Keywords
gold of Rhine, German mythology, German history, Medieval Germany
Abstract
Medieval German legends regarding the gold of the Rhine have both a mythological source, as the gold of the Nibelung dwarf Andvari, and a historical Burgundian one, as a hoard possessed by the Burgundian princes. Here we point to more ancient sources of these legends, ones that are to be found in the cosmological myths and rituals of the Āryans.
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Jacob, Alexander
(2025)
"The Germanic Legends of the Gold of the Rhine and their Āryan Sources,"
Comparative Civilizations Review: Vol. 92:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol92/iss1/10
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