The Younger Edda

The mythologies of other nations every student manifests an interest for. He reads with the greatest of zeal all the legends of Rom and Greece, of India and China. He is familiar with every room in the labyrinth of Crete, while when he is introduced in the shinning halls of Valhal and Gladsheim he gropes his way like a blind man.

He does not know Idun with her beautiful apples.

When we inquire who Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are named after, and press questions in reference to Tyr, Odin, Thor and Freya, we get at best a weird and unknowing look.

Are we then, as a nation, like the Ancient Jews, and do we bend our knee before gods and goddesses of foreign nations and forsake the altars of our own gods?

In these Eddas our fathers have bequeathed unto us all their profoundest, all their sublimest and all their best thouhgts.

They are the concentrated results of their greatest intellectual and spiritual effort, and it behooves us to cherish this treasure and make it the foundation at which the whole American branch of the YGDRASIL ASH MAY IMBIBE A UNITED NATIONAL SENTIMENT.

It is not enough to brush off the dust of these gods/goddesses of our ancestors and put them up on pedestals as ornaments in our museums and libraries.

These coins of the past are not to be laid away in numismatic collections.

The grandson must use what he has inherited from his grandfather. If this coin is not enlightened, then it wil have to be sent to the mint and stamped anew, in order that it may circulate freely.

Our ancestral dieties want a place in our hearts and in our songs.

From The Younger EDDA

by: Rasmus B Anderson

S. C. Gregg and Company 1880

Can you see how far we have fallen? What are you going to do about it? I am 72 and I am peddling as fast and hard as I can!

Thank you, Ragnar Storyteller

Rasmus B Anderson