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From a Award Winning Author of "Northern Lore", comes "Northern Wisdom".
The Orient has prolonged common a ancient wisdom, and so now do a Northmen. Northern Wisdom presents ancient Viking parables and believe in a delightfully permitted complicated format.
Combining Teachings on standard with Buddha, Lao Tzu, Myamoto Musashi, Nicollo Machiavelli & Sun-Tzu , "The Havamal" sheds light on lost science of a dim ages.
In a days of a shield-wall, there still lived poets, scribes and philosophers.
In Northern Wisdom we will:
- Journey by a Mundane and a Mystical passages of a Havamal
- Discover a famed Hospitality of a Northmen
- Learn Maxims for important control
- Develop a Leadership traits of Heroes
- Explore tips for protected transport in Dark Ages Europe
- Uncover lessons for a bravest Warriors
- Share in a secrets of Odin's Love Quests
- Tap into a energy of Viking Magic
Packing One Book? Look no further.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #195804 in Books
- Published on: 2012-01-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 238 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"..It also puts in viewpoint a attitudes and personalities still manifest in a suggestion of a contemporary Northern Europeans while explaining a meanings of several terms whose mystic stress have turn vaporous in a mists of time."
- Diana Driver, Author of "The Ninth Lord of a Night"
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With a recover of Northern Wisdom...Odinsson opens doors that have been closed...in a ubiquitous open when it comes to a believe and utterance of a Norse/Germanic ancestors. I'm both rarely tender and vehement about a intensity for a book like this."
- Stefn Thorsman, Former Head of Clergy of a Asatru Folk Assembly
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Odinsson writes with a clarity and ability usually accessible from someone who deeply and entirely understands a material. [He] demystifies a verses while maintaining a verse's meanings by charity a modernized chronicle followed by a Key Words..."
- Diana Driver, Author of "The Ninth Lord of a Night"
About a Author
Canadian born Eoghan Odinsson is an endowment winning publisher and author with a lifelong passion for a believe of a Northern forefathers - or "folk lore". Literally, a believe of a people.
Graduating from a University of Aberdeen in Scotland with his Masters of Science degree, he subsequently taught for a University, and was a thesis confidant for connoisseur students.
In further to his educational background, Eoghan also binds a Black Belt in Chito-Ryu Karate, and has taught Martial Arts in Canada and a USA.
Eoghan has only returned from a 10 year widen operative in a Washington D.C. area, and is now behind in his local Ottawa Valley where he lives with his wife, son and 3 dogs.
Please be certain to revisit his website during eoghanodinsson.com
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4 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
By Diana L. Driver
Eoghan Odinsson's Northern Wisdom: The Havamal, Tao of a Vikings is some-more than a modernization of a correct Havamal sayings. It also puts in viewpoint a attitudes and personalities still manifest in a suggestion of a contemporary Northern Europeans while explaining a meanings of several terms whose mystic stress have turn vaporous in a mists of time.
Northern Wisdom: The Havamal, Tao of a Vikings is divided into sections. Before removing to a Havamal, itself, Odinsson includes a really critical introduction in that Odinsson offers his educational qualifications, his reasons for this letter this book, and a tour that has led him to this sold book during this sold time. He also includes a shining letter on a Northern Peoples created by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, for his (Hearn's) Japanese students during a Tokyo Imperial University.
The Havamal is not usually a book of correct verses such as The Wisdom for Wanderers, Maxims for Men, and Lessons for Lovers, though it also is a story of Odin's Quest for a Runes and The Song of Spells. Odinsson writes with a clarity and ability usually accessible from someone who deeply and entirely understands a material. Odinsson demystifies a verses while maintaining a verse's meanings by charity a modernized chronicle followed by a Key Words and afterwards a hymn created in Old Verse.
These correct sayings of The Havamal are usually as critical in today's time as they were in a days of a Vikings and Eoghan Odinsson's Northern Wisdom: The Havamal, Tao of a Vikings fills a most indispensable niche. we rarely suggest this book.
Diana L. Driver
3 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By Stefn Thorsman
With a recover of Northern Wisdom: The Havamal, Tao of a Vikings, Eoghan Odinsson opens doors that have been closed, or during slightest usually partially non-stop for many in a ubiquitous open when it comes to a knowledge and utterance of a Norse/Germanic ancestors. I'm both rarely tender and vehement about a intensity for a book like this. There are so many "newbies" in complicated Heathenry as good as others that are seeking a Folk way, though when they confront a unknown languages, impression of poetry, and kennings, they get disheartened and demeanour for easier trail that's some-more simply understood. Eoghan Odinsson has solved this quandary by charity a Folk approach and it's knowledge in a approach that's simply understood, though nonetheless strikes with a knowledge and summary of a originals. Eoghan has finished a good use to a Folk with this book and I'm certain that it will be good perceived not usually in a Heathen community, though with a ubiquitous open as well!
3 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By Erin Lale
Book examination by Erin Lale, author of Asatru For Beginners, of Northern Wisdom: The Havamal, Tao of a North by Eoghan Odinsson
This book starts with an introduction explaining how a author's martial humanities credentials led him to review a Havamal to a Tao. Then there is a open domain letter by Patrick Hearn on a impression of a English and Northern peoples illustrated by quotes from a Havamal and other sources, creatively created for an assembly of Hearn's Japanese university students. It draws some engaging parallels between ancient Japan and a ancient North.
The rest of a book is a Havamal itself, with a author's modernized verses appearing along with an comparison English interpretation by Henry Adam Bellows. The modernized verses are good translations in complicated English, nonetheless a occasional deputy with a referent to a complicated appurtenance like a automobile might not be to a ambience of all readers. All in all, this book is a good, plain refurbish on a informed primitive English translations of a Havamal.
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