Its time to talk about cosmology, the fabric of the universe stacked on top of each other, and what it means to hold space for multiple religious views in a fantasy world! Join Ava, Brayden, and Niamh as they tackle Chapters 31 - 3 6 of Magnus Chase and The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan, analyzing the themes like a socratic seminar!
The Sword of Summer is a young-adult fantasy novel based on Norse mythology written by American author Rick Riordan. It was published on October 6, 2015, by Disney Hyperion, and is the first novel in the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series.
The novel is narrated in the first-person view by Magnus Chase, 16-year-old demigod and homeless orphan and after his death he arrives in a Norse afterlife as an Einherji, Magnus discovers that he is the son of the Norse deity, Frey, and must stop Fenris Wolf from leaving his prison and ending the world.