THE publication of this important monograph on the Elder Edda furnishes a scientific basis for the interpretation of this collection of primitive Icelandic poetry. Up to the present the attempt to ...
A goat that serves fallen Viking warriors in the afterlife features in Norse mythology. However, multiple translations state the animal limitlessly produces mead, rather than beer. A rumor has spread ...
WHEN Mr. Longfellow declared that the Manobozho legends of the Chippeways formed an Indian Edda, he spoke as a poet, not as an ethnologist. In the same spirit they might with as much justice have been ...