Table of Contents

Introduction I Mistress of the Animals II Mistress of the Grainb III Mistress of Distaff and Loom IV Mistress of the Household V Mistress of Life and Death

About the Author

Hilda Ellis Davidson has been a lecturer at Royal Holloway College and Birkbeck College, London, Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and President of the London Folklore Society. Her many publications include The Anglo-Saxon Sword (1962), Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (1964) and The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe (1991).

Reviews

'Highly recommended [it] illuminate[s] a profound understanding of the goddess, heretofore largely neglected by scholars or else romanticized by popular books.' - Annabel Lee, Runa