The Culture of the Teutons

Survive the Jive Podcast by Survive the Jive

May 26, 202598:38History

A review of Vilhelm Grønbech's seminal work on the religion and culture of ancient Germanic peoples. Grønbech was a professor of the history of religion at the University of Copenhagen in the early twentieth century. Grø...

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