Meaning of Scandinavophile | Babel Free

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Synonym of Scandinavianist (“A supporter of Scandinavianism”).

historical

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“Baden has in 1820 claimed in a pamphlet that the Nordic myths, the whole world of the Eddic gods, were no more than the murky shadow of Greek and Roman mythology, and early medieval attempt⟳ by Northmen to copy⟳ the traditions of classical antiquity. The figures of the Edda were, Baden had emphasized, no more than a barbaric distortion of the eternal Greeks and were not a worthy subject for the fine arts or for literary treatments. The Scandinavophiles saw⟳ it differently. Magnússon replied in 1821 with a treatise in reponse, which went point⟳ by point⟳ through the supposed models transferred from Greek mythology that Baden had tried to establish⟳.”

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