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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.
The Nebra Disc (front cover) informs archaeologists that the Bronze
Age people of Northern Europe were more sophisticated than once
thought. In an area traditionally seen as primitive and barbaric,
it would seem a complex religion had flourished more than 3,600
years ago.
"We have been dramatically underestimating the prehistoric
peoples," says Harald Meller, Head Archaeologist at the Museum of
Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, where the Nebra disc was discovered.
Scientists have long known that most Europeans languages stem
from an older Proto-Indo-European root, perhaps originating in the
Russian Steppes c. 4000-6000 BC. Many have speculated about the
culture and the religion of its speakers, but few in as great
detail as Viktor Rydberg. Here he illuminates Proto-Indo-European
beliefs through a comparative analysis of its earliest religious
texts, among them, the Rigveda, the Zend-Avesta, and the Icelandic
Poetic and Prose Eddas, concluding with his own thoughts on
mythological method. This, the second volume of Rydberg's
two-volume "Undersokningar i Germanisk Mythologi," is the sequel to
his "Teutonic Mythology."
Insightful research from the dawn of comparative mythological
studies, these controversial essays remain as relevant today, as
they were when they were published over a century ago.
This is the first part of a two-part set.
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.
An epic introduction to Norse mythology for students of all ages.
Based on the research of the 19th century Swedish poet and
scholar, Viktor Rydberg, "Our Fathers' Godsaga" retells the
mythology of Northern Europe in chronological order from Creation
to Ragnarok.
These are tales told by Vikings, epic tales of gods and giants,
elves and dwarves, and of how their interaction and wars affect the
first generations of human beings in the North. Based on a
comprehensive examination of the source material, including the
Icelandic Eddas and Sagas, this is likely the way Germanic
mythology looked at the end of the heathen era.
Many will recognize themes found here in J.R.R. Tolkien's
"Silmarillion," particularly the tale of the elf-smith Volund and
his quest for revenge against the Aesir, first detailed by Rydberg
in his comprehensive "Investigations into Germanic Mythology,"
1886.
This is an original translation of Viktor Rydberg's "Fadernas
Gudasaga," his own retelling of the complete Norse mythic epic,
first published in 1887, and many times since. The text includes a
complete catalog of mythic names & the original artwork, from
the 1911 German translation, by renowned children's artist John
Bauer (1882-1918).
This classic Swedish text appears in English now for the first
time.
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Singoalla (Hardcover)
Viktor Rydberg
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The Last Athenian
Viktor Rydberg
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