Abstract
“OUR Forefathers” is a translation of a volume published originally in Danish in 1926. In his preface, the author explains that his study of the peoples who have contributed to the make-up of the populations of northern Europe is not a book but a skeleton. He modestly disclaims the qualifications for writing a book such as be has in mind. It could, he holds, only be written by a committee of experts. In default of such a committee, and in view of the improbability of such an undertaking being initiated by any but an individual, he has here sketched a history of what he calls the Gothonic nations which will comprehend the material afforded by till the various possible lines of research.
Our Forefathers, the Gothonic Nations: a Manual of the Ethnography of the Gothic, German, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian and Scandinavian Peoples.
By Dr. Gudmund Schütte. (Published with the aid of Subventions from the Carlsberg Fund and the Rask Ørsted Fund.) Vol. 1. Translated by Jean Young. Pp. xi + 302. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1929.) 21s. net.
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Anthropology and Archæology. Nature 124, 531 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124531c0
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