{"product_id":"viktor-rydbergs-investigations-into-germanic-mythology-volume-ii-part-1-indo-european-mythology-9780595420209","title":"Viktor Rydberg's Investigations into Germanic Mythology, Volume II, Part 1: Indo-European Mythology","description":"The Nebra Disc (front cover) informs archaeologists that the Bronze Age people of Northern Europe were more sophisticated than once thought. In an area traditionally seen as primitive and barbaric, it would seem a complex religion had flourished more than 3,600 years ago. \u003cp\u003e\"We have been dramatically underestimating the prehistoric peoples,\" says Harald Meller, Head Archaeologist at the Museum of Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, where the Nebra disc was discovered.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScientists have long known that most Europeans languages stem from an older Proto-Indo-European root, perhaps originating in the Russian Steppes c. 4000-6000 BC. Many have speculated about the culture and the religion of its speakers, but few in as great detail as Viktor Rydberg. Here he illuminates Proto-Indo-European beliefs through a comparative analysis of its earliest religious texts, among them, the Rigveda, the Zend-Avesta, and the Icelandic Poetic and Prose Eddas, concluding with his own thoughts on mythological method. This, the second volume of Rydberg's two-volume \u003ci\u003eUnders kningar i Germanisk Mythologi\u003c\/i\u003e, is the sequel to his \u003ci\u003eTeutonic Mythology\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInsightful research from the dawn of comparative mythological studies, these controversial essays remain as relevant today, as they were when they were published over a century ago.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the first part of a two-part set.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William P. Reaves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595420209\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40696593973363,"sku":"9.7806E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e2e4c329-e129-470d-ae42-7abc476159aa.jpg?v=1675780501","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/viktor-rydbergs-investigations-into-germanic-mythology-volume-ii-part-1-indo-european-mythology-9780595420209","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}