Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer hits shelves in less than a month, and now we have a beautiful book trailer for the novel.
Debuting on Entertainment Weekly, we get a colorful book trailer for the first in a series about Norse mythology. And taking a leaf out of the book itself, which is set in the city, we hear a narrator with a thick Boston accent giving us a history lesson on the Norse people and their deities.
In case you missed it, the narrator says, “A thousand years ago, the world was small. But bold men journeyed far in the name of their gods to make it big. They came from the northern lands to put down roots. Roots were there for the legion, along with dwarves, fire giants, and wolves. They abandoned the land, but the roots grew to this here cradle of liberty. By the time he came around, the one they call Magnus, it resembled the modern world. Except, beneath it all, in every which way, it wasn’t that modern. And it wasn’t a ‘world,’ singular. There were actually nine of them. And let’s just say that these worlds, they didn’t get along too well.”
Playing with the bright and bold colors we saw on the cover, we see oceans, battleships, monsters, and Yggdrasil itself.
Sword of Summer will introduce us to Magnus Chase, a homeless teen in the city of Boston who soon discovers he’s the son of a Norse god. If that’s not crazy enough, he’ll be thrown into the middle of a war, complete with dwarves, trolls, giants, and all sorts of mythological monsters. It’s up to Magnus to prevent Ragnarok, but in doing so, he’ll have to face the fate of the world, as well as his own.