“ The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. A.S. Byatt
“ The three sons of Bor had no liking for Ymir... At last they attacked Ymir and killed him. His wounds were like springs; so much blood streamed from them and so fast, that the flood drowned all the fr… Kevin Crossley-Holland
“ He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them into trouble.Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters… Neil Gaiman
“ I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women. Sarah Moss
“ Those movies... ridiculously inaccurate. The real gods of Asgard — Thor, Loki, Odin, and the rest — are much more powerful, much more terrifying than anything Hollywood could concoct. Rick Riordan
“ I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.Had Ragnaro… Neil Gaiman
