The Content Reader

Three nonfiction books that I have read lately, all of them outside Nonfiction November.   Tree of Salvation, Yggdrasil and the Cross inte the North by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., The Edge of the World, How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are by Michael Pye, and Evolutionen och jag (Evolution and I) by Johan Frostegård. Two of them are histories of Northern Europe and one is a history of the world, showing the evolution of man and the various theories attached to it.  Tree of Salvation, Yggdrasil and the Cross inte the North by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J. "At the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Yggdrasil, the tree of life that holds up the skies and unites and separates three worlds: Asgard, high in the tree, where the gods dwell in their great halls; Middlegard, where human beings live; and the dark underground world of Hel, home to the monstrous goddess of death. With the advent of Christianity in the North in the early Middle Ages,...