavy going, as the style is quite academic, and it constantly refers back to the sources. However, this gives the serious reader confidence in the material, and the student an easy task of finding the original works.

Sweyn
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5.0 out of 5 starsCommunicting with the spirits of the land
By S. Cranow on June 22, 2012
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This book is an excellent little book for those who wish to understand the land and water spirits in Heathen/Norse mythology and of course those who would wish to get into the practice of Asatru. The book is scholarly and the author makes plenty of reference to source material all of which is cited in the back for further reference. The author himself has a PHD in in Old Norse from the Cambridge University.

What follows is an awesome book that makes things rather clear. First off to mention wights are spiritual being that are connected to the land. Going through Norse material it seems the lines are rather blurry when it comes to distinguishing between the various types of wights, whether they be alfs, dwarves, etins or giants. It seems that the main dividing line could be their relation with human beings as to whether they are harmful or helpful. Another key point worthy of mention is the comparison and contrast to the Sidhe or Irish faery folk. The Germanic or Norse spirits are rather by and large well disposed towards manknind where as the Sidhe or Irish faery folk can be somewhat hostile.

Etins or giants are not only large spirits but are ones that are deemed somewhat harmful for mankind.In some of the lore they harm humans on accident and other times on purpose. Jotuns and Trolls are also considered a species of giant. Trolls are rather ambiguous. It seems from some of the lore that Troll could be a form of magic or that trolls are revenants (formerly dead)

Land spirits seems to be the most positively disposed towards humans. They can give humans advise, healing knowledge of herbs and access to the world of the spirits. Once can also eat of their food and of drink of their beverages.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great information and lots of obscure but valid sources, that are not often found in other english books

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a good source for a less looked at element of Heathenry

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Works great for what I need...

Published 20 months ago by Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 starsGood reference book

This is a good book for references toward elder heathen beliefs if you're looking for something to help you with making offerings to your spirits of land, home, or family.

Published on October 12, 2013 by Boltenhouse
4.0 out of 5 starsFluffy this is not!

This actually reads more like a textbook than I had expected. Kveldulf Gundarsson really documents whats he says in his book. Read more

Published on September 22, 2013 by N. C. Wall
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I was more than impressed by Our Troth Volumes 1 & 2. I was even more impressed when I got this book dealing with the landvaettir. Read more

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