I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Robert Redfield who helped and encouraged me when I first began this exploration. I would like also to thank Professor Walter Goldschmidt who, some ten years ago, expressed an interest in publishing the book and thereby gave me the psychological impetus to try to finish it.
Most heartily I thank the Wenner-Gren Foundation for a grant which provided both financial and psychological support.
I also thank Miss Cude, the librarian at Northwestern State College, who went to a great deal of trouble to get me various sagas and reference books while my husband and I were doing field work among the Oklahoma Cherokee.
And finally,I would like to thank my husband who, as the Sioux Indians put it, "kept after me."
I wish to thank the following persons and publishers for permission to quote brief excerpts from their works:
Max Gluckman and the Manchester University Press: Max Gluckman, "The Logic of African Science and Witchcraft," Rhodes-Livingstone Journal, 1941.
Edgar V. Winans, Robert B. Edgerton and the American Anthropological Association: E. V. Winans and R. B. Edgerton, "Hehe Magical Justice," American Anthropologist, v. 66, No. 4, Pt. 1, p. 745-764, Aug. 1964.
Lynn White, Jr. and Basic Books, Inc.: Lynn White, Jr., "What Accelerated Technological Progress in the Western Middle Ages? " Scientific Change, ed. A. C. Crombie, Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1963.
The American Scandinavian Foundation: Henry Adams Bellows, trans., The Poetic Edda, 1957; Lawrence M. Larson, trans., The King's Mirror, 1917; Carl F. Bayerschmidt and Lee M. Hollander, trans., Njál's Saga, 1955.
The University of California Press: Jean I. Young, trans., The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, 1964.
Cambridge University Press: H. R. Ellis Davidson, The Road to Hel, Cambridge University Press, 1943; D. E. Martin Clarke, trans., The Hávamál, Cambridge University Press, 1923.
The University of Chicago Press: Rosalie and Murray Wax, "The Vikings and the Rise of Capitalism," American Journal of Sociology, 1955.
R. F. Fortune and Columbia University: Reo Fortune, "Omaha Secret Societies," Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. 14, New York, 1932.
Columbia University Press: Lawrence M. Larson, trans., The Earliest Norwegian Laws, 1935; Lee M. Hollander, trans., Old Norse Poems, 1936.
The Johns Hopkins Press: Alexandre Koyré, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.
The Journal of Asian Studies: Gananath Obeyesekere, "The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism," Journal of Asian Studies, (1963) Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 139-153.
University of Nebraska Press: Peter Hallberg, The Icelandic Saga, L962: Paul Schach and Lee M. Hollander, trans., Eyrbyggia Saga, 1959. E. 0. G. Turville-Petre, Myth and Religion of the North, London, 1964.
Clarendon Press, Oxford: E. 0. G. Turville-Petre, Origins of Icelandic Literature 1953;, Bertha S. Philipotts, "Wyrd and Providence in Anglo-Saxon Thought," Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, Vol. 13 (1928), p. 7-27.
Penguin Books Ltd.: Lucy Mair, Primitive Government, 1962; Johannes Brondsted, The Vikings, 1965.
Présence Africaine (Paris): Rev. Placide Temples, Bantu Philosophy, 1959.
Lee M. Hollander and The University of Texas Press: Lee M. Hollander, trans., The Poetic Edda, 1962; Lee M. Hollander, trans., Heimskringla University of Texas Press for the American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1964.
The University of Washington Press: Michael M. Ames, "Magicalanimism and Buddhism," Religion in South Asia, E. B. Harper, Ed., University of Washington Press, 1964.
Yale University Press: M. Burrows, "Ancient Israel," The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East, R. C. Dentan, ed., Yale University Press, 1955.
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