1891. One of the great Swedish romanticists, Rydberg started Teutonic Mythology as an attempt to save the Old Norse Eddaic myths from allegations of Christian and Classical influence. Soon he became absorbed by the idea that they were not only very ancient but also fragments of a vast and coherent mythical epic. To the dismay of his friends, he ...
This is a volume originally published in 1908, reproducing Icelandic documents suggesting that America had been discovered by the Norse as early as the tenth century and that Columbus was aware of those expeditions; as well as other pre-Columbian documents pertaining to America. There is an introductory text in English, and pages of reproductions ...
Already at the beginning of the Christian era the name Germans was applied by the Romans and Gauls to the many clans of people whose main habitation was the extensive territory east of the Rhine, and north of the forest-clad Hercynian Mountains. That these clans constituted one race was evident to the Romans, for they all had a striking similarity ...
Already at the beginning of the Christian era the name Germans was applied by the Romans and Gauls to the many clans of people whose main habitation was the extensive territory east of the Rhine, and north of the forest-clad Hercynian Mountains. That these clans constituted one race was evident to the Romans, for they all had a striking similarity ...
Snorre Sturleson (1178-1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was twice elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which consists of Gylfaginning (The Fooling of Gylfi), a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skldskaparml, a book of poetic language, and the ...
The first complete and systematic presentation of the Norse mythology in the English language, containing all the myths of the Eddas, systematized and interpreted with an introduction, vocabulary and index.
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NORSE MYTlWi THE HELIUM OF OUR FOREFATHERS, CONTAINING ALL THE MYTHS OF THE EDDAS, SYSTEMATIZE AND INTERPRETED. WITH AN INTRODUCTION, VOCABULARY A5TD INDEX. BY R, B. ANDERSON, A. M., f MFB H0B OF THE MUXIHNAVUN LANGUAGES 1ST THE UNITBRSITY OP WWCONHiN, AITHOK W AMBIMCA NOT DIWOVHKKD BY COMIMBUi, U 08N NOBHK35 MAALHAO, 1 BTC, THIBJ BD1TION. CHICAGO ...
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The Legend of Fridthjof the Valiant is the noblest poetic contribution which Sweden has yet made in the literary history of the world. - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNo poetical work of modern times stands forth as prominently and peculiarly a representative of the literature of a race and language as the Fridthjof's Saga of Esaias Tegnir. - Bayard ...
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