Investigations into Germanic Mythology information
Investigations into Germanic Mythology
Swedish language title Undersökningar i germanisk mythologi (1886)
Author
Viktor Rydberg
Original title
Undersökningar i germanisk mythologi
Language
Swedish
Subject
Germanic mythology
Genre
Non-fiction
Publication date
1886, 1889
Publication place
Sweden
Undersökningar i germanisk mythologi (Investigations into Germanic Mythology) is a two-volume work by Viktor Rydberg, published in 1886 and 1889.
Henrik Schück wrote at the turn of the 20th century that he considered Rydberg the "last —and poetically most gifted —of the mythological school founded by Jacob Grimm and represented by such men as Adalbert Kuhn" which is "strongly synthetic" in its understanding of myth.[1] Of this work, Jan de Vries said:
At a time, when one was firmly convinced that the Old Norse myths were a late product, Rydberg’s voice resounds. At that time, he swam against the stream, but he clearly expressed that which has become an ever stronger certainty today: a large part of the myths of the Germanic tradition —and that is to say basically the Old Norse tradition—must be set back in a time when the undivided Proto-Indo-European people themselves created the vessel of their worldview in myths.[2]
^Henrik Schück, quoted by Karl Warburg in Viktor Rydberg, En Lefnadsteckning, 1900.
^Jan De Vries, Forschungsgeschichte der Mythologie, 1961, p. 250.
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