The Culture of the Teutons: Volume Two

Vilhelm Grønbech was a preeminent professor of the history of religion at the University of Copenhagen in the early twentieth century. His vast breadth of knowledge of world cultures and religions had profound effect on Danish academic thought, and in The Culture of the Teutons, Grønbech turns his keen analysis toward his own culture, that of Germanic Europe.

Grønbech draws upon a rich panoply of sources in the Norse sagas, legal rulings, and historical figures both living and mythological t...