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The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology. Eliza Keary
Читать онлайн.Название The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology
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isbn 4057664650757
Автор произведения Eliza Keary
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Eliza Keary, Annie Keary
The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664650757
Table of Contents
PART I. A GIANT—A COW—AND A HERO.
PART II. AIR THRONE, THE DWARFS, AND THE LIGHT ELVES.
PART IV. THE CHILDREN OF LOKI.
PART V. BIFRÖST, URDA, AND THE NORNS.
CHAPTER II. HOW THOR WENT TO JÖTUNHEIM.
PART I. FROM ASGARD TO UTGARD.
PART II. THE SERPENT AND THE KETTLE.
PART I. ON TIPTOE IN AIR THRONE.
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.
PART I. REFLECTIONS IN THE WATER
PART IV. THROUGH FLOOD AND FIRE.
CHAPTER VII. THE BINDING OF FENRIR.
PART II. THE SECRET OF SVARTHEIM.
CHAPTER VIII. THE PUNISHMENT OF LOKI.
CHAPTER IX. RAGNARÖK, OR THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS.
INDEX OF NAMES, WITH MEANINGS.
PREFACE.
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, Laing, Thorpe, Howitt and Dasent.
CHAPTER I.
THE ÆSIR.
PART I. A GIANT—A COW—AND A HERO.
In the beginning of ages there lived a cow, whose breath was sweet, and whose milk was bitter. This cow was called Audhumla, and she lived all by herself on a frosty, misty plain, where there was nothing to be seen but heaps of snow and ice piled strangely over one another. Far away to the north it was night, far away to the south it was day; but all