Teutonic Mythology, 4 VolumeSet (Phoenix Edition)

Hardcover, 1887 pages

English language

Published June 22, 2004 by Dover Publications.

ISBN:
978-0-486-43615-9
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Teutonic mythology is a bit of a misnomer as it's really about the spread of German mythology. Grimm (yes, the same one that collected all those folk tales with his brother that we now know as "Grimm's Fairy tales") painstakingly reconstructs the spread of pre-Christian religion throughout Europe via linguistic analysis and comparative study of folklore and religious writing throughout Scandinavia, the UK, Eastern Europe, the Low countries, and Germany. He makes an effective argument that what most people think of as "Norse myths" were basically the pre-Christian religion in Germany, but that in more outlying regions of Europe that converted later the old Gods survived long enough to make it into writing. Be forewarned, this is not a quaint collection of tales of giants versus heroes and whatnot, it is the comparison of every_single_item of this religion in every language he can find it in. Vast passages are entirely …

Subjects

  • Social Science
  • Sociology
  • Folklore & Mythology
  • Social Science / Folklore & Mythology