Norse Mythology, Chapter 4: riassunto

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1. The narrator denies that Rome has an independent mythology and attacks Latin’s dominance in schools.
2. He praises work on Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon literature and distinguishes original Greek writing from Roman imitation.
3. He recounts Romulus’s violent career and presents Roman religious teaching as a defense of murder and power.
4. He accepts Latin’s practical importance but proposes education beginning with English and moving toward ancestral languages and literature.
5. He presents modern Greek and Icelandic as living routes into ancient and medieval writing, and cites Shakespeare against Latin-centered education.
6. He ends by linking Greek and Norse mythology with the Mosaic-Christian religion in a shared cultural mission.

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The tree image condenses the argument that education should begin with ancestral language and literature rather than Roman models.

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