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“The Witch’s Heart is a really accomplished piece of work. In it, Genevieve Gornichec identifies quite a few of the giantess figures in Old Norse myth as a single person. This person is Angrboda, who is the mother of Loki’s children, the monstrous children: the wolf, the serpent and Hel. She is in a feud with Odin, because she has the knowledge of a particular kind of magic called seid. Odin has killed her and thrown her burnt heart out into the wasteland, but she has regenerated and is now living far away from the gods in a cave.” Read more...
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Carolyne Larrington, Literary Scholar
“The Witch’s Heart is the exact kind of book I’m actively seeking at the moment – books that enrich and broaden women’s stories from both history and mythology. Books that fill in the woman-shaped gaps in our past. Book that give voices to female characters who have been sidelined and silenced in the very tales in which they appear.” Read more...
