Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman Bloomsbury 2017 279 Pages The old Norse religion is now well-nigh extinct in its native Germany and Scandinavia; being displaced by Lutheran Christianity. The associated mythology lives on, though, in folktales, Wagnerian opera – and, of all things, American comics from the house of Marvel that also gave us such demi-gods as Spider-Man and Captain America. That’s how celebrated author Neil Gaiman ( American Gods , Anansi Boys ) first encountered Norse myth as a 7-year-old, in the pages of comic-book maestro Stan Lee’s The Mighty Thor . As drawn by artis...