A thorough reference to the many deities magical beings mythical places and ancient customs of the Norse and Germanic regions of Europe Explores the legends and origins of well-known gods and figures such as Odin Thor Krampus and the Valkyries as well as a broa... Lees meer.

Mariana Scott poet and translator of Hofmannsthal Meyrink Celan and others translates the eighth-century Old Saxon Heliand into its original meter in this work originally published in 1966. This anonymous masterpiece presents the life of Christ and affords an excel... Lees meer.

This book considers evidence for Germanic goddesses in England and on the Continent and argues on the basis of linguistic and onomastic evidence that modern scholarship has tended to focus too heavily on the notion of divine functions or spheres of activity rather tha... Lees meer.

While many people are familiar with the Vandals sack of Rome the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire s attempt to reunify the entire Roman Empire the history of Italy in the wake of Rome s fall is often overlooked. The late 5th century s p... Lees meer.

Fully illustrated with over fifty photographs this book describes the ancient fighting styles and mythical self-images of Germanic warriors from 200 BC - AD 1000 and presents vivid and fascinating survey that adds a colourful new dimension to our understanding of the h... Lees meer.

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Magic of the Germanic Tribes - The hidden powers of the ancient world. A journey through Mythology sorcery and Norse Magic of Seers Wizards and Ancient Rites Experience the mysterious magic of the Germanic peoples in all its facets. This book reveals the hidden powe... Lees meer.

The 3rd to the 6th centuries saw the collapse of the classical Mediterranean civilization and the emergence of new states in western Europe based on the Germanic warrior society. This book focuses particularly on the men who made up the retinues of the Germanic warlords... Lees meer.

Despite all the accomplishments and widespread victories and conquests that the ancient Romans accrued over the centuries one of their most critical failures was the inability to subjugate Germany. Indeed historians have singled out this one failure as central to the... Lees meer.

Despite all the accomplishments and widespread victories and conquests throughout the long history of Republican and Imperial Rome general perception still deems the Romans to have failed in one crucial conquest. the subjugation of Germany. Indeed historians have sin... Lees meer.

This study focuses on the diversity with which early medieval society formed not only among macro European zones but also within individual areas and thus on the need to look beyond the models elaborated during a phase in which archaeological sources were still fragmen... Lees meer.

Casts new light on Hausen s lyrics by often favouring the manuscript readings. In the readings irony emerges as a leading poetic device as does the element of Spiel. Questions arise regarding such concepts as Gottesdienst Frauendienst and hohe Minne. The author c... Lees meer.

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 ag... Lees meer.

Study of the origins of Freemasonic lore in ancient Norse sources.... Lees meer.

A Saxon of St. Boniface s acquaintance in England observed that the two peoples the English and Saxons were of the same bone and blood. Certainly Boniface himself noted the similarities in language and story between the two peoples. In modern scholarship however ra... Lees meer.