Deutsche Mythologie (
Teutonic Mythology) is a seminal treatise on Germanic mythology by
Jacob GrimmJacob Ludwig Carl Grimm , German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel...
. First published in 1835, the work is an exhaustive treatment of the subject, tracing the mythology and beliefs of the
Ancient Germanic peoplesThe Germanic peoples are a historical ethno-linguistic group, originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Indo-European Germanic languages which diversified out of Common Germanic in the course of the Pre-Roman Iron Age...
from their earliest attestations to their survivals in modern traditions, folktales and popular expressions.
- Göttingen: Dieterich, 1835.
- 2nd ed., 2 vols.
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Deutsche Mythologie (
Teutonic Mythology) is a seminal treatise on Germanic mythology by
Jacob GrimmJacob Ludwig Carl Grimm , German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel...
. First published in 1835, the work is an exhaustive treatment of the subject, tracing the mythology and beliefs of the
Ancient Germanic peoplesThe Germanic peoples are a historical ethno-linguistic group, originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Indo-European Germanic languages which diversified out of Common Germanic in the course of the Pre-Roman Iron Age...
from their earliest attestations to their survivals in modern traditions, folktales and popular expressions.
Editions
- Göttingen: Dieterich, 1835.
- 2nd ed., 2 vols. Göttingen: Dietrich, 1844.
- 3rd ed., 2 vols. Göttingen: Dieterich, 1854.
- 4th ed., curated by Elard Hugo Meyer. Berlin: F. Dümmler, 1875–78, 3 vols. Reprinted Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1965.
- James Steven Stallybrass (trans.) http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grimmst/index.php (1888); Dover Publications (1966, 2004)