The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology. Eliza Keary

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664650757

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       CHAPTER I. THE ÆSIR.

       PART I. A GIANT—A COW—AND A HERO.

       PART II. AIR THRONE, THE DWARFS, AND THE LIGHT ELVES.

       PART III. NIFLHEIM.

       PART IV. THE CHILDREN OF LOKI.

       PART V. BIFRÖST, URDA, AND THE NORNS.

       PART VI. ODHÆRIR.

       CHAPTER II. HOW THOR WENT TO JÖTUNHEIM.

       PART I. FROM ASGARD TO UTGARD.

       PART II. THE SERPENT AND THE KETTLE.

       CHAPTER III. FREY.

       PART I. ON TIPTOE IN AIR THRONE.

       PART II. THE GIFT.

       PART III. FAIREST GERD.

       PART IV. THE WOOD BARRI.

       CHAPTER IV. THE WANDERINGS OF FREYJA.

       PART I. THE NECKLACE BRISINGAMEN.

       PART II. LOKI—THE IRON WOOD—A BOUNDLESS WASTE.

       PART III. THE KING OF THE SEA AND HIS DAUGHTERS.

       CHAPTER V. IDŪNA'S APPLES.

       PART I. REFLECTIONS IN THE WATER

       PART II. THE WINGED-GIANT.

       PART III. HELA.

       PART IV. THROUGH FLOOD AND FIRE.

       CHAPTER VI. BALDUR.

       PART I. THE DREAM.

       PART II. THE PEACESTEAD.

       PART III. BALDUR DEAD.

       PART IV. HELHEIM.

       PART V. WEEPING.

       CHAPTER VII. THE BINDING OF FENRIR.

       PART I. THE MIGHT OF ASGARD.

       PART II. THE SECRET OF SVARTHEIM.

       PART III. HONOUR.

       CHAPTER VIII. THE PUNISHMENT OF LOKI.

       CHAPTER IX. RAGNARÖK, OR THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS.

       INDEX OF NAMES, WITH MEANINGS.

       THE STANDARD SCHOOL LIBRARY.

       Transcriber's corrections

PREFACE.

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      In preparing the Second Edition of this little volume of tales from the Northern Mythology for the press, the Authors have thought it advisable to omit the conversations at the beginning and end of the chapters, which had been objected to as breaking the course of the narrative. They have carefully revised the whole, corrected many inaccuracies and added fresh information drawn from sources they had not had an opportunity of consulting when the volume first appeared. The writers to whose works the Authors have been most indebted, are Simrock, Mallet,

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