The main goal is to present the mythology of Scandinavian peoples, so far almost unknown to us.
The presented collection of Scandinavian myths is the product of a wide civilization circle of the Germanic people. Some of them did, starting from antiquity, and ending with the Middle Ages, Pangermański ch Character, others were related only to the Norman environment. As with the myths themselves, it is the case with individual mythological threads, gods and mythical characters. An example would be Thor, appearing in continental myths under the name of Donar. However, it is not the author's goal to present the genesis of myths more fully, differences in their content in particular Germanic peoples, or the exact determination of the chronology of its origins, development and modification. Scandinavian mythology is the prose transmission of the texts of mythological songs, contained mainly in the poetic Edda, supplemented with some threads taken from Edda the Younger. It was compiled on the basis of Polish translations of these monuments of Old Scandinavian literature. The form of presenting the myths adopted by the author stems from the need to save interpretation and semantic difficulties, what a reader who is not introduced to the subject matter might encounter, using original Scandinavian literary forms.
It should not be forgotten, that for the Norman audience most of the themes contained in the Eddaic songs were obvious. Therefore, the author allowed himself to make slight additions to the content of a few songs, giving them, in his opinion, a more understandable structure than in the original message. Apart from his own suggestions, he also used the results of modern scientific research. This applies especially to the figures of individual deities and their spheres of activity, as well as the universality or the limited range of occurrence of some mythical threads. Based on the above-mentioned assumptions, the myths are ranked in a different way than in the standard Eddy editions, subordinating them to the general outline set by the author, based on the cause-effect relationship, chronology of mythical events from the very beginning to the day of cosmic annihilation - ragnardk.