With sources ranging from the 13th-century Poetic and Prose Eddas to the 20th-century works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Lecouteux's encyclopedia covers Norse and Germanic gods, including crowd-pleasers Odin, ...

Every keen reader has heard about it: mythology in children’s literature is cool reading stuff. A great way to enjoy these books even more is to learn about the gods from all possible cultural areas.

German mythology and the carnival in Rio - how are they supposed to fit together? One of the city’s most famous samba schools, the "Unidos da Tijuca,” has taken up a very special challenge - ...