Archive for January 2009

Kultische Geheimbünde Der Germanen * Otto Höffler (1934)

Since this is not really a book review, I have put this in the “blog” section.
I had wanted to read this work for a long time. It is a standard work on the subject of Germanic secret men societies and heavily used by later writers. It is not impossible to get, but very expensive (even the 1993 reprint that I just found out that exists), so I eventually had… Continue reading Kultische Geheimbünde Der Germanen * Otto Höffler (1934)

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Eddukvædi

For quite some time I had wanted to get an Edda in the original language, but I never managed to find one. I did not really know what to look for. When I was rereading Gods Of The Ancient Northmen by Georges Dumézil who quotes a lot in Icelandic, I decided to see if I could find the version that he used. I do not know by heart which writer… Continue reading Eddukvædi

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