Norwegian winner of the major Nordic Novel Writing Competition.
In The Fall of the Gods we get an insight into the difficult lives of the mythical heroes and heroines. They curse the Christianization of Scandinavia and the decline that follows from Underheimen. Odin wants to go up and out to take control of the people who drove him underground. Unfortunately it isn’t just religion that’s in the way. There’s Regin the dwarf who wants to rule in Overheimen and obliterate Åsgård with his army of bionts, the treacherous Loke and the confused giants who change faith every week. Hornbore the dwarf goes to Reykjavik to be Robbie Williams, Frøya is still horny and Thor with the hammer washes for the first time.
The Fall of the Gods is lively and critical of society, funny and raw, direct and intricate. You have rarely seen the gods as fokkin’ crazee as this.