By Benjamin Morin — Ever since I played the latest God of War game I have been obsessed with Norse mythology. For the unfamiliar, the game follows the titular God of War, Kratos, as he battles the pantheon of Norse gods. In between fighting monsters or other gods, there are slow moments where your guide — the decapitated Mimir — tells you the epic stories of the Nordic myths. It is in these quiet moments that Mimir’s tales grasped my imagination with stories I had never heard of before, such as Odin being the lord of the hanged and the blessing of the mead of poets. My exposure to these stories led me to search out a collection of these myths which inevitably brought me to Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology.