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The Tomten (Paperback)
Astrid Lindgren, Viktor Rydberg; Illustrated by Harald Wiberg
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No one knows when he came to the farm, no one has ever seen him,
but everyone knows it is the troll Tomten who walks about the
lonely old farmhouse on a winter's night, talking to all the
animals and reminding them of the promise of Spring.
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.
"There is no doubt that the book is one of the most original and
valuable contributions to the study of Teutonic Mythology that have
appeared since the great work of Grimm."- Atheneum Viktor Rydberg
(1828-1895) was an author, journalist, distinguished scholar and
controversial religious dissenter. A most important Swedish writer
who for many years was a significant influence on Swedish national
culture, he was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1877. From 1884 -
1895 he was professor of cultural history at Stockholms Hoegskola.
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Singoalla (Hardcover)
Viktor Rydberg
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The Last Athenian
Viktor Rydberg
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