But the myths are the original ones, if one can use that word. The language is a little more contemporary, Gaiman has included those myths that Green would have left out of a children’s edition, and his writing reflects modern concerns a little more. Now, Gaiman has written his own edition of the Norse myths for a popular audience. Here, he took even more liberties with them, dropping Odin into turn-of-the-millennium US, and turning him into a down-and-out conman called Mr Wednesday. Gaiman also added his own twist to the myths, bringing Loki back in the climax of Sandman to be outsmarted by an even more twisted trickster.Īlmost a decade later, Gaiman, by then a novelist, revisited the Norse pantheon in his American Gods. Marvel Comics’ blond and noble-thinking Thor had served as Gaiman’s own introduction to the Norse gods, but Gaiman had gone on to read Roger Lancelyn Green’s Myths Of The Norsemen, and introduced comics readers to Norse gods who more closely resembled the ones from Green’s book: a drunk and aggressive Thor and a devious Odin. In the early 1990s, Gaiman was writing The Sandman for DC Comics, and he brought Odin, Thor and Loki on as supporting characters. In Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman swings back to the characters he had begun his career with.
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