Islands of the Blessed

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(Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth lands where the souls of heroes and good men were taken after death. Also called: Hesperides

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And they live untouched by sorrow in the islands of the blessed along the shore of deep swirling Ocean, happy heroes for whom the grain-giving earth bears honey-sweet fruit flourishing thrice a year, far from the deathless gods, and Cronos rules over them (5); for the father of men and gods released him from his bonds.

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Chapter 2, 'The Classical Mediterranean: Rome, Greece and the Islands of the Blessed', is probably the least convincing of the chapters.

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In the third novel in the series, The Islands of the Blessed, Jack's village is ravaged by Odin's Wild Hunt and then haunted by a demon called a draugr.

Christian, Norse and Celtic: metaphysical belief structures in Nancy Farmer's The Saxon Saga

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