03020cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000340012624500410016026400510020130000470025233600260029933700260032533800360035150000310038750801010041852019590051953400630247865300240254165300330256565300220259885600430262099900190266377891UtSlPG20260610134814.0mcr n260607r20261895utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d a03025307 aUtSlPG 7ade2iso639-1 4aBL1 aGolther, Wolfgang,d1863-194510aHandbuch der Germanischen Mythologie 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026 a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats atextbtxt2rdacontent acomputerbc2rdamedia aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier aRelease date is 2026-02-08 aBarbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net aHandbuch der Germanischen Mythologie by Wolfgang Golther is a scholarly handbook written in the late 19th century. It presents a comprehensive, source-driven account of Germanic myth and religion, aiming to clarify the gods, cosmology, cult practices, and the interplay between “lower” folk-belief and “higher” myth, while serving as a practical reference for consultation. The opening of the handbook begins with transcription notes, a preface setting the method and scope (prioritizing reliable sources, excluding bold conjectures, limiting the narrative largely to the first millennium), a list of linguistic abbreviations and pronunciation aids, and a detailed table of contents that maps the work from folk-belief through the pantheon, creation and world’s end, to ritual, temples, and priesthood. The introduction then surveys the history of research before Jacob Grimm, from early modern compilers and Scandinavian sources (Saxo, Snorri, the Edda editions) to Mallet’s popularization, and recounts debates over the authenticity and origins of Norse myth (Rühs’s skepticism versus defenses by P. E. Müller and Grimm). It reviews euhemeristic, symbolic, and naturalistic interpretations (Suhm, Creuzer, Mone, Finn Magnusen), acknowledging their contributions while stressing their limits, before outlining Grimm’s own seminal, linguistically anchored collecting method and its overextensions. Next it notes post-Grimm corrections (e.g., Wilhelm Müller), weighs the evidentiary value and pitfalls of using folk tale and heroic legend to reconstruct ancient belief (with references to Wolf, Simrock, Lachmann, and Müllenhoff), and introduces newer directions: folklore as “lower mythology” and anthropological comparanda (Schwartz), alongside comparative Indo-European, meteorological and solar readings (Kuhn, Max Müller), all under the banner of rigorous source-criticism. (This is an automatically generated summary.) pOriginally published:cLeipzig: Verlag von S Heirzel, 1895 aMythology, Germanic aGermanic peoples -- Religion aCulture, Germanic40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77891 c118611d118611