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taken in Northern Archseology. The Society has
continued to flourish, and has accomplished innch
by its lahors. It is in friendly cooperation vdth
the Arna-Magnsean Oommission, and through their -
joint labors all the important literature of the Old-
North will doubtless be brought before the world.
The great success of this Society incarrying forward
the objects of its formation, especially in the
publication of the old literature in the original text
and in translations, has been mainly owing to the
indefatigable labors of its learned Secretary, Pro-
fessor C. 0. Eafn, who, with enthusiastic love of
Scandinayian Antiquity, devotes his energies to the
restoration of its literary monuments.
In the mean time, as the study of Northern Anti-
quities was extended, a countless number and vari-
ety of works appeared on the subject, both in Germany
and in the North. The mythic and heroic
Sagas were treated of and variously explained, numerous
journals appeared, which were wholly or
partially, devoted to subjects of Archaeology, and
the material of the Eddas and Sagas were seized
upon by poets and artistically wrought out into
beautifal and attractive forms. Thus a knowledge
of the heathen gods became impressed upon the
people, and the name of Odin was again heard as
far and as frequently as in former days, when pronounced
by the lips of his worshipers.
Among the mythological works of this period, we
may mention Creutzer's "Symbolik," Gorres' "My-
thic History,"* Kanne's " Pantheon," Mone's " His-
* " Mythengesohichte der alten Welt," 1810.