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The Magic of Yggdrasill: The Poetry of Old Norse Unconscious by Yves Kodratoff (Paperback, 2020)

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The Magic of Yggdrasill: The Poetry of Old Norse Unconscious, ISBN 1627342907, ISBN-13 9781627342902, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK Drawing primarily on the ideas of C. G. Jung, Kodratoff argues that what Old Norse literature calls magic is what modern psychologists call the unconscious. His first goal is to identify aspects of Norse magic that exist in the 13th-century Icelandic Poetic Edda that modern translations miss because they must use a modern vocabulary that changes magic to religion. He covers magic and divine beings and heroes, digging out magic behaviors and the relationships among them, how reliable the Poetic Edda is, and four archetypal images carried by the poems "Hávamál" and "Völuspá. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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This book took its start with the author's realization that what Old Norse calls 'magic' can be understood as 'unconscious', as stated by C. G. Jung: (we find) magical means everything where unconscious influences are at work. This book reveals the existence of several Norse words specifically dedicated to magic, as are 'skoep', for instance, and it details the magic they carry with them. In our modern civilization these skop still exist but their magical nature is no longer obvious, though this point can be disputed. Once this magic is discovered and acknowledged, it becomes possible to infer from Norse poetry the existence and handling of unconscious archetypes within its associated myths. A few of them have been analyzed in detail and this enabled us to better understand some surprising traits of this mythology... up to detecting 'magical spells' imbedded within Norse poetry (they are usually dubbed as 'Galdralag ). The book ends by sending to the readers a positive of such 'spells' by which Odinn self-increased his thoughts and deeds, as given in Havamal. The book aims at four logically connected targets: 1) spotting Poetic Edda stanzas using a vocabulary calling upon magic for improving our knowledge of ancient Norse magic, 2) checking that no convincing proof of Christian influences on Poetic Edda had been provided by the academic community, 3) spotting a few images of Old Norse unconscious archetypes, and 4) finding a few typical instances of the Eddaic meter called Galdralag ( incantation meter ).