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by (shelved 199 times as saga)
avg rating 4.16 — 356,060 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 159 times as saga)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,138,856 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 156 times as saga)
avg rating 4.49 — 115,061 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 141 times as saga)
avg rating 4.48 — 98,401 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 131 times as saga)
avg rating 4.41 — 81,699 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 129 times as saga)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,713,461 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 126 times as saga)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,380,151 ratings — published 2002

by (shelved 123 times as saga)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,032,432 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 123 times as saga)
avg rating 4.40 — 71,389 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 119 times as saga)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,096,817 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 118 times as saga)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,715,006 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 116 times as saga)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,585,041 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 113 times as saga)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,551 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 107 times as saga)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,665,863 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 106 times as saga)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,165,011 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 101 times as saga)
avg rating 4.47 — 47,395 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 90 times as saga)
avg rating 4.56 — 33,714 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 87 times as saga)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,687,524 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 87 times as saga)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,089,116 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 84 times as saga)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,958,445 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 83 times as saga)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,954,405 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 82 times as saga)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,841,859 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 78 times as saga)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,047,879 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 69 times as saga)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,625,791 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 64 times as saga)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,137,555 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 63 times as saga)
avg rating 4.45 — 38,507 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 63 times as saga)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,358,915 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 60 times as saga)
avg rating 4.35 — 814,364 ratings — published 1989

by (shelved 58 times as saga)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,232,505 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 57 times as saga)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,136,582 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 56 times as saga)
avg rating 4.64 — 3,012,212 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.49 — 915,197 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,005,072 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,241,399 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,308,238 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,072,826 ratings — published 1954

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.25 — 362,016 ratings — published 1977

by (shelved 51 times as saga)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,367,471 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 50 times as saga)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,025 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 50 times as saga)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,115,332 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 49 times as saga)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,727,332 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 48 times as saga)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,649,447 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 48 times as saga)
avg rating 4.22 — 799,231 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 48 times as saga)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,537,213 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 47 times as saga)
avg rating 3.70 — 74,732 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 47 times as saga)
avg rating 4.55 — 834,162 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 46 times as saga)
avg rating 4.34 — 592,480 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 43 times as saga)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,168,348 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 41 times as saga)
avg rating 4.13 — 997,516 ratings — published 2012

“Norse mythology hints at Odinic cults, with Odin being worshipped through a combination of ecstatic and seemingly shamanistic rituals. From the eddic poem The Sayings of the High One ( Hávamál ), he is said to have hanged himself in a sacrificial ritual on a tree. Barely surviving this ordeal, Odin gains arcane knowledge, including the use of runes, the ancient Scandinavian alphabet sometimes used for magical purposes. In the poem, Odin chants :
I know that I hung
on the wind-swept tree
all nine nights
with spear was I wounded
and given to Odin,
myself to me,
on that tree which no one knows
from which roots it grows.
Bread I was not given,
no drink from the horn,
downwards I glared;
up I pulled the runes,
screaming I took them,
from there I fell back again.
- excerpt from Jesse L. Byock's Introduction and Notes, of Sturluson's Prose Edda.”
― The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
I know that I hung
on the wind-swept tree
all nine nights
with spear was I wounded
and given to Odin,
myself to me,
on that tree which no one knows
from which roots it grows.
Bread I was not given,
no drink from the horn,
downwards I glared;
up I pulled the runes,
screaming I took them,
from there I fell back again.
- excerpt from Jesse L. Byock's Introduction and Notes, of Sturluson's Prose Edda.”
― The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology

“Yes," Divya says. "But we have each other."
Charity rests her head in the crook of Divya’s shoulder. "That we do."
Divya doesn’t know what the future holds. How their part of the world will change with the country, the world, at war. She tells Charity, "We will face whatever is to come, whatever Hitler, the war, or life will throw at us, together."
"Hear, hear," Mrs Kerridge says.
And everyone cheers.
Since Divya was chased out of her childhood village, she’s wanted to be part of a community, to belong.
Now she does.”
― New Arrivals on West India Dock Road
Charity rests her head in the crook of Divya’s shoulder. "That we do."
Divya doesn’t know what the future holds. How their part of the world will change with the country, the world, at war. She tells Charity, "We will face whatever is to come, whatever Hitler, the war, or life will throw at us, together."
"Hear, hear," Mrs Kerridge says.
And everyone cheers.
Since Divya was chased out of her childhood village, she’s wanted to be part of a community, to belong.
Now she does.”
― New Arrivals on West India Dock Road