and place names that he was probably a really big deal at some point, maybe even the leader of the gods, but by the time things started getting written down he’d fallen out of favor. The best explanation I could find is that as the culture and circumstances of the people worshipping ...
Nor was this struggle between two rival races or powers confined to the gods in Asgard alone. Just as their ancient foes were the Giants of Frost and Snow, so between the race of men and the race of Trolls was there a perpetual feud. As the gods were men magnified and exaggerated, so...
(GKS 2365 4to)—are anonymous, alliterative poems dealing with Nordic godsand heroes. Some of these poems are quoted and in parts re-narrated in the so-calledSnorra Edda, a poetological compendium consisting of three parts, which was com-posed by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1249) in c. ...
Germanic religion and mythology, complex of stories, lore, and beliefs about the gods and the nature of the cosmos developed by the Germanic-speaking peoples before their conversion to Christianity. Germanic culture extended, at various times, from the B