The Edda: The Divine & Heroic Mythology of the North

by L. Winifred Faraday, Ramon Bau (Supplement by)

The Edda: Divine & Heroic Mythology of the North" gathers in a single volume two studies authored by Winifred Faraday. These studies were originally published in two volumes as part of the Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance and Folklore series. Besides the studies on the traditional pagan aspects of "The Edda" this volume was enriched with the inclusion of "Paganism as a Weltanshauung," a classic essay by Ramon Bau, a Spanish author, intellectual and devoted Wagnerian, former president of the Circle of Indo-European Studies. Bau's essay deals mostly with modern paganism, its deviations and misinterpretations, and its validity as a worldview even today for those seeking an alternative way of life, an excellent supplement to Faraday's studies on the ancestral pagan world, as pictured in "The Edda.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1902

About the author

1872–1948

Reviews

[Alejandro Paulovitch · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would not give this anything more than a 2.8/5, principally because it lacks more information. Its a good read for those intellectuals who are more than well read on the subject. If you sadly don't know your Nordic mythology, well tough luck. Also, Bau's essay at the end gave it an anticlimactic ending to the book. Paganism as a pantheistic creed, its interesting to see his perspective but I do not fully by it, it lacks its mysticism and even Savitri Devi and the gnostics have a better interpretation of paganism. The first essay by Ramón Bau which I am quite dissapointed in to be fair, wish me luch in reading his next one "judeo-cristianismo".