Description
By K. F. Boult. DNA, history and archaeology have shown that the European people, or those of a close enough racial origin, have existed for around 40,000 years, of which Christianity has only been the dominant religion for less than one thousand.
This volume is a perfect introduction to the wonderful world of the Norse Gods by a master storyteller. Learn of the stories of the creation of the world, the adventures of the pantheon of Gods, as they were known, worshipped and feared by the Northern Europeans.
Find out how All-Father Odin lost his eye, how Thor came to his hammer, and how Loki spawned the beasts that helped bring about the Doom of the Gods and the fall of Asgard. Included in this majestic overview are the legends of the Volsung, Völund the Smith, the Nibelung (the Burgundians), the Rhine Gold, and the astonishing saga of Ragnar Lodbrog, the first of the great Vikings.
This is one of the most complete and satisfying overviews of the Norse beliefs ever published.
Contents
Part I: The Norse Gods
Introduction
Of the Settlement of Iceland
I. Of the Chief Gods
II. Of King Gylfi and the Beginning of the World
III. Of All-Father’s Sacrifice
IV. Of Frey and Gerd, the Giant Maid
V. Of Breisinga-men and Freyja
VI. Of Bragi the Poet and Idun
VII. Of Thiassi the Giant
VIII. The Wedding of Skadi
IX. Of How Thor came by Miölnir
X. Of Thor’s Doings in Jotunheim
XI. Of Thor and Jörmungand
XII. Of Baldur’s Doom
XIII. Of Hermodr’s Journey
XIV. Of Loki and his Children
XV. The Flyting of Loki
XVI. The Doom of the Gods
Part II: Norse Heroes
Sigurd The Volsung
I. Of King Volsung and the Branstock
II. Of the Slaying of the Volsungs
III. Of the Avenging of the Volsung
IV. The Death of Sinfjötli and of Sigmund
V. The Land of Hjaalprek the Helper, and the Birth of Sigurd
VI. The Rhine-Gold
VII. The Slaying of the Worm
VIII. The Waking of Brynhild
IX. Gudrun
X. The Wedding of Brynhild
XI. The Betraying of Sigurd
XII. Of Gudrun’s Woe and the Return of the Rhine-Gold
Völund The Smith
Ragnar Lodbrog
I. Thora
II. Aslaug
III. Ragnar and Aslaug
IV. Ragnar’s Sons
V. The Vengeance of Ivar
Glossary
Index
169 pages. Paperback.
