A compact survey of what the pagan Scandinavians believed and how they worshipped. Craigie draws on the sagas and Eddas to describe Odin, Thor, Frey and the other gods, the guardian spirits called dísir and the sacrifices made to them, temples and priests, and ideas of fate and the afterlife.
A reliable short introduction by a great philologist, later an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Download the free EPUB.