Norse Mythology Legends of Gods and Heroes by Peter Andreas Munch. PDF EN

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..."INTRODUCTION
The mythology of our forefathers, as we know it from Norse mythical
poems and from the records of ancient writers, has not come down to us in
its genuine pagan form. It is extant only in a later form, dating from a period
when its devotees had begun to lose their absolute faith in the older
divinities, had begun to harbor doubts and to catch intimations of a
consolation nobler and better than that which the ancient divinities had
been able to give them. We learn to know it, furthermore, in the sources
designated, as it manifested itself in Norway during the centuries just
preceding the introduction of Christianity and as it appeared, something
more than a hundred years earlier, upon its transference into Iceland by the
Norwegian emigrants. In its main outlines it was at that time common to all
the so-called Germanic tribes: on the one hand, to Norwegians, Swedes,
and Danes; and on the other hand, to Goths, Franks, Saxons, Swabians,
Frisians, Anglo-Saxons, and other peoples."...




By Peter Andreas Munch
Pages 399
Format PDF
Language English

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Well written,Very clear and easy to understand. Thanks
An absolute gem of a book, Thank you