creation of the world

Tolkien’s Song of the Ainur

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“Inspired by old legends of northern Europe, Celtic mythology, ancient Nordic sagas, stories of Viking voyages, as well as ancient languages, writing, and symbols of the northern peoples, J.R.R. Tolkien began outlining a great prose epic in his youth, which would much later be named The Silmarillion. He worked on refining the initial versions of … Read more

Edda – the world of Norse sagas

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Germans are one of the Indo-European peoples who, according to some historians, inhabited Scandinavia around the 1st century BC and from there expanded westward and southeastward Europe. It is a collection of numerous tribes without a unified state, but with a common language, cultural connections, and religious symbolism. Data on the religion and mythology of … Read more