GODs of The North | Brian Branston

GODs of the North is about the folklore of the Vikings, Angels, Saxons and Jutes and how it has molded societies, dialects and later religions. The creator Brian Branston states that a legend resembles a fantasy; an immediate articulation of the oblivious personality, and the occasions of a legend, its characters and images are to humankind as the occasions, characters and images of his fantasy are to the person. Like a fantasy the legend may overlook the customary rationale of reality connections, of occasions tailing in a steady progression in a causal arrangement. In any case, a fantasy has a significance which can be made plain; thus has a legend. It is difficult to decipher the fantasies of our own way of life, for our close progenitors those of a thousand odd years prior were influenced to overlook them or to consign their messed up remainders to the nursery. The Gods of the North were sometime in the distant past the divine forces of our progenitors. The fossilized survives from these gods make due set up names for example, as Wansdyke, Wednesbury, Wensley, Tuesley and Thundersley; in the names of the times of the week, as Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; in old stories and fantasy with their accounts of witches on broomsticks.
The mythology of the Vikings, Angels, Saxons and Jutes and how it has shaped later cultures.
Written by: Brian Branston
Published by: Thames and Hudson
Edition: Second
ISBN: 500 11003 4
Available in: E book