severely his hazardous etymologies, his identification of different mythical figures without sufficient grounds, his mixing up of heroic saga and myth, and, above all, his bent for remodeling myths in order to make them fit into a system which (they say) never existed." "Rydberg's work was, then, stamped as a failure, and this verdict from certain points of view cannot be considered unjust, seems to have caused the book to fall into oblivion, a fate which surely it has not deserved." Among contemporary Swedish reviewers, Hildebrand and Bååth were appreciative, the latter unreservedly praising the work. In 1892, Irish scholar Stopford A. Brooke remarked: "When we have made every allowance for a certain fancifulness, and for the bias which a well-loved theory creates, this book is a real contribution to Northern mythology." While, in 1942, Fredrik Gadde concluded: "Even though the views set forth by Rydberg never stood a chance of being accepted, there are points in his exposition that deserve being once more brought to light." Since their publication, some of Rydberg's mythological theories have been cited in a number of other scholarly works including his theory regarding a World Mill, the dead, and his identification of Harbard with Loki in the Poetic Edda poem Hárbarðsljóð. He has been mentioned as one of several writers who proposed analogs of Ask and Embla in comparative mythology, and who sought Indo-Iranian analogs for the Poetic Edda poem, Völuspá. Marvin Taylor cites Rydberg's definition of the phrase, "dómr um dauðan hvern," as predating that of a more contemporary writer cited by the author in his review of Julia Zernack's Geschichten aus Thule, 1994, published in the Saga-Book of the Viking Society. Bibliography Many of Rydberg's works can be found catalogued on the Project Runeberg website listed below. 1857, Fribytaren på Östersjön The Freebooter of the Baltic, translated by Caroline L. Broomall, 1891. 1858, Singoalla Singoalla, A Legend-Story, translated by Josef Fredbärj, 1904. 1859, Den siste Atenaren The Last Athenian, translated by William W. Thomas Jr. 1862, Bibelns lära om Kristus (‘Christ According to the Bible''') 1865, Medeltidens Magi"The Magic of the Middle Ages" translated by August Hjalmar Edgren. 1871, Lille Viggs äventyr på julafton (Little Vigg's Adventures on Christmas Eve)Little Vigg's Christmas Eve, in the anthology, Australia Once a Month, translated by D. Conolly, 1885. 1874, Romerska sägner om apostlarna Petrus och PaulusRoman Legends about the Apostles Paul and Peter, translated by