Teutonic Mythology: The Gods and Goddesses of the Northland (Vol. 1-3). Viktor Rydberg

      Volume 1

       Table of Contents

Table of Contents

       I. INTRODUCTION. A. THE ANCIENT ARYANS.

       1. THE WORDS GERMAN AND GERMANIC.

       2. THE ARYAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGES.

       3. THE HYPOTHESIS CONCERNING THE ASIATIC ORIGIN OF THE ARYANS.

       4. THE HYPOTHESIS CONCERNING THE EUROPEAN ORIGIN OF THE ARYANS.

       5. THE ARYAN LAND OF EUROPE.

       B. ANCIENT TEUTONDOM (GERMANIEN).

       6. THE GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION OF ANCIENT TEUTONDOM.

       II. A. MEDIÆVAL MIGRATION SAGAS.

       7. THE SAGA IN HEIMSKRINGLA AND THE PROSE EDDA.

       8. THE TROY SAGA IN HEIMSKRINGLA AND THE PROSE EDDA

       9. SAXO'S RELATION OF THE STORY OF TROY.

       10. THE OLDER PERIODS OF THE TROY SAGA.

       11. THE ORIGIN OF THE STORY IN REGARD TO THE TROJAN DESCENT OF THE FRANKS.

       12. WHY ODIN WAS GIVEN ANTENOR'S PLACE AS LEADER OF THE TROJAN EMIGRATION.

       13. THE MATERIALS OF THE ICELANDIC TROY SAGA.

       14. THE RESULT OF THE FOREGOING INVESTIGATIONS.

       B. REMINISCENCES IN THE POPULAR TRADITIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES OF THE HEATHEN MIGRATION SAGA.

       15. THE LONGOBARDIAN MIGRATION SAGA.

       16. THE SAXON AND SWABIAN MIGRATION SAGA.

       17. THE FRANKISH MIGRATION SAGA.

       18. JORDANES ON THE EMIGRATION OF THE GOTHS, GEPIDÆ, AND HERULIANS. THE MIGRATION SAGA OF THE BURGUNDIANS. TRACES OF AN ALAMANNIC MIGRATION SAGA.

       19. THE TEUTONIC EMIGRATION SAGA FOUND IN TACITUS.

       III. THE MYTH CONCERNING THE EARLIEST PERIOD AND THE EMIGRATIONS FROM THE NORTH.

       20. THE CREATION OF MAN. THE PRIMEVAL COUNTRY. SCEF THE BRINGER OF CULTURE.

       21. SCEF THE AUTHOR OF CULTURE IDENTICAL WITH HEIMDAL-RIG, THE ORIGINAL PATRIARCH.

       22. HEIMDAL'S SON BORGAR-SKJOLD, THE SECOND PATRIARCH.

       23. BORGAR-SKJOLD'S SON HALFDAN, THE THIRD PATRIARCH.

       24. HALFDAN'S ENMITY WITH ORVANDEL AND SVIPDAG (cp. No. 33).

       25. HALFDAN'S IDENTITY WITH MANNUS IN "GERMANIA."

       26. THE SACRED RUNES LEARNED FROM HEIMDAL.

       27. SORCERY THE REVERSE OF THE SACRED RUNES. GULLVEIG-HEIDR, THE SOURCE OF SORCERY. THE MORAL DETERIORATION OF THE ORIGINAL MAN.

       28A. HEIMDAL AND THE SUN-DIS (Dis-goddess).

       28B. LOKE CAUSES ENMITY BETWEEN THE GODS AND THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS (THE CREATORS OF ALL THINGS GROWING). THE CONSEQUENCE IS THE FIMBUL-WINTER AND EMIGRATIONS.

       29. EVIDENCE THAT HALFDAN IS IDENTICAL WITH HELGE HUNDINGSBANE.

       30. HALFDAN'S BIRTH AND THE END OF THE AGE OF PEACE. THE FAMILY NAMES YLFING, HILDING, BUDLUNG.

       31. HALFDAN'S CHARACTER. THE WEAPON-MYTH.

       32. HALFDAN'S CONFLICTS INTERPRETED AS MYTHS OF NATURE. THE WAR WITH THE HEROES FROM SVARIN'S MOUND. HALFDAN'S MARRIAGE WITH DISES OF VEGETATION.

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