# Norse Mythology According to Uncle Einar **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2013, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782 "2013-08-21T07:37:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/1 "2013-08-21T07:37:36Z")
Someone on this board, and I forgot who, recommended this [book](http://www.amazon.com/Norse-Mythology-According-Uncle-Einar-Sibley/dp/0738844187/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377070015&sr=8-1&keywords=norse+mythology+according+to+uncle+einar). So I got it. And I read it. And it was, indeed, worth the money. Thank you, whoever you are. It was hilarious. The stories were completely self consistent and logical. Of COURSE Thor rides a motorcycle these days, and will use a laser gun if he can. The drawings were perfect, too. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/2 "2013-08-21T15:02:57Z")
That looks hilarious. I need something light after this Collection of Richard Matherson stories I’m reading. Amazon thanks you. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/3 "2013-08-21T15:12:22Z")
I love this book, and have recommended it on this Board before. I see the author, Jane Sibley, at ARISIA in Boston every year, where she sells copies of her books (and puts a couple of copies of mine out), along with sea salt and spices. She hosts a mythology convention every year that I haven’t been able to get away for yet. \*Her other books are _serious_ books on mythology. She really should write another funny one. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/4 "2013-08-21T19:48:33Z")
Love the book, know the author [we have been in the SCA for decades - both in Connecticut though different baronies] Auntie Arwen is a hoot in person. FOr a few years I was handing out autographed copies to everybody I knew for Christmas:p ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/5 "2013-08-22T08:46:22Z")
Y’all need to tell her to write more humorous books. What cracked me up was that the book’s setting was exactly how the tales got passed on traditionally…a friend or relative would tell stories to the kids, as a means of entertaining the kids, and of course the stories changed over time. So naturally Uncle Einar was going to put the old gods in a modern setting, so that the kids would be able to relate to the stories better. Folk tales/fairy tales/myths change. I love to read retold fairy stories. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/6 "2013-08-22T09:09:02Z")
Promise, next time I run into Auntie Arwen I’ll tell her. I agree, the stories are great! To be honest, it was like they were all people from the SCA I already knew … ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/7 "2013-08-22T09:38:48Z")
So was Thor given anger management training, Loki sent to reform school, and Odin given therapy for his tendency to pull out his eyeballs? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/8 "2013-08-22T15:53:13Z")
There’s a Kindle edition available for under $10. w00t! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/9 "2013-08-22T18:50:21Z")
Would the Kindle edition have the illustrations? StG ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/10 "2013-08-22T19:00:03Z")
It should; Kindles are a glorified PDF. Other Kindles I have come with illustrations. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/11 "2013-08-22T21:58:36Z")
Confirmed: the illustrations are included in the Kindle edition. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/12 "2013-08-22T22:06:17Z")
Which is good, because I just ordered it for mine. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/13 "2013-09-04T05:55:52Z")
Jut popping in to say that I ordered the book and it arrived today. I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet but I had friends over for dinner and the one was so intrigued he bought the kindle edition on his phone and the other refused to play cards after dinner until she’d finished the story she was reading. I’m gonna guess it’s worth the money, then. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norse-mythology-according-to-uncle-einar/666782/14 "2013-09-04T11:01:01Z")
I’m about 2/3rds of the way through. 'Tis a hoot…