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100	1		_aGolther, Wolfgang, _d1863-1945
245	1	0	_aHandbuch der Germanischen Mythologie
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-02-08
508			_aBarbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520			_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.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLeipzig: Verlag von S Heirzel, 1895
653			_aMythology, Germanic
653			_aGermanic peoples -- Religion
653			_aCulture, Germanic
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77891
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