Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Peter Edward Stroehling, Nils Blommér and Nicolai Abildgaard. The Norse gods presented as the religion of the ancestors rather than as fable - Odin, the world tree, Ragnarok - by the Wisconsin professor who founded Scandinavian studies in America and later served as minister to Denmark. This edition adds 58 plates of paintings by August Malmström, Peter Nicolai Arbo, Nikolaus Lauer and Lorenz Frølich, dating from 1750 to 1905, alongside one restored and coloured in-text illustration.