Books Quote by Rick Riordan

I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

— Rick Riordan

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these…

— Karl Urban

Norse mythology is mystifying and fantastic and totally confusing, but you can draw a lot of inspiration from it.

— Tessa Thompson

We had a comic book in Denmark called 'Valhalla,' and I read it every time I had the chance. So I remembered the authentic…

— Alex Hogh Andersen

I read a lot of Icelandic sagas when I was young. I've always been interested in the Viking culture.

— Kristofer Hivju

My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology.…

— Rick Riordan

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular…

— Michael Boatman

“I borrowed a copy of Myths of the Norsemen by Roger Lancelyn Green and read and reread it with delight and puzzlement: Asgard, in…

— Neil Gaiman

I used to like Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology. All mythology!

— Kendrick Sampson

I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any trilogy I…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become... breaking their…

— Tracy Hickman

So much Western storytelling comes from Scandinavia. I've read that in the past, storytellers would travel to Iceland and exchange stories. It's kind of…

— Richard Dormer