This book continues the series of translations of German materials from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The main theme that unites them relates to the ancient beliefs of the Germanic tribes. The cult of Odin, the interaction of Germanic and Slavic tribes, the search for the sources of the beginning of Europe - all this interested the authors of the times of national romanticism. For readers in Russian, many sources are either not familiar at all, or were not considered in the way they were perceived and interpreted by the authors of the last and the century before last.