In 2019, when we received the manuscript for the first Volume in the Óðinn Trilogy, The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir, it wasn't initially made clear to us whether the book was intended to be part of a series of books, or of a specific trilogy.

The project also came as somewhat of a last-minute surprise; as such it wasn't initially scheduled for publication that year. However, the cancellation of another project created a vacuum, of sorts, in our schedule.

Naturally, it made sense that we try to publish The Hanged God as soon as we could. At the time, our budget was quite meager (which wasn't at all ideal), and due to the more academic (and less praxical) approach of this particular work (compared to some of Shani's previous titles), we did not know what the reaction of the readership would be.

All of these factors led to the decision to go for a refined (slightly elevated) Paperback edition, rather than our usual three distinct Hardcover edition treatments, upon release... Which, in retrospect, wasn't the best of ideas. That much we will admit.

Because The Hanged God ended up being one of our bestselling titles, this created a desire from our readers to eventually publish a Hardcover version. However, circling back to this project took a few years. In the meantime, Volume 2 of the trilogy, Wolfs-Head, was published (which did get the Hardcover treatment in 2020).

2020

Volume 2: Wolfs-Head: Óðinn, the Ecstatic God of Tethers & Skin-Turning

In 2020, with the interest generated by The Hanged God (and Shani's having properly established that this would indeed be a whole trilogy), the second Volume for the trilogy, Wolfs-Head: Óðinn, the Ecstatic God of Tethers & Skin-Turning, was published in 2020, in three Hardcover editions format (Standard, Collector's, and Artisanal). These sold out quickly, before we had the chance to circle back to the first Volume in the trilogy.

The following absence of proper citation errors was found on p.313 and p.315 of The Search for Óðinn: From Pontic Steppe to Sutton Hoo, wherein it appears that a due reference was lost in the author’s editing of her research notes, resulting in one partial sentence and one full sentence inserted in the text almost verbatim from source material. An oversight our editing team failed to pick up during the layout stage of pre-production which unfortunately made it to print as such.

Both of these excerpts appear on the Wikipedia page for the Eggja rune stone under the heading ‘Meter’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggja_stone

From p.313 (half a sentence):
Wiki: “The inscription loosely follows the pattern of the Merseburg Incantations, (...)”

The Search for Óðinn: “Loosely following the pattern of the Merseburg Incantation, (...)”

From p.315 (full sentence):
Wiki: “Both inscriptions may represent some of the few remaining examples of pre-Christian ljoð or galdr, ritual verse chanted by the cult leaders, shamans or oracles of Norse Scandinavia.”

The Search for Óðinn: “The Eggja malrunar may represent some of the few remaining examples of pre-Christian ljoð or galdr, ritual verse chanted by the cult leaders, shamans or oracles of Norse Scandinavia.”

Download the PDF file for the ERRATA sheet to print and include in your copy of The Search for Óðinn.