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This edition features illustrations a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS I. Primitive Times. - The First Settlers on the Rhine. - Masters going to School. - Sanskrit and Breton. - An Idle God. - Microscopic Deities. - Tree Worship. - Birth-Trees and Death-Trees. II. The Druids and their Creed. - Esus. - The Holy Oak. - The Pforzheim Lime Tree. - A Rival Plant. - The Mistletoe and the Anguinufh. - The Oracle at Do-dona. - Immaculate Horses. - The Druidesses. - A late Elector. - Philanthropic Institution of Human Sacrifices. - Second Druidical. Epoch. III. A Visit to the Land of our Forefathers. - The Two Banks of the Rhine. - Druid Stones. - Weddings and Burials. - Night Service. - A Demigod Glacier. - Social Duels. - A Countrywoman of Aspasia. - Boudoir of a Celtic Lady. - The Bard's Story. - Teutons and Titans. - Earthquake. IV. The Roman Gods invade Germany. - Drusus and the Dru-idess. - Ogmius, the Hercules of Gaul. - Great Philological Discovery concerning Tentâtes. - Transformations of every kind. - Irmensul. - The Rhine deified. - The Gods cross the River. - Druids of the Third Epoch. V. The World before and since Odin. - Birth of Ymer. - The Giants of the Frost. - A Log split in Two. - The First Man and the First Woman. - The Ash Ygdrasil and its Menagerie. - Thor's Three Jewels. - Freyr's Enchanted Sword. - A Souvenir of the National Guard of Belleville. - The Story of Kvasir and the Two Dwarfs. - Honey and Blood. - Invocation. VI. Short Biographies. - A Clairvoyant among the Gods. - A Bright God. - Tyr and the Wolf Fenris. - The Hospital at the Walhalla. - Why was Odin one-eyed. - The Three Norns. - Mimer the Sage. - A Goddess the Mother of Four Oxen. - The Love Affairs of Heimdall - The God with the Golden Teeth.153 VII. Heaven and Hell. - The Valkyrias. - Amusements in Walhalla. - Pork and Wild Boar. - A Frozen Hell. - Balder's Death. - Frigg's Devotion. - The Iron Tree Forest. - The Twilight of the Gods. - Iduna's Apples.

Schlüsselwörter: Myths of the Rhine Gustave Doré, Illustrator, M. Schele de Vere, Translator, X.B. Saintine Fiction & Literature 1230000208115
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