Donald A. Mackenzie > Quotes

“Skirner had no fear. “Our fates,” he said, “are spun when we are born. Our doom we can never escape.”
― Donald A. Mackenzie, Teutonic Myth and Legend

“Our principal sources of knowledge of this great Pagan religious system are the two Eddas of Iceland. These Eddas are collections of mythical and heroic poems and stories. One is called the Elder or Poetic Edda; the other, Snorri’s or the Prose Edda. The latter was discovered first; it came into the possession of appreciative scholars in the seventeenth century, by whom it was studied and carefully preserved. The”
― Donald a MacKenzie, Teutonic Myth and Legend

“Certain beliefs, and the myths which were based upon them, are older than even the civilization of the Tigro-Euphrates valley. They belong, it would appear, to a stock of common inheritance from an uncertain cultural centre of immense antiquity.”
― Donald A. Mackenzie, Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

“The World’s New Age hath dawned. The sun is bright in heaven, for Balder hath returned. Earth rises a second time, from the deep sea; it rises clad with green verdure. The sound of falling waters fills the morning air. High soars the eagle; from the mountain ridge he espies the fish. . . .”
― Donald A. Mackenzie, Teutonic Myth and Legend

“Iceland was peopled not only from Norway, but also from the Hebrides, where the Vikings mingled with the people and married the island maidens.”
― Donald a MacKenzie, Teutonic Myth and Legend