Curated playlist
Germanic studies scholars
- François-Xavier DillmannFrançois-Xavier Dillmann's French translation of Snorri Sturluson's Edda came out in 1991.
- Lotte MotzIllness ended Lotte Motz's teaching in 1984, so she turned to Norse giantesses.
- John LindowJohn Lindow became a Berkeley authority on Old Norse myth, Sami and Finnish mythology, and Inuit religion.
- Joan Turville-PetreJoan Turville-Petre, an English philologist, was married on the 7th of January 1943 with no guests in attendance. Two friends did stand beside the couple as witnesses: J. R. R. Tolkien and his wife Edith. The groom, Gabriel Turville-Petre,…
- Wilhelm MannhardtFolklorist Wilhelm Mannhardt dropped his own solar theory of myth as his survey answers came in.
- Jacob GrimmJacob Grimm and his brother expected their dictionary to take roughly ten years. It was finished in 1961.
- Hilda Ellis DavidsonHilda Ellis Davidson used burial mounds to study Norse beliefs, which was almost heretical in 1943.
- Rudolf SimekOne Austrian scholar wrote a book tracing trolls from Norse myth to the internet.
- Gabriel Turville-PetreIn August 1942, the Foreign Office sent Gabriel Turville-Petre to the Faroe Islands for two months. The stated purpose was "in order to study the inhabitants, their politics and conditions of life." Edward Oswald Gabriel Turville-Petre was…
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was shut out of French academic jobs after his thesis. His teacher told him to go abroad, to Istanbul.
- Peter Andreas MunchPeter Andreas Munch, a trained lawyer, became Norway's leading medieval historian. He also entered the Vatican archives.
- Viktor RydbergA single 1862 book kept Viktor Rydberg out of the Swedish Academy for fifteen years. It denied that Christ was divine.
- Åke OhlmarksTolkien wrote a guide to names because of a Swedish translator. Åke Ohlmarks had altered The Lord of the Rings.