CONTENTS

PART I The Dwellers in Asgard

1.

Far Away and Long Ago

3

2.

The Building of the Wall

6

3.

Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger

13

4.

Sif's Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard

27

5.

How Brock Brought judgment on Loki

34

6.

How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How Her Loved One Was Lost to Her

44

7.

How Frey Won Gerda, the Giant Maiden, and How He Lost His Magic Sword

51

8.

Heimdall and Little Hnossa: How All Things Came to Be

62

9.

The All-Father's Forebodings: How He Leaves Asgard

69

PART II Odin the Wanderer

1.

Odin Goes to Mimir's Well: His Sacrifice for Wisdom

77

2.

Odin Faces an Evil Man

82

3.

Odin Wins for Men the Magic Mead

90

4.

Odin Tells to Vidar, His Silent Son, the Secret of His Doings

99

5.

Thor and Loki in the Giants' City

102

6.

How Thor and Loki Befooled Thrym the Giant

116

7.

Aegir's Feast: How Thor Triumphed

124

8.

The Dwarf's Hoard, and the Curse that It Brought

136

PART III The Witch's Heart

1.

Foreboding in Asgard

151

2.

Loki the Betrayer

155

3.

Loki Against the Aesir

164

4.

The Valkyrie

169

5.

The Children of Loki

174

6.

Baldur's Doom

180

7.

Loki's Punishment

193

PART IV The Sword of the Volsungs and the Twilight of the Gods

1.

Sigurd's Youth

199

2.

The Sword Gram and the Dragon Fafnir

208

3.

The Dragon's Blood

215

4.

The Story of Sigmund and Signy

223

5.

The Story of Sigmund and Sinfiotli

233

6.

The Story of the Vengeance of the Volsungs and of the Death of Sinfiotli

239

7.

Brynhild in the House of Flame

245

8.

Sigurd at the House of the Nibelungs

250

9.

How Brynhild Was Won for Gunnar

255

10.

The Death of Sigurd

260

11.

The Twilight of the Gods

265