The myths and legends of the Nordics have fascinated readers and listeners all over the world for centuries. The collection you hold in your hands brings compelling stories from Icelandic Eddic poems and heroic songs, as well as sagas from the vanished world of the Vikings. These treasures of the ancient years of the early Middle Ages are the main source of our knowledge about Norse mythology and about life at that time. They were apparently created already in the 9th and 10th centuries, at first they were passed down only in the form of oral narration and were not written down until the 12th-13th centuries. century. Norse mythology brings us closer to the actions of powerful gods, such as the wise Odin, the warrior Thor, the brave Tyr, the cunning Loki or the charming Freyja. It presents the plots of malevolent ice giants, tells about magical creatures and fairy-tale treasures. It will transport readers to Asgard, the home of the gods, to Midgard, inhabited by humans, and to other mysterious worlds that together form the Yggdrasil tree, the axis of the universe. These stories are also reflected in contemporary culture and still speak to us today across the gap of millennia.