but who wins in a Mythology Matchup?

So there's a pretty popular kids' book series called Who Would Win? where different wild animals get pitted against each other which compares the aggressive factors and stats of each animal before delivering a conclusion. But what if a publisher then decided to use this face-off bout format with the Gods?

It seems Capstone has enlisted authors Claudia Oviedo and Lydia Lukidis to do just that, and 5 of the 8 books are Norse versus Hellenic deities, which gives us:

[Odin would mop the floor with Ares!]

[wait, not Freyja in a "Battle Of The Beauties"?]

Yet if we look temporally further back there's common Indo-European roots for these Gods before the chariots rolled northwest or south depending on their different migrations, and these Gods separated out, changed, and distilled into different figures as those people found new lands, so some of these are the later regional versions of the same God/dess, well, fighting themselves.

While I haven't read any of the ~30-page chapterbooks, I think my younger self would've devoured these, and it makes my adult self curious about how exactly they turn out. Have you read these, young/young-at-heart NorsePlayers? If so, tell us about them in the comments below!

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Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants at age seven. Since then he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the Map of Midgard project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay. If you have employment/opportunities in investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer, do contact him.