The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths. Padraic Colum

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       Padraic Colum

      The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664128003

Table of Contents

       PART I THE DWELLERS IN ASGARD

       FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO

       THE BUILDING OF THE WALL

       IDUNA AND HER APPLES: HOW LOKI PUT THE GODS IN DANGER

       SIF'S GOLDEN HAIR: HOW LOKI WROUGHT MISCHIEF IN ASGARD

       HOW BROCK BROUGHT JUDGMENT ON LOKI

       HOW FREYA GAINED HER NECKLACE AND HOW HER LOVED ONE WAS LOST TO HER

       HOW FREY WON GERDA, THE GIANT MAIDEN, AND HOW HE LOST HIS MAGIC SWORD

       HEIMDALL AND LITTLE HNOSSA: HOW ALL THINGS CAME TO BE

       THE ALL-FATHER'S FOREBODINGS: HOW HE LEAVES ASGARD

       PART II

       ODIN GOES TO MIMIR'S WELL: HIS SACRIFICE FOR WISDOM

       ODIN FACES AN EVIL MAN

       ODIN WINS FOR MEN THE MAGIC MEAD

       ODIN TELLS TO VIDAR, HIS SILENT SON, THE SECRET OF HIS DOINGS

       THOR AND LOKI IN THE GIANTS' CITY

       HOW THOR AND LOKI BEFOOLED THRYM THE GIANT

       ÆGIR'S FEAST: HOW THOR TRIUMPHED

       THE DWARF'S HOARD, AND THE CURSE THAT IT BROUGHT

       FOREBODING IN ASGARD

       LOKI THE BETRAYER

       LOKI AGAINST THE ÆSIR

       THE VALKYRIE

       THE CHILDREN OF LOKI

       BALDUR'S DOOM

       LOKI'S PUNISHMENT

       SIGURD'S YOUTH

       THE SWORD GRAM AND THE DRAGON FAFNIR

       THE DRAGON'S BLOOD

       THE STORY OF SIGMUND AND SIGNY

       THE STORY OF SIGMUND AND SINFIOTLI

       THE STORY OF THE VENGEANCE OF THE VOLSUNGS AND OF THE DEATH OF SINFIOTLI

       BRYNHILD IN THE HOUSE OF FLAME

       SIGURD AT THE HOUSE OF THE NIBELUNGS

       HOW BRYNHILD WAS WON FOR GUNNAR

       THE DEATH OF SIGURD

       THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

       The End.

PART I

       THE DWELLERS IN ASGARD

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FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO

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      Once there was another Sun and another Moon; a different Sun and a different Moon from the ones we see now. Sol was the name of that Sun and Mani was the name of that Moon. But always behind Sol and Mani wolves went, a wolf behind each. The wolves caught on them at last and they devoured Sol and Mani. And then the world was in darkness and cold.

      In those times the Gods lived, Odin and Thor, Hödur and Baldur, Tyr and Heimdall, Vidar and Vali, as well as Loki, the doer of good and the doer of evil. And the beautiful Goddesses were living then, Frigga, Freya, Nanna, Iduna, and Sif. But in the days when the Sun and Moon were destroyed the Gods were destroyed too—all the Gods except Baldur who had died before that time, Vidar and Vali, the sons of Odin, and Modi and Magni, the sons of Thor.

      At that time, too, there were men and women in the world. But before the Sun and the Moon were devoured and before the Gods were destroyed, terrible things happened in the world. Snow fell on the four corners of the earth and kept on falling for three seasons. Winds came and blew everything away. And the people of the world who had lived on in spite of the snow and the cold and the winds fought each other, brother killing brother, until all the people