Neither is itĭue to anything weak in the conception of the deities themselves, for although they may not rise to great spiritual heights,įoremost students of Icelandic literature agree that they stand out rude and massive as the Scandinavian mountains. Romance and race-imagination, rugged though it be, as the more graceful and idyllic mythology of the South. Of their religious beliefs is enshrined, for it may safely be asserted that the Edda is as rich in the essentials of national The long neglect of these precious records of our heathen ancestors is not the fault of the material in which all that survives The prime importance of the rude fragments of poetry preserved in early Icelandic literature will now be disputed by none,īut there has been until recent times an extraordinary indifference to the wealth of religious tradition and mythical lore
Ingeborg Watches her Lover Depart ( Knut Ekwall) 312.Frithiof Cleaves the Shield of Helgé ( Knut Ekwall) 308.Aslaug ( Gertrude Demain Hammond, R.I.) 282.Loki and Svadilfari ( Dorothy Hardy) 222.The Death of Balder ( Dorothy Hardy) 206.The Road to Valhalla ( Severin Nilsson) 182.
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