Teutonic Mythology

by Viktor Rydberg

Other authorsRasmus B. Anderson (Translator)
Hardcover, 1887

Status

Available

Call number

398

Tags

Norse and Germanic Studies, Mythology, Scandinavian Mythology, Scandinavian Religion, Aryans

Genres

Publication

Swan Sonnenschein & Co (1887) 720 pages

Description

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 spent nearly a decade trying to reconstruct and prove this epic. The results were largely dismissed by other scholars as poetical imaginations.

Language

English

Original language

Swedish

Physical description

9.21 inches

ISBN

0526792159 / 9780526792153

Local notes

SS A tour-de-force of late 19th Century Scandinavian scholarship, awash in the old Aryan theory. Some of the recounting of elements of Scandinavian myth are quite beautiful, see for example, the section on the World-Mill. This book is stil being reprinted, as late as 2019.

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