Excerpt from History of German Literature: Based on the German Work of Vilmar I. The Oldest Period. II. The Old Period. III. The New Period. The First of these Periods he makes to commence at the middle of the fourth century, and go down to the year 1150. During this period occurred the struggle between Heathenism and Christianity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.