CHAPTER SUMMARIES & GLOSSARY Urd. It is here they find the dying gods and charm that Woden gave him but he CHAPTER Freya can hardly believe these babbling accidentally casts a love spell on Roskva ghosts where once great rulers. By blowing instead. They manage to escape from what SUMMARIES Heimdall's horn Freya has cracked open the turns out to be a giant's glove! earth and awoken The Sleeping Army (the 1. The British Museum Lewis chessmen) but unfortunately she’s only 6. Thrymheim managed to wake Roskva, Alfi and Snot. Wandering around an empty British Museum Woden explains that goddess Idunn has been Reaching Thrymheim they enter Thjazi’s lair (where her dad works as a night guard) Freya abducted by the giant Thjazi, aided by evil to search for Idunn but are disturbed by his becomes mesmerised by the Lewis trickster Loki. The Sleeping Army (however daughter, the giantess. Our heroes trick her Chessmen – an ancient set of chess pieces diminished) must save her. Their punishment into handing over Idunn (who has been discovered on a Scottish island. She if they do not succeed? To be turned back into turned into a nut) by pretending that Thor's discovers a huge ceremonial Viking horn chess pieces forever – Freya included. Woden most handsome son is seeking a wife. She (Heimdall's Horn) and the urge to touch it is gives each of them a secret rune to help in warns them to leave before Thjazi returns. As irresistible…. Freya blows the horn and all hell their quest. With the warning to watch out for they climb onto Sleipnir to make their escape, breaks loose: the sound is deafening. Thjazi (who can take on the form of an eagle) the horse vanishes, and transforms into Suddenly, the walls and ceiling begin to crack, they set off for Jotunheim – land of the giants. shape shifting Loki who snatches the nut the museum alarms sound, and she is (Idunn) and makes his escape. spinning though space... 4. The River Irving 7. Hekla 2. Bifrost Travelling fast on the back of Sleipnir (the 8- legged horse ) they leave Asgard behind and Our adventurers chase Loki towards Hel, but Freya awakes, dizzy and bruised, and in the camp near a river deciding to cross into without Sleipnir it is too far to reach by road. middle of a road beside an unfamiliar boy Jotunheim at dawn. The sighting of an eagle The only option (and the most dangerous) is (Alfi), a girl (Roskva) and a giant of a man unnerves them and it is revealed to Freya that for Freya to use the magical falcon skin she (Snot) who is busy attacking cars. They half- Loki can also change form. It is while they was given to fly in via Hekla, the volcanic drag her to the Millennium bridge, up onto an pass the time reciting poetry they notice a entrance to Hel. Led by Snot (who knows the eight-legged horse (Sleipnir) and over the chalky residue appearing on their ankles – way) the gang embark on another perilous lowest rainbow Freya has ever seen – Bifrost. they are already beginning to turn to stone journey pursued by the infuriated giants. They Freya knows that Bifrost can only lead to one which will be their fate if they don't find Idunn. meet a ghost who warns them to look out for place, Asgard, realm of the gods. It becomes a corpse-eating dragon in the underworld clear that they're going to see Woden, ruler of 5. Jotunheim called Niddhog. Roskva, Snot and Freya all things. climb the Hekla while Alfi heads back They wake early the next morning and set off to Asgard to tell Thor what has 3. The Well of Urd on Sleipnir. The weather gets greyer and happened. As Freya flies into stormier and wolves howl. Eventually they the molten mouth of the In Asgard they discover Valhalla 'Hall of the come across an empty hall in a glade. They volcano, Snot and Slain' deserted. The gods are nowhere to be set up camp here but just as Freya drifts off to Roskva are seen. All that is left is a bedraggled Yggdrasil, sleep she is awoken by Snot – the roof is on dive-bombed the 'world tree', beneath which is the Well of fire! Snot tries to cast the fire-quenching by an eagle... 8. Hel Rune - old Norse letters Freya falls into the underworld and lands with Sif - wife of Thor, Goddess of battle a bump. She is sure that the others are in Y AR Thjazi – a giant who once abducted the grave danger outside. A giantess directs her SS to Hel's Hall were Loki will be, but Freya LO goddess Idunn, causing the gods to age finds the corpse-eating dragon who she tells G until her rescue she has been sent from Asgard in place of the Thor - God of thunder and battle eagle with an insult for him. He lets her go so All-Father - the God Woden (Odin) she can take his retort back to Asgard. When Throng - a crowd of people, often a she reaches the Hall she comes across Asgard - the realm of the Gods religious congregation goddess of the underworld, Hel. Loki enters, Baldr - God of beauty, innocence and peace and refuses to give back Idunn, revealing his Thrymheim - 'Thunder Home' was the plan to claim Asgard for his own once all the Beserker – a type of Norse warrior (like abode of Thjazi gods are dead. Hel asks Loki to leave and Snot) who work themselves into a rage Tyr - God of war and the skies. once he has gone Hel gives Freya a nut – before battle Idunn! Freya makes her escape. Valhalla - a majestic, enormous hall Bifrost - a burning rainbow bridge that located in Asgard, ruled over by the God 9. Asgard reaches between Midgard (the real world) Woden. and Asgard Valkyries - female fgures who decide Freya flies for her life, chased by the giant Edda - an ancient book which is a bit like a which soldiers die in battle and which eagle that has been waiting for her. She flies Norse bible, compiled by Snorri Sturluson live straight for Yggdrasil and spies Roskva and circa 1220 Alfi on the horizon standing by a gigantic pile Well of Urd (Well of Fate) - one of three of firewood. Just as she passes them they Fane - a temple or shrine wells existing beneath the roots of light the fire and behind her, Thjazi flies Freyja - Goddess of love Yggdrasil that reach into three distant, straight into the flames. She has returned with different lands. the nut and the giant is dead. To her delight Glasir - a tree bearing golden leaves she sees Snot, who she had feared was dead. described as 'the most beautiful among gods Woden (or Odin) - God of war, ruler of Freya returns to London. and men', located in the realm of Asgard all Gods outside the doors of Valhalla Yggdrasil - an immense tree that is 10. London Heimdall - owner of the horn that Freya central in Norse cosmology, in Journalists greet Freya at the blows connection to which the nine worlds exist. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to Millennium bridge along with Hel - the underworld her Mum and Dad, but will meet, and its branches extend far into the they believe her long saga? Idunn - Goddess associated with apples heavens and youth Ymir - frost giant. Ancient being and Loki - trickster and God of mischief grandfather of Woden