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A Manual of Scandinavian Mythology
by Grenville Pigott
Binding: Paperback, 420 pages
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Weight: 1.09 pound
Dimension: H: 1 x L: 7.94 x W: 5.02 inches
ISBN 10: 0898755395
ISBN 13: 9780898755398
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Originally published in 1839, this was the first good summary in English of the characters and themes of the Nordic myths, with a popular account of the two Eddas and of the religion of Odin.
The author shows that the subject of Scandinavian mythology, then little studied, was the source of most of our popular superstitions, from whence the favorite authors of our early childhood have drawn their witches, fairies, dwarfs, and ghosts.
But from a historical point of view also, the religion of Odin must have exercised a great and lasting influence on the character and institutions of the inhabitants of Great Britain. The Jutes, Anglians and Saxons, who, in the course of the fifth and sixth centuries effected the conquest of the greatest part of the island, were worshipers, and their principal leaders reputed descendants of Odin.

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