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Excerpt from The Religion of the Northmen
The Introductory Chapters grew up of necessity. The subject before us and the constant reference to the Eddas and Sagas - the sources of Scandinavian Mvthology and History - make it desirable, and even necessary, to have some knowledge of their character and their history. Unfortunately there is not yet, in the English language, any history of the old-icelandic literature and its Restoration, to which reference can be made. An Abstract has, therefore, been here compressed within the limits of an Introduction, where it must, of necessity, be brief. In preparing it, the writer has availed him self of N yerup's Survey of the History of Studies in Scandinavian Mythology,96 Koeppen's Literary Introduction to Northern the publica tions of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, and the works referred to, gen erally.
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