Anthony Winterbourne Libri

Focusing on Germanic paganism, the book explores a coherent understanding of fate that transcends time, linking it to an implicit theory of truth. It examines Germanic cosmogony through vivid imagery, such as the world-tree, and analyzes metaphors of fate woven by the Norns, the Norse goddesses of destiny. By integrating philosophical and mythic-linguistic perspectives, the work provides fresh insights into the lingering influence of pagan beliefs about fate that persisted even after the Christian conversion.

By giving due weight to these themes in particular, the complexity of Wagner's final work is seen to resolve into a feminization of the nature of religious redemption."--BOOK JACKET.