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Norse Mythology. The Religion of our forefathers by R. B. Anderson. Mythology is a system of myths, a collection of popular legends, fables,

tales or stories relating to the gods, heroes, demons, or other beings whose names have been preserved

in popular belief. Such tales are not found in the traditions of the ancient Greeks, Hindus,

and Egyptians only, but every nation has had its system of mythology, and that of the ancient

Norseman is more simple, earnest, miraculous, stupendous and divine

than any other mythological system of which we have record.

The myth is the oldest form of truth.

Myth is the knowledge which the ancients had of the divine.

The object of mythology is to find God and come to him.

Without a written revelation, this may be done in two ways.

By studying the intellectual, moral, and physical nature of man,

for evidence of the existence of God may be found in the proper study of man,

or by studying nature in the outward world in its general structure,

adaptations, and dependencies.

Truthfully, it may be said that God manifests himself in nature.

Our Norse forefathers, for it is their religion that we are to present in this volume,

had no clearly defined knowledge

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