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Illustrations Copyright © 2015 Christina Balit
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All illustrations: Christina Balit.
Photos: 1.2 (INSET), Vito Palmisano/Getty Images; 2.2 (INSET), filmfoto/Shutterstock; 3.2 (INSET), Werner Forman Archive/Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm/Heritage-Images/Art Resource, NY; 4.3 (INSET), Ko Backpacko/Shutterstock; 5.3 (INSET), Oldmantravels/Flickr; 6.2 (INSET), Werner Forman Archive/Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm/Heritage-Images/Art Resource, NY; 7.2 (INSET), Detail of figures illustrating a saga, from the Isle of Gotland (stone) by Viking (9th century), Historiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden/Bridgeman Images; 8.2 (INSET), David Robertson/Alamy; 8.2 (INSET BACK), Chanwut Jukrachai/Shutterstock; 9.2 (INSET), The Market of Tlatelolco, detail from the Great City of Tenochtitlan, from the cycle “Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mexico,” 1945 (mural) (see also 97395), Rivera, Diego (1886–1957)/Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico/Bridgeman Images; 10.2 (INSET), Shutterstock; 11.2 (INSET), © Juan Carlos Munoz/Robert Harding World Imagery; 12.2 (INSET), Fedorov Oleksiy/Shutterstock; 13.2 (INSET), Soldiers for the Norwegian King Sverre, Torstein Skevla and Skjervald Skrukka carrying the king’s son Hakon Hakonsson, 1869 (oil on canvas)/Bridgeman Images; 14.2 (INSET), simonekesh/Shutterstock; 15.2 (INSET), Henrik Larsson/Shutterstock; 16.2 (INSET), Jason Steel/Shutterstock; 17.2 (INSET), Odin, with his two crows, Hugin (thought) and Munin (memory) (pen & ink on paper), Icelandic School (18th century)/Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark/Bridgeman Images; 18.2 (INSET), NMPFT/Science Museum/SSPL/Getty Images; bm1.1, Heimdall Blowing His Horn Before Ragnarok, from “Melsted’s Edda” (pen & ink and w/c on paper), Icelandic School (18th century)/Arni Magnusson Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland/Bridgeman Images; bm1.2, Valhalla and the Midgard Serpent, 1680, Icelandic School (17th century)/Arni Magnusson Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland/Bridgeman Images
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948- author.
Treasury of Norse mythology : stories of intrigue, trickery, love, and revenge
/ by Donna Jo Napoli; illustrated by Christina Balit.
pages cm
Audience: Ages 8-12
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4263-2357-7
ISBN 978-1-4263-2098-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-1-4263-2099-6 (library binding : alk. paper)
1. Mythology, Norse–Juvenile literature. 2. Gods, Norse–Juvenile literature. 3. Tales–Scandinavia. I. Balit, Christina, illustrator. II. Title.
BL860.N25