NorsePlay.

The hard truth is that at the end of the post-conversion night, what we mostly have left of the Norse Gods are the  Edda s. And the fact is  you want more NorsePlay . We know from the  Edda s' passing references there were tons more stories. And from within an oral tradition, all these tales were surely told & retold in many differing versions with emphasis placed or displaced depending on the audiences' points of interest or the skald's creative leanings. So when Norse Lore believers/followers/fans get bent that so-and-so told it "wrong" or added/subtracted things, there's an ancient & liberal precedent being celebrated with these differences. In this vein of expansive storytelling license, there's obviously  Marvel's 1962 to now superhero take , but during that period Norse lore has been remixed by other daring authors, which we will survey here: Dennis Schmidt's  Twilight of the Gods  (1985-1987) trilogy as prequel/re-interpretive, an