The Heroes of Asgard
^.OF-CALIFO/?^ 1 i i i ^OF-CAllFOft^ ^W ^^__ A\\E-UNIVERS/A i5 s1 - ^x .8 ^^ ^So3nY3-JO^ ^OJIWD-JO^ .OF-CAIIFO% ^.OF-CAIIFO% X^"^. ^ S? A X*^ ^_ ^ s I 1 1 i I I , THE HEROES OF ASGARD PREFACE. IN preparing the Second Edition of this little volume of tales from the Northern Mythology for the press, 3? K 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 z course of the narrative. They have carefully revised the whole, corrected many inaccuracies and added o fresh information drawn from sources they had not had an opportunity of consulting when the volume < first appeared. The writers to whose works the o? Authors have been most indebted, are Simrock, u. Mallet, Laing, Thorpe, Howitt and Dasent t 5 423053 CONTENTS. MM INTRODUCTION, .. I ..'.* 9 CHAPTER L THE JESIR. PART I. A GIANT A COW AND A HERO, . 41 II. AIR THRONE, THE DWARFS, AND THE LIGHT ELVES, S 1 III. NIFLHEIM, ....... 59 IV. THE CHILDREN OF LOKI 67 V. BIFROST, UKDA, AND THE NOUNS, . 72 VL ODH.BRIR 8l CHAPTER II. HOW THOR WENT TO JOTUNHEIM. PART I. FROM ASGARD TO UTGARD, . IO9 II. THK SERPENT AND THE KETTLE, , . 130 CONTENTS. CHAPTER IIL FREY. MM PART I. ON TIPTOE IN AIR THRONE, 147 II. THE GIFT, 152 III. FAIRKST GKRD 157 IV. THE WOOD BARRI, . .163 CHAPTER IV. THE WANDERINGS OF FREYJA. PART I. THE NECKLACE BRISINGAMEN, . l6o II. LOKI THE IRON WOOD A BOUNDLESS WASTE, 177 IIL THE KING OF THE SEA AND HIS DAUGHTERS, 185 CHAPTER V.
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