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The Edda, Volume 2
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Title: The Edda, Vol. 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13
Author: Winifred Faraday
Release Date: July 23, 2004 [EBook #13008]
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Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13
The Edda
II
The Heroic Mythology of the North
By
Winifred Faraday, M.A.
Published by David Nutt, at the Sign of the Phoenix, Long Acre, London 1902
Author's Note
The present study forms a sequel to No. 12 (_The Edda: Divine Mythology of the North_), to which the reader is referred for introductory matter and for the general Bibliography. Additional bibliographical references are given, as the need occurs, in the notes to the present number.
Manchester, July 1902.
The Edda: II. The Heroic Mythology of the North
Sigemund the Waelsing and Fitela, Aetla, Eormanric the Goth and Gifica of Burgundy, Ongendtheow and Theodric, Heorrenda and the Heodenings, and Weland the Smith: all these heroes of Germanic legend were known to the writers of our earliest English literature. But in most cases the only evidence of this knowledge is a word, a name, here and there, with no hint of the story attached. For circumstances directed the