At The Origins Of The Norse Mythology

"But to take advantage of this beautiful precept, it is necessary to know first of all one's origin, the religious ideas, the way of life and the way of thinking of one's ancestors. We must go back to the primitive source of history, following the traces of the glorious exploits of our ancestors, even when they are lost in the night of the fable, when they fade away in the darkness of the past time or are hidden in the poetry of the myth.
Certainly, it is necessary to agree that it is in the myth that the first form of truth is revealed ; that the serious idea that this primitive population of the North had conceived of life, as well as the ardent desire to grasp and understand the divinity, is betrayed ; it is in the myth that the first germ of the history and the religion of a people grows. " And this knowledge of mythology, where do we find it ? In the Edda, which is the most ancient literary monument of Scandinavian poetry.