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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.
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Singoalla (Hardcover)
Viktor Rydberg
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The Last Athenian
Viktor Rydberg
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