Publishing is like Knitting Fog: Weaving from the fog of secrecy

Deciphering the hidden messages
in Old Norse Myths

The Seed of Yggdrasil - deciphering the hidden messages in Old Norse Myths by Maria Kvilhaug, is a book long awaited by Mythology fans, Pagans seeking basis for ritual, and by the general academic historical society interested in the roots of Northern and Western culture.

'1643 AD: The bishop of Iceland, Brynjolv Sveinsson, received an ancient leather manuscript already 500 years old. It had been hidden away for hundreds of years, from the Church authorities. Brynjolv realized that a long lost ancestral treasure had been recovered. Ancient legends and myths speak out from the leathery pages through the almost forgotten language of poetical metaphors.'

This is a fresh and exciting view on a very original subject and an authoritative peeling back of the layers of secrecy and time.

In her first dissertation The Lady with the Mead, Kvilhaug explored the fundamental thematic structure of several Edda poems rendering what could only be explained as a Pagan initiation ritual.

Such a discovery challenges any notion held by some critics that the Old Norse myths simply reflect the time in which they were written down, which was well after Christianity was introduced.
The discovery of the ritual structure of the myths and the detailed accounts of the various stages of the ritual experience, strongly suggests that the myths do in fact reflect Pagan religious practices.
Due out in Autumn, 2012, this much awaited book can be pre-ordered now through Amazon

- Whyte Tracks ApS, Denmark