The Nine Worlds: Stories From Norse Mythology (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Wonderful Stories of Northern Lands by Julia Goddard. The excuse for this book is, that, in many respects, it is unlike any that have been written on the same subject. And this is partly owing to the fact that Rydberg's researches have made it possible, for the first time, for one to form a definite concep tion of the cosmography of the mythology, and also because he clears away many inconsistencies that have long clung to it.

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Excerpt from The Nine Worlds: Stories From Norse Mythology

"I think Scandinavian paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest. It continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century: eight hundred years ago the Norwegians were still worshippers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers, the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways...

"Neither is there no use in knowing something about this old paganism of our fathers. Unconsciously, and combined with higher things, it is in us yet, that old ith withal. To know it consciously brings us into closer and clearer relations with the past, - with out own possessions in the past..."

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.