Excerpt from Northern Antiquities, or a Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws of the Ancient Danes, and Other Northern Nations, Including Those of Our Own Saxon Ancestors, Vol. 2 of 2: With a Translation of the Edda, or System of Runic Mythology, and Other Pieces, From the Ancient Islandic Tongue This is, not all the advantage of this Rudy: Without it our knowledge of man kind mufi be extremely fuperficial. Who knows not the influence which Religion has On manners and laws 'intimately blended, as it were, with the original formation of different nations, it directs and governs all their thoughts and actions. In one place we fee it enforcing and fuppnrting defpo tifm; in another rcfiraining it: 'ithas con fiituted the very foul and fpirit' of more. Than one republic. Con uerors have fre quently been unable to geprefs it, even: by force; and it is generally either the foul to animate or the arm to execute the ope rations of politics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Northern Antiquities, or a Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws of the Ancient Danes, and Other Northern Nations, Vol. 2 of 2: Including Those of Our Own Saxon Ancestors, With a Translation of the Edda, or System of Runic Mythology, and Other Pieces, From the Ancient Islandic Tongue But in this multitude of Religions, all are not equally, worthy of our refearch. There are, among fome barbarous nations; Creeds without ideas, and practices without Any objeét; thefe have at hri'c been dié'rated by fear, and afterward continued by.mere mechanical habit. A hugle glance of the eye thrown upon fuch Religions as thefe, is fuflicient to {how us all their relations and dependencies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Northern Antiquities, or a Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws of the Ancient Danes, and Other Northern Nations, Vol. 1 of 2: Including Those of Our Own Saxon Ancestors, With a Translation of the Edda, or System of Runic Mythology, and Other Pieces, From the Ancient Islandic Tongue Proqfl' that the Tentamo and Ccltzc Natzom were ah origine two dfiim'? People. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.