Re: [tied] What is the Rydberg Edda? (correcting the previous one)

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 4044
Date: 2000-09-26

It's what I wanted to know. I visited some of these sites and there were many interesting new points of view. I was a bit distrustful because the sites seems to be some kind of "Modern Odinnic Religion", with a miscelanea of esoterical subjects.
The sites was signed by William P. Reaves , with a plenty of new directions to research.
He stated that Mundilfari, the Giant who was father of Sun and Moon, were the same persons as Lodurr, Odinn's brother.
He stated the Ivaldi = Oevaldi = Vidfinn. He had three sons, the smith elves, and three daughters, the Swan-Maidens. One of the maidens was Idunn, who is the same as Bil, one of the followers of the Moon.
The father of Ull (and former husband of Sif) would be Egill, one of the Ivaldi's sons. (The sons I've known was Alfr, Berglingr and Grérr, but Reavea equated them to Egill (=Gangr, Aurvandill and Solbjartr), Völundr (=Thjazi and Onnund) and Slagfinn).
 
 
Joao SL
Rio
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] What is the Rydberg Edda? (correcting the previous one)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 3:23 PM
Subject: [tied] What is the Rydberg Edda? (correcting the previous one)

Abraham Victor Rydberg (1828-95) was a Swedish scholar, writer (with Romantic inclinations) and influential philosopher. He wrote very interestingly about Germanic mythology:
 
http://www.boudicca.de/teut.htm
 
His classic commentaries on the Edda are still quoted in the literature. Rydberg was a fine philologist and his interpretations must be taken seriously, as long as you're aware of more recent scholarship in that area. The "Rydberg Edda" is simply the Edda as annotated by Rydberg.
 
Piotr

 
 
The previous e-mail was wrong. This is the correct one:
What is the Rydberg Edda? It's valid as a reference? I found many sites with references to it, with different interpretations of norse Gods, for example, equating Mundifari and Lodurr; or Mimir and Surtr.
 
Joao SL
Rio