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
EAN 4057664128003
Table of Contents
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
ODIN GOES TO MIMIR'S WELL: HIS SACRIFICE FOR WISDOM
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
THE SWORD GRAM AND THE DRAGON FAFNIR
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
PART I
THE DWELLERS IN ASGARD
FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO
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