Academic research, personal interpretation and experience combine to create this unique book. Searching out the forgotten female aspects of a tradition popularly seen as solely God-oriented, even misogynistic, Welch highlights many Norse goddesses as well as Valkyries, Norns, Giantesses, Disir and other female mythic figures. Welch makes a definitive case for a primordial triple goddess of mother, grandmother and daughter behind Norse society, myth and oral tradition.