title: Viktor Rydberg's Investigations into Germanic Mythology Volume II: Part 2: Germanic Mythology
author:  William Reaves 
description: Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895). Universally recognized as Sweden's greatest Romantic poet, Rydberg was a journalist, novelist, and distinguished scholar who remained a significant influence on Swedish cultural life for many years.William P. Reaves is the translator of Viktor Rydberg's Our Fathers' Godsaga (2003).
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  Clashing Myths in German Literature
  
  Clashing Myths in German Literature
  FROM HEINE TO RILKE
  by Henry Hatfield
  HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, 1974
  
  © Copyright 1974 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
  All rights reserved
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-83964
  SBN 674-13375-7
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  For Stachu and Dorrit
  
  Acknowledgments
  For help and encouragement of various kinds I am indebted to
  W. M. Frohock, Walter Grossmann, Barbara
  Hatfield, Joan
  King, Harry Levin, Gisela Lincoln, Ruth Oppenheim, Christa
  Saas, the
  late Ernest
  J. Simmons, and Eugene Weber.
  Jack
  Stein gallantly aided me in my work on Wagner, although he
  was well aware that my view of that figure was and
  is radi-
  cally different from his own.
  I must thank too the staffs of the
  libraries
  at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, and the
  Free
  University
  of
  Berlin;
  and
  also
  the
  editor
  of Mosaic
  (Winnipeg) for permission to use, in expanded form, my 