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By VIKTOR RYDBERG.

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This work, now offered to the English and American public, contains the results of extensive and painstaking research carried on for many years by the distinguished scholar Viktor Rydberg. In this last work from his pen he has restored Teutonic mythology to the form in which it existed among our ancestors during the centuries immediately preceding the introduction of Christianity, that is, to the form which it had before conflict with Christianity caused the Odinic religion to decay.

The author draws a sharp line of distinction between mythogony and mythology in the more limited sense of these words. He does not occupy himself directly with the question of the origin of myths (which properly belongs to ethnic psychology), and so does not make any special attempt to define the limits drawn by folk-lorists under the distinguished leadership of Mr. Andrew Lang in regard to the correctness of the mythogonic hypothesis presented by Professor Max Müller and other philologists. In this volume Mr. Rydberg confines himself to a presentation of the fully-developed Teutonic polytheism, with its personified gods, its established religion and code of morals, and to showing how the sagas concerning ancient heroes and race-patriarchs, to which the cult of the dead gave rise, became blended with the myths of the gods, and, thus united, formed a grand Teutonic epic.

These questions have not heretofore been thoroughly and systematically examined. Mr. Rydberg, having for the first time gathered and compared all the materials, has carefully separated that which dates from a heathen age from that which comes to us through Christian hands. The latter kind of materials cannot be used in the reconstruction of the heathen mythology before the Christian perversions and additions have been eliminated by a thorough and critical sifting. How necessary such a sifting is the author fully demonstrates in the case of the Younger Edda, which hitherto has been looked upon as the principal source and interpreter of Teutonic heathendom. While scholars have been accustomed to look upon the Younger Edda as a key to the dark enigmas of the Elder Edda, Viktor Rydberg shows conclusively that it is a most unreliable record of the Odinic religion, and that its chief service to mythological science consists in its having rescued from oblivion a number of poetic fragments not found elsewhere. He also analyzes for the first time the precious mythic fragments to be found in the Old Norse poetic literature outside of the Elder Edda.

The Mythological materials extant in a more or less changed form have been largely augmented by Mr. Rydberg, particularly by his subjecting the mythic portions of the 'Historia Danica' of Saxo Grammaticus to a most painstaking and scholarly analysis. He has, in fact, found the key to Saxo's method of turning myths and traditions into history, and by this discovery-for it is nothing less-he has secured many new and important contributions to the religion of our heathen ancestors; but in every case the author subjects the original myth thus restored to a most rigid scrutiny in the light of purely heathen records,

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(2) The myths concerning the earliest period and the emigrations from the north.
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(4) The myths of the lower world.

(5) The Ivalde race.

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