H. A. Guerber, Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas… (1909)
“ The long neglect of these precious records of our heathen ancestors is not the fault of the material in which all that survives of their religious belifes is enshrined, for it may safely be asserted that the Edda is as rich in the essentials of national romance and race-imagination, rugged though it be, as the more graceful and idyllic mythology of the South. ”
H. A. Guerber, Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas… (1909)
“ This is the great story of the North, which should be to all our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks--to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been--a story too--then should it be to those that come after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us. ”
H. A. Guerber, Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas… (1909)
“ But he goes on to show, with equal truth, that at the soul of this crude worship of distorted nature was a spiritual force seeking expression. What we probe without reverence they viewed with awe, and not understanding it, straightway deified it, as all children have been apt to do in all stages of the world's history. ”
