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THE
HEROES OF ASGARD
TALES FROM SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY
BY
A.
&
E.
KEARY
Neto gotfc
CO., LTD.
(9
New edition
September, 1906.
NottoQot fhrat
Berwick
ft
PREFACE.
IN preparing the Second Edition of
this little
volume
conversations
at
chapters, which
the
beginning
it
whole, corrected
fresh information
of the
to as breaking the
They have
many
end
and
carefully revised
inaccuracies
and added
appeared.
Authors have
The
been
writers
most
to
indebted,
are
and Dasent
259890
Simrock,
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER L
THE
PART
I.
II.
A GIANT
A COW
^ESIR.
AND A HERO,
THRONE, THE
LIGHT ELVES,
AIR
....
NIFLHEIM,
IV.
V.
ODH&RIR,
.......
CHAPTER
I.
4!
59
67
72
8l
IL
THE
51
III.
VL
PART
AND
DWARFS,
JOTUNHEIM.
IO9
IJO
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
IIL
FREY.
PART
I.
II.
.......
THE
GIFT,
III.
FAIREST GBRD.
IV.
III.
147
152
163
l6o
CHAPTER
II.
MM
157
IV.
THE WANDERINGS OF
PART L
FREYJA.
.
CHAPTER
177
185
V.
IDUNA'S APPLES.
PART
I.
II.
....
.
IQI
198
212
III.
HELA,
IV.
FIRE,
Il8
CHAPTER VL
BALDUR.
PART L
IL
m.
IT.
T.
THE DREAM
THE PEACESTEAD,
BALDUR DEAD,
HELM KIM,
WEEPING,
*3'
240
247
.......
.
25,,
256
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
VII.
PART
I.
II.
III.
.......
CHAPTER
263
272
279
VIII.
THE PUNISHMENT OF
CHAPTER
LOKI,
285
IX.
RAGNAROK.
OR,
295
315
ot
...
..
86
US
.
MOB
.17*
195
.
227
265
292
INTRODUCTION.
IF
we would understand
we ought
Scandinavians,
all
another, has
by
in
Simrock,
Mythologie,
where
he
at
study
most
they
are
also
latter
Handbuch
tells
younger than
may
choked-up
streams
but
which,
flows,
be
us
draw-
is
which
to
be
effected
Dcutschen
der
that
whilst
more
those
compared
from
it
same
beautifully
which
the
been
his
to
Teutonic nations.
with
of
the
definite,
Germany,
to
ancient
the
fuller
half
river
remarked, that
10
has mingled in
river
both religions
were
Grimm
flowing.
German and
the
main
the
in
its
Northern
the
in
though
identical,
says that
details
Scandinavia
not
is
it
anywhere
and
hopes and
childlike
into
count
ice
its
images
halls
gems
best
Ah
into
if
but
dark guesses,
crude
expressions,
walk
old
crystal-
of
system
belief
the
through
frozen
wonder
at
and
faith,
fearful
its
from which
heart-reach ings
flowed,
narrowly
world
can
the
warm
but the
of
and
than
old
definite
we
Europe,
rather
the
find
poetic
Yes,
of
part
there,
fears,
pretty
worship.
glittering
that
we should
else,
imaginings,
other
any
surprising
wants and
lised
in
in
we can
only
into
here
and
there.
the
poem
again
pry
darkly
feel,
The
most
myths,
striking
are
which follow,
tales
little
and
put
picturesque
together in
form,
and
make
the subject
were
written
the
only
interesting
to
drawn from
of
simplest
with
the
Northern
the
possible
design
children.
to
By-and-
INTRODUCTION.
bye, however, as
in
to,
to consider what
try
we can
if
their
them
duction to
to
will
seems
without
give a
Scandinavian
earliest
short
of the
account
may
be,
and
to
not be uninteresting
meaning
it
and
scarcely intelligible
it
the
trace
At present
another.
means become
their
slight
belonging
we through
II
sketch
very slight
gathered from
is
it
intro-
they would be
it
as
sources,
sources
as an
best,
well
which
from
as
it
is
gathered.
in
Laing,
the
introduction
is
its
breath
has no existence,
viduals.
of
is
life,
Northmen were
wheresoever
they
landed,
Translation
nation's litera-
congregation of indicenturies
his
"A
but a
to
the
in
which the
and conquering
literature
was locked
up
in
of
Northmen had a
literature
the
a dead
But
Ia
as
it
was."
of the north
this literature
and
Then Saemund
and
commit them
to
began
others,
bom
1057,
year
been
fifty
established
positively
in
at
full,
that
instructed
things,"
so
would give
in
every
Italy,
kind of
lore."
place here.
He
own
his
name
who he
little
which,
anecdote
however,
When he
priest of
him, studied
even
and
was,
he
and a charming
capacity,
all
when asked
that
the
reading about
became
He
island.
learnt, that
commonest
this
had
Christianity
that
in
writing.
he had
identity,
after
to
Iceland about
in
whom he was
So
years
the Learned,
the
to
is
be an astrologer,
related of
would
be
him
in
out
of
writing
INTRODUCTION.
a history of
Norway and
lost,
several of the
transcribed
known
name of
the
by
The
Scemund's Edda.
the
date
from
about
Ssemund wrote
them
down
oldest copy of
his
posed
to
original
Library of
much
for
the
or
in
is
now
few
is
said
to
of the
in the
years
The
the twelfth.
MS.
is
century
eighth
the Elder
of
history
four-
Royal
ago they
Thorpe.
Edda
So
great-
mean, but
after
We
great-grandmother.
up,
the
English by B.
into
Copenhagen.
were translated
Elder,
Poetic,
have traced
her growing
herself,
and we
she
to
When we
tells
us,
too,
we
ing whether
we
listen
find
it
fault
is
to the
are
odd jumble of
more than
tales
half inclined
You
are
too young to
know what
I4
plain
oh
but,
dear
many
contemporaries,
Supreme
twice
Icelandic
at Oddi,
who
Republic,
and who
has
him
"Snorro
many
of
history
some time
for
wrote
Saemund's
Amongst
of commentary
sort
Laing says
done
for
the
Edda
probably
the
valuable additions
has
Sturleson
of
Magistrate
of
fifty
of Snorro Sturleson,
lived
also
left
some
about
and,
successors;
we hear
man,
scarcely
sagas; he had
we can
understand you.
or
drawn
for
the
the
other things, he
enlargement
of
MSS.
of
from
at Oddi.
This
Snorrds
called
is
the
Prose,
Younger,
into
French.
many
Added to
ology,
there
are
scattered
through
Northern
literature
many
the
years ago
abounds.
by M.
Scandinavian
allusions
heroic
or
to
lays
myth-
the
myths
with
which
1NTROD UCTION.
The
Edda
Poetic
of two
consists
the
parts
The mythological
mythological and the heroic.
songs contain an account of the formation and
destruction of the world, of the origin, genealogies,
adventures,
magic
incantations,
called
ethical.
cludes
with
the
Thorpe,
gods,
which may be
the
Edda
"The Song
English
con-
of
Ssemund
supposed
the
himself
translator,
says,
own
poet's
may
lay
portion of
is
it
one
called
song
of which
Sun,"
and
This
of the
conversations
journeys,
religion
was
remark
as well
it
of this
single
last
song,
in
strophe
a transition
in
here
would seem
that
state.
the
We
that
an incantation
is
"An
When
No
Which
savours
curiously
to
of
do thee harm."
the
horror
which
16
heathens
these
then
the
new
queer old
lady
a sort of story.
She
of
felt
evidently
faith.
The
Edda
Younger
She begins by
indeed.
a very
is
telling
wisdom and
for his
with a desire to
also
wishing
off
know
about
all
the gods,
on a journey
When
abode.
in
skill
Three seated
to
Asgard
he gets there
upon
finds
thrones
three
first-hand, sets
the gods'
itself,
he
own
a mysterious
the
The
this picture
and
High,
the
story-teller is
from a temple at
introduces
himself as Gangler,
and proceeded
of
origin
of the
the
gods,
to question the
the Elder
hort
the
world,
&c, &c.
for
traveller
gang),
a name
Edda
nature and
Gangler's
questions,
talcs,
summary we want of
adventures
and
reference
the
INTRODUCTION.
ology
the
"What was
and Har
grown
mythology
frozen tight, as
we
find
and
up
old,
and
in the Eddas.
it
When
all
the age
was not-
And nowhere
grass."
On
Ginnungagap, he
nebulous
home
says,
in
it.
lay Niflheim,
the shadowy
Niflheim,
and sent
forth
twelve rivers
called
and so
filled
and
the
froze
but sparks
l8
and
flakes
of
from Muspellheim
fire
Ginnungagap on
ice.
the
north
fell
side
upon the
now
was
filled
whirlwinds, but
melted
still
into
drops,
the
air;
frost,
and
so,
the frost
life,
"Was he
him
to have
on
too,
to
Har went
"
Good,"
the
covered with
on
to relate
of
stones
salt
Ginnungagap, which
" Slu
were
how by
cow
licked
them, good,
not like Ymir, but the father of the gods; and here
we may remark
INTROD UCTION.
ants.
Ymir was
to
became the
"Was
it,"
Bur
But
mix
for
first
there any
giant,
degree of good
races?" asks
understanding
all
tells
flesh
it,
heavens and
of
his
flakes
the
the middle of
into
skull
how
Ginnungagap, made
"Far
Gangler.
replies
and Ve.
brains
trees,
of his
the
clouds.
from Muspellheim,
in the heavens."
" The
About
the
this
time
it
happened
that the
sons of
20
first
And
After this
it
is
goodly colour."
waning
moon,
whereby
to reckon years."
Then
temples,
tools
at
" made
after
and
and fabricated
joyously with
tables.
This
"To
want
of gold,
until
came
there
three maids
all
it
Then
order that these might get gold for them out of the
INTRODUCTION.
The
earth.
dwarfs
till
now
A shadow
likeness.
is
want of gold
"Odin hurled
human
The gods
the
received
past.
happen.
things
2i
first
discover
war breaks
his spear
the
three
use
or
,out, as it is said,
first
her by a
name
as
if
"
she were a person), they pierced
with lances,
Hall
Of evil
The
sisters,
people."
Present
practised,
mixed cause of
moment when
all
and
in
Future.
this
They
the
came
things; they
came
at
the
22
saying.
"After
another,
or,
the
happy no hour
German
of a
an old
is
time begins"
golden age,
the words
in
once
The golden
age ceased
the
"
the bringers
"To
existence, at
its
proverb,
And now
strikes."
is
let
maids
fateful
"Round
giants
a frozen region
circle
men
to
fat
full
round.
of frost
middle of
in the
in the
has been
in.
without," Har
The outmost
whom Har
midst of
It
seems
in the
hill.
at the
the earth.
if
However,
Asgard was
to
the
picture
of the
make
it
in
the middle of
the city
more con-
on the summit of a
hill
INTRODUCTION.
stands at the
remark that
this
must
picture
It is rather
what
and
its
we have
is
not be
" That
three roots.
looked at
an expression of
tried to figure
"
ash,
and
of
Its
trees."
all
goes
over
down
it,
shall hear
The
to Ginnungagap.
and over
by
this root is
heaven.
One
It
of them
we
more of by-and-bye.
In the picture
this
cauldron
gnaws
lies
it
under
men know
of.
ash
in
day
suffers
Nidhogg
heaven
as
the
greater
tears it"
old
lay
says.
hardship
than
Under
it,
night and
"Yggdrasil's
root
live
this root
The
under
third
it,
in
it,
Rainbow's arch
in their
Urda Fount.
They water
Urda's Fount."
of
fix
they
the
man
that
born there
is
a norn
is
"
were born
far
"Some
race,"
we
hawk between
his
called
eyes,
four
Ratatosk or branch
ran
harts
borer
and a
ran
up
says,
causing
strife
INTRODUCTION.
Such
the
is
myth of
Grimm remarks
bears
"it
Of
unfolded."
it
course,
35
the
stamp of a very
appear to be
not
fully
was such a
tree.
The
was
it
ern
Antiquities
this
time,
in its
the symbol ?
"We
says,
or rather of universal
nature,
ever
varying
eternity."
It is called
we
One
and of renovation
acting
upon
abyss,
it.
terror,
and the
horror, fear
first
syllable
We
is
horse or bearer
best of trees."
"but besides
this
Allfather,
Odin
Bor by a
and
is
it
eldest of the
him
call
gods?"
Allfather," says
Har,
giantess,
Woden, the
son
eldest
of
is
Har
quite true, as
He
names.
and
first
"We
asks.
Gangler
the
is
says, that
he has
many
him
in
names when he
but generally,
of the
first
heaven
travelled,
he was Odin.
chiefly,
calm or storm
from
this
lies at
name
The meaning
is
terror (like
air
spirit,
" as in the
king of gods,
simple ideas of the people,"
he
as
says,
"nature and
spirit are
much a commander
inseparable; he
of the
spirits of
became
men
as of
most
Air,
widespread and
how
naturally akin
spirits
it
of
listeth,
men.
it
seems
which moves
Inspiration,
INTROD UCTION.
madness, poetry, warrior-rage, the storm of wind,
the thunder-god
Odin was
Jord
(the
Vidar, Vali,
we
in
and he had a
them
Thor
all.
giantess mother,
these
Har enumerates
Hodur,
Besides
earth).
sons of Odin
Odin
find
his father,
Baldur, Tyr,
to
we
mind
the storm of
belong
them by-and-bye.
All these were of the race of the ^Esir or Asgard
not clear
the JEsir.
deities
the
different race,
made peace
still
known
in
it
it
is
simply
Amongst
of Nipen
and
and
distinct
These were of a
goddesses.
is
little
Norway,
the
his
these
we
original
son and
rain, sunshine,
and the
fruits
and of
love,
lived
upon
,8
called
sea-king
whose nature
-Dgir,
not quite
is
occasionally mentioned
also
mysterious being
requires a
little
the
in
Edda
But there
whom we name
explanation.
and
besides a
because he
last
This
tales,
is
Loki.
is
He
Odin when
that
god took
his fateful
seashore and
work
the
yet
evil
sometimes
gods,
it
is
at
least
as
friend,
and
"Some
being.
call
all
fraud
and
Loki is
disgrace of gods and men.
"
handsome," he adds, and well made, but of a very
mischief, the
fickle
passes
perfidy."
Loki's
beings in
disposition.
being
as
air
evil
He
sur-
lies
fire lies
in
evil in
it,
that
at the root of
of
Odin,
fire
of his evil-hcartedncss.
From
INTRODUCTION.
it is
as
29
it
spiritual
The name
sin.
Good and
alter with
to.
the law
By
of Loki,
it is
the knowledge
is
said,
may mean
the
bright element.
Amongst
the goddesses
who were
called Asyniur,
tribes of
would be
similar,
their
faiths
tribes.
by
Simrock
deities
little
which looks as
if
may
so
say,
discernible.
that
We
the
between them
line
is
dif-
one
still
of the
beneficent
ice
strange
of
might
waves;
the
primeval
gods;
its
giant;
endurance,
He
first
place
to
"What
say
Gangler; and
there
concerning the
hast thou
Har
come a
will
to
tell
me
"In
replied,
1
winter;*
and
supreme
and
fire,
and
of
warfare, a
evil,
the
out
conflict;
chaotic powers
ice
all
the
powers
INTRODUCTION.
and
of Niflheim
on
Muspellheim
one
of
the
universe,
on the other
all
which
ash,
side, the
the course
rage
itself
within,
trembles,
and
"Groans
that
alike
with
fall,
whom
moon, and
earth
"
sinks
the
stars
Monsters
tree."
aged
the sun,
made away
and the
are
into the
flood,
account
is
mixed
so
that
with,
it
to
gods
it
Brighter,
one
would seem,
The
purer?
of
says,
days gone
"Few may
as one of
by,
them
see
Further forth
Notwithstanding,
contemplate
noble,
very
this
we cannot
myth,
grimly
help
feeling,
that there
courageous
was
in
its
as
we
something
fatalism,
3a
Simrock
is
says,
like
the
golden years,
came with
gods
(we
the
all,
the renewing;
is
it
the
struggle,
be
not,
fell
the
in
hanging over
all,
the
twilight,
for
which
them
trace
and above
following tales);
crowning
shall
that
evil
evil,
shadows
death
all
the
beginning,
to
fated
evil
kinds,
the
world's
shadow of
first
times,
of various
upon
The
drama."
it
all,
end,
the
observed,
recorded
is
in
this
had
been
these.
chiefly
us,
the giants
fighting
them
know
destruction
as
far
again
from
that
this
drama
fatalism
as
and
impossible
in
one
the
times;
own
final
their
possible,
again,
help
they ward
hoping
dauntless
admiring
off
through
to
that
powers
had
formed
two
things
The two
The gods
another.
earliest
ways,
that
Ragnarok
and combat.
a thousand
arc fixed
to
struggling
these,
Looking through
strike
do not contradict
they
by
brought
(called the
myth
the
the
fight
they go
on
even though
and
defeat
end.
the impulses
shadow
It
is
which
INTRODUCTION.
led to the
to
in
were,
defiance of
it,
after
inevitable.
Of
course
natural
that
of
alternate
the
this
it
most
of
spite
all
but
the
was
perfectly
heat,
unceasing
should
worshippers of the
but
one
must,
some moral
men by
geous
time
earth,
spirit
the
We
read
natural
world,
acquired
heathen North-
come
to
be
of
deal
good
Scandinavian
of
of married
lady
love
this
self-surrender
and
myths
heroic
and
coura-
comes
tales.
cause
my
mined."
die,
the
in
have
Odin had
of conflict and
when implored
was
the
hearth.
into
that
these
and
light
arise
think,
to
strife,
nourishing
the
significance
the
Allfather,
of
would
of the
simple and
minds of any
it
courageous
servants
of
conception
and
cold
darkness,
who were
the
who
die,
building up,
of this idea,
33
but
age
to
desist
decreed
and
In a lay of Odin,
the
fair
fame
my
it
never
whole
"
says,
dies
life
We
of
deter-
ourselves
him who
34
earned
has
and
it;"
reminds
this
deeds upon
warlike
their
was
young
warrior
"they
gave him
which
was
of
related
is
first
white
*
the
called
which he carried
It
at
their
us
the
smooth
of
of
said,
buckler,
expectation,'
he had earned
until
is
it
enlisted,"
shield
the
"When
shields.
and
of
records
record."
its
an
in
engagement,
was
resistance
chests
But
better
far
having been
with
all
further
treasure
out
and, calling
the
is
thrown
enemy, and
his
without arms,
wait
his
two
"Overboard
Bui's
all
that
seeing
he took
fruitless,
of gold
full
and
the
following
upon
the
his
"
:
back
latter
in
warrior
wrestling
himself
finding
fetched
Such
sword
to
kill
him,
and
he
faithfully
word."
kept his
traits
as these
lie
on the
light
side of the
is
such a
we cannot
shut
INTRODUCTION.
35
and
sagas whose
Amongst
still
king
says, that
prisoners,
They were
after
Hakon
all
seated
on a log of wood,
he came out
execution.
sea-
rover, called
and one
in the
details are
other stories,
more frequently
The
looked on
the account
watch the
after breakfast to
sea-rovers all
unflinching courage,
met
whilst
off,
fate with
their
but when
it came to
Sigurd's turn, and he was asked
what he thought of death, he answered, " I fear not
let
by a
slave,
my
tells
us he had
or stained with
flowing in ringlets
cruel
king
long
fair
my
hair
blood."
hair,
as
followers,
The
story
as
silk,
fine
Hakon's
being
life,
be touched
One
of the
moved,
it
36
the
executioner
struck,
who was holding his hair had both his hands cut off,
"and this practical joke so pleased the king's son,"
continues the
"Thou
tale,
tellest
" that he
gave Sigurd his
me many
life,"
halls,
and
Baldur's,
Frigga's,
and
who
fell
in
battle
who were
and
Gangler,
at the
Why
are?
not ask,
"
says Har,
And
forty
"
in Valhalla,
in
and out"
doors
eke
there
INTRODUCTION.
"But what does Odin
" The
asked Gangler.
nir,
and
truly
flesh
is
this is
how much
37
it
it is
its
"
And what
have
the heroes to drink ?" asked Gangler " for they must
require a plentiful supply;
"A
silly
would
invite kings
great hardships
find they
drink.
is
is
quite
"
themselves
when they
when
otherwise,
ride into
in
mead
spare."
Mighty
how do
the heroes
are not
drinking?"
but
things these,
amuse
Valhall there
enough
jarls
to drink
but water?
would
"
is
fight
till
their pastime
38
"Odin
in Valhall."
Gangler, "as
it
is
great
said
is
in
poems,
"TheashYggdrasill
Is the
first
of Trees,
As
Skidbladnir of ship%
Odin of ^Lsir
Sleipnir of steeds,
Eiirost of bridges,
Bragi of Lards,
Habrok of hawks
And Garm
" But do
all
of hounds is."
below
in
dead
which
was
ruled
over
by
No down
;
home
the
of the
underworld
and
discomfort,
were rather
and as
all
its
according
characteristics than
to
one
it
account,
actual suffering;
Cold-
was probably
at
who
died
one time
punishment
the
The
cold, hidden-away
of
condition of
warm
life
of
INTRODUCTION.
unless, indeed, they could lay claim to
life
by
here.
a second higher
virtue
By degrees
into
39
suffering;
missed
There
glories.
is
it
refers to
a description given
it is
of
in these words,
"A hall
standing
northward,
Venom
fall
drops
Through
its
apertures
Through
sluggish streams,
Bloodthirsty
men
And perjurers
Now,
says
Har
that
finished
40
his description of
Ragnarok,
" If
thou, Gangler, hast
for
heard a
"
never heard
will
"Upon
terrible
happen
tell
who
of any one
other ages of
in the
noise
all
round him
he looked
And
He
city,
therefore
set
so disappears king
Gylfi.
nor
over
listening
stories
the
and god
bers,
and a
on
and
we
will
stories,
bit that
will try to
go on
giant
one remem-
make
the story
to ourselves as they
we may have
standing them.
little
go on, translating
Gylfi,
that
the time
own common
king
great-grandmothers'
stories
little bit
all
tellers clear to
so that
like
inquisitive
to
at least
a chance of under-
THE
JZSIR.
4!
CHAPTER L
THE
PART L
A GIANT
A COW
AND A HERO,
lived a cow,
whose
This
cow was
called
herself
on a
nothing
to
frosty,
be
it
day; but
was
all
night,
by
seen
north
all
far
away
to the
south
it
was
down upon
Audhumla.
You must
said
was
bitter,
certainly
he liked
me
well,
and
him
for
little
cow looked
while the
for
something to eat,
of
salt
The
again,
The
the
made them
glittering.
golden hair;
and
ice,
of the
glitter
salt
described,
was
more
handsome
and a wonderful
when he saw
alt
round her
all
its
was
it
good enough.
After a
salt,
let
The
the head;
light
than
beamed
giant frowned
but
Audhumla
ice.
be
could
of
out
still
more
licked
the
hero majestic
Now,
full in
it
in strength
happened
and marvellous
that
when
in beauty.
the giant
looked
with his
still
him
worse, he
THE MSIR.
took a terrible oath, by
43
all
And he
ground.
fighting until
I cannot
tell
kept his
Bur had
how
dead
lie
the
upon
fallen
it
but so
beautiful;
it
when
the
times.
many
many
giant,
combats, did at
and pierced
his
his
old
keen
in
it
all
who ran
excepting one,
and
Odin
cousins,
we have won a
or have run
him
called round
and spoke
to
great victory
away from
us.
them thus
;
"
:
Heroes,
We
44
is
fight against"
The
Odin.
one to
fight against
" It
out with one voice,
is
we
well spoken,
Odin
"heat
lies,
and
the
sun
follow you."
"Southward,"
northward
answered
Odin,
From
night.
the
dim
On
his right
all;
and west-
and they
father.
east
westward home."
to
all
On
his left
paid
a king and
strong,
Brave
born
blind;
the
Silent
After him
Hermod,
the
Flying
shell chariot, in
Word;
lords
was
Bragi,
and heroes;
which
sat Frigga,
THE &S1R.
the wife
of Odin,
with
all
and tirewomen.
Eleven months they journeyed westward, enlivening the
way with
and
the twelfth
tents
at
and conversation,
cheerful songs
upon a range of
hills
The
their
sea-coast,
and ran
among
and
gorse
maidens
at
bushes,
returned
always
resigned
length
furiously about
themselves
to
sleep,
deal at intervals.
ever;
for
he
felt
And
for
in
the morning,
struck, a most
and
from
tore
over
in
that
certain
terrific
pieces
the
night,
something
how-
unusual
were
the
water
all
damask
furiously
coverings,
up
hills,
the
swept
mountain
and up again
46
all
heroes.
forwards,
down on
sat
to displace
him
comfort
his
to
Tyr
and
whilst
mother,
poor
But Odin
Frigga.
tell
us in what
called), cease
that
in
grew
into a shape
limbed, uncertain
after
a few low
in
titter-
dying
Then Niord,
rest
"We
know,
the
mighty Odin
^sir
that
THE &SIR.
to say, the lords of the whole earth
is
We,
since
too, are
air,
you
lords,
and we
if
let us,
was
like
heartily, as
it
did
hand, which
Odin grasped
all
And, as he
become one of
chief,
whom
company, and
their
live
To
this
his
kinsfolk,
his
new
and on
steadily
summit of a
HilL
took
and strode
cheerfully
After
friends.
this
westward
lofty
There they
they
until
mountain,
all
sat
along amongst
they
called
round
journeyed
on
reached the
the
Meeting
in a circle,
and
bourhood.
As
" Is
suddenly, and said,
that
we do not
find
it
48
fled
from
escaped
drowning in
his
blood?"
father's
"
and who
us,
Perhaps he has
into
fallen
Niflheim,
and so
rolled,
the
and
"Yonder, beyond
said,
up
cities
It
and
that sea,
is
castles,
there
and
his children
"How
do you know
that,
when
little
journeys to Jotunheim,
"This
"
is
indeed
"Not
news,"
said
Frigga;
earth."
answered
so,"
terrible
come
upon
city,
Odin,
this
"not
very
hill,
from which we
its
so,
we
will
my
dear
will build
keep guard
THE &SIR.
and from whence we
49
will
upon Jotunheim."
"That
remarkably well
is
said,
Father
Odin,"
all
the
^Esir
city
on the
to
set
said nothing
work
with
their
was
to
in them, so
fulfil
strong a purpose
it.
fetch
to
disdain
so
stones
in
their
ladies
did not
marble
wheel-
and
mortar upon
And
Then
all
looked at
ness.
beautiful
it
Towering
mix the
tower above
crowned the
little
their
hill.
distance,
great
and
happi-
earth.
On
50
live;
hall,
had
Valhalla,
and
five
hundred and
gates,
smithy,
situated
on
also
a large iron
the eastern
side
of
That
night
to the
their
they
health
the
city,
supped
ID
of their strong,
City of Asgard," as
it
men
There was
their
forty entrance-
ought to be called
Bragi, their
THE
PART
II.
IN
the
looked
over
stood
all
about
it
"The
but,
whilst
earth,
^Esir
earth
the top of
part,
whole
the
is
his
very
beautiful,**
throne,
Odin, from
said
beautiful
"very
in
every
fearful.
the
At
men
this
of the earth
moment
see
of Jotunheim.
sea,
are
puny
and
three-headed
He
throws
Now
and cracks
bones
as
if
52
were
they
hazel-nuts,
the
all
whilst,
men
time,
"last night I
to
Jotunheim."
"The men
of
again.
earth
are
and play
them,
moment
wheat
the
in
see
hideous
furrows,
little
live
to
At
prevent
two
elves,
stupid,"
who
tricks
and
idle
said Odin.
amongst
the
whilst
dwarf runs
beings,
are
after
Again, I see
into stones.
who
of
holding under
put
it
three
into
jars,
and
hidden
it
away."
that
to
him
Hermod,
his
Flying
for
so he
Word,
to the dwarfs
and
and
THE MSIR.
light elves, to say that
53
Odin sent
his compliments,
When
received
they
much
ners,
to
afraid.
and went
swarm of
When
summons
Hermod's
clustering
feel
surprised,
honoured
pertest
Hermod
after
like
ladybirds.
Hermod
of Gladsheim.
and pointed
to the
flew
in,
his mission.
come
sitting
Judgment Hall
to
or
man-
the. r
the
the
fulfilled
little
people
forward.
on a
little
way
and
it
now back
was not
serious
to
again, half
until
finally
them
Odin had
reached his
in calm, low,
their
mis-
54
chievous propensities.
Some, the
worst
very
of
elves
little
all
for
whilst the
the
two
the
things.
dwarfs by
wept,
wise man.
to
he
it,"
" that
you mixed with honey and put into jars
"Oh,"
little
asked,
?"
air,
He
Don't you
made between
sprang up
years or more;
lying in
Well, just
a meadow drowned
we mixed
his
men
he must be a god.
blood
own wisdom ;
in his
Was
thought
it
so
into
Odin?"
"Well
You
you
done!" answered
cruel,
kill
cowardly,
him.
lying dwarfs
For shame
"Well
Odin.
for
shame
done!
myself saw
w
I
and then
THE
Odin proceeded
to
55
pass
live,
and were
to
henceforth, a long
spend
said,
way underground,
upon
who had
the gold
said;
They might
hand, and
his
out of the
known,
city,
"And
you,"
said
Oh
fields,
round,
to their un-
But
earth-homes.
the
tearful,
light
smiling
morning dew.
Odin,
them through
looking
"and you
"
Odin, we
Then he
the palace-steps,
like sunshiny
Odin
night,
turned
dwarfs
deep-buried
still
the
at
dawn.
the
scampered down
shrilly chattering,
faces,
come up
waved
elves
all
" Oh
We
indeed,
have never
"Have you
asked Odin.
ever
done
anybody any
good?"
56
"
Oh
answered
indeed,"
no,
"You may
amongst the
said
"to
Odin,
live
flowers,
and summer
elves,
light
at alL"
then,"
go,
the
You
insects.
something to do, or
you
find
however,
must,
be mischievous
will get to
" If
only we had any one to teach us," said the
"
light elves,
we
for
little
people."
inquiringly
silly
who nodded
"
Then he turned
elves.
little
head
his
to
good-naturedly,
f and
it
Niord,
and
said,
then he strode
city
and
down upon
sat
the
mountain's
edge.
awhile
After
alarming
wild
he
now
dropped
ticing
it
his
and
voice a
like
little,
bird-like
in
retreating;
lower
whistle
spirit's
in
louder,
now
advancing,
became a
music,
began to whistle
louder
manner,
gusts,
until
he
call;
and
most
strong
then
lower,
and
far
away
THE &S1R.
from
sweet as
the
Then
their
their
the
wonderfully
beautiful
nearer and
itself,
clear
fair
arms
answer came,
fluttering
sounds dropped
through
floating,
little
invitation
two
the
until
the south
57
sky
twined
into
two
came
forms
brother and
round
nearer
one another.
sister
one another,
by the wind.
"My
son and
the
to
surrounding
Summer and
When
to
structor I
Niord,
proudly,
and
Freyja,
"Frey
hill
by the hand, led him graceof the throne, and said, "Look
his son
the foot
here, dear
^Esir,
said
Frey and
Niord took
fully
daughter,"
brother Lord,
what a
fair
young
little
in-
elves."
know
what his accomplishments were, and what he considered himself competent to teach.
"I
am
the
genius
of
clouds
and
sunshine,"
58
"I
am
me
teach them
how
the blossoms, to
fruit,
of the flowers,
wheat,
burst
can
to set
to lead
to
to
if
to
make
the single
and
ear a stalk
teach the
ones to sing
all this,
will teach
of
little
said Frey,
them."
is
well;" and
Frey
THE &SIR.
59
PART IH
NIFLHEIM.
Now,
In the city of
the ^Esir
and day,
How
this
wicked
he came amongst
the subject,
said,
to
after
that,
earth,
discover
it
many wanderings
had been
the
like the
his misfortune,
half-burnt
heart of a
" since
when," continued he, "I became
woman;
60
As
was too
this
fearful
make
Loki,
city,
amongst
Now,
place.
run-
fearful
to
have thought
it
as Loki to find
nevertheless,
they
lived
so
impossible
in her
any pleasure
it
together
long
own wicked
hearts,
and
and
each
the abundance of
up
bringing
of mankind.
her,
making
time,
companionship:
their
and misery
just
what
their
a monstrous
gand,
The
serpent;
wife
half
queen.
looked at their
When
fearful
eldest
the
third
was Jormun-
second
Fcnrir.
Loki and
his
witch-
THE
within
they
go back to Asgard
So
here."
cannot
they
see,"
Odin
for
little
as
bravely,
set forth
But
all
said
and
salute
had no
secret
while,
if
his wife
good-morn-
ing,
if
lest
old Father
and
"But
see?"
Loki; "and,
will
"What would
themselves,
could
on the road
to
in-doors,
Asgard
his
out
let his
tail
across
the road;
At
first it
but he
exposure to the
air,
hung only a
grew,
Whether
Jormungand grew!
I
it
little
Oh, how
and
early next
do not know;
at that
were
said Odin,
taking
their
"it is quite
to
the
to shoot out
sight
of him, when,
fearfully
but, in a single
morning began
way
large,
morning
clear,
this vigilant
walk.
Frigga,
that
'"Now,*
I must
6a
up
So
of me."
gates
tread
to
ing
pierce
monstrous
In
descending
saying,
Odin went
Air Throne,
to
in
forth of
through
Asgard's golden
common men,
of
the earth
from
instantly
and
Jotunheim,
fight-
slay
its
sins.
his
them with
spired
them by
teach
and
toil
his
in
own
war and
grief;
experience,
large
in-
his
Even
his example.
much; and
pleasure,
the evening,
when
the labours
see
the
noble
as
the
upon
rays
he
giant
Jotunheim,
them
long
of his
ago,
and
explained to
round
was
pleasant to
told
of
it
sturdy village
chief,
green,
village
for
that
them on every
great
then
pointing
ihem how
giants
side,
and
and
with
fight
that
the
towards
fight
was
monsters grew
they,
too,
might
THE
do
battle
the
earth.
One
bravely,
be
and JEsir
heroes
of
words they
smithy,
and
JESIR.
all
trooped
and armour,
in their use.
children; I
instructing
together
to
the
all
night arms
them
for
village
In the morning he
"Farewell,
said,
me when
am
gone,
nor
how
Never cease to be
Then
their
field-labour,
and
Odin
pressed
homes and
on, through
trackless
a grey sea
There,
fog,
sat
hidden.
me
to
him
boldly,
64
"Truly,
treasure
that
you
"it
a great
is
seek,
the price
Then
hand
replied
wisdom
for
would
"I
Odin,
my
give
right
willingly."
"it
is
not your right hand, but your right eye you must
give."
sorry
when he heard
deem
inward
of
in
a draught of
return
felt
as
if
light; for
which you
he knew what
it
his
may be
were
him
a
an
sure he never
perishable
was necessary
the horn
there
in
and casting
fountain
the words
eye.
for
him
Now,
to
do
into
Niflhcim.
Attr-thc singular of
/ICsir.
Odin knew
THE
it
was
ice-bound
seas,
onward
right
that
precisely
that he did.
twilight,
fog,
in
and
over
snow,
were
that
like
and
sobs,
drifting
and a
sad,
up and down.
"I
fully,
and
sighs,
little
further
on Niflheim must
pushed on
Accordingly he
until
he reached the
lying
down and
ness;
but,
days,
his
stems.
roots
after
eye
further
Odin imagined
that
it
Yggdrasil
on
was
its last
one
fibres,
At
earth-tree,
poisonous diseases.
whose
Jotunheim, from
the
the oldest of
and
mighty
Yggdrasil's
the old
three,
its
out of
time-worn,
cold peak,
three nights
of
Niflheim.
knotted
this,
further
above, and
and
was Niflheim.
It
there
hanging
fell
creation,
lie."
all
serpent,
and
his
Then he wondered
66
and wandered
a home.
pale,
ills;
naked,
whilst
trond, Yggdrasil,
and saw
far
all
below
arose
and without
into the
shapeless,
name-
its
him,
nameless,
abyss of abysses,
less
Nastrond, the
often
on
his road
not always
to us
thus
weeping
true that
he sighed
is
it
THE
PART
IV.
WHEN,
at length,
giants
frost
of
giants,
three-headed
he
kind
every
mountain
giants,
and wolf-headed
in the land of
walked
straight
came
he
the
all
his
he
and
the
the
deep
until,
until
time,
lay
and
growing
threw
There
ocean.
encircling
tail
monster,
the
neither
still,
Odin
earth,
his
binding
nor
any
as
him headlong
Jormungand
whole
fearfully
he
throat,
himself
one
else
still
found
after
he
Then
seized
was
without
on,
he
into
grew,
that
which
together;
has
been
68
move him
able to
disposed
of
Midgard
Serpent,
thence.
henceforth
Jormungand,
on
went
he
wicked Witch-mother
other
stood
strange
At Fenrir and
great
pale as
most
Hela,
on
wolf-son,
of
terrible
and
of
Loki's
be sent away.
savagely
Hela each
at
ice,
of
joyfully
eyes,
when he looked
of
ferocious
house
the
and on the
called
the
to
Loki's wife.
thus
but
glittering;
giant
became
as
moved
again
he looked on
fearless
and
unchilled.
and
your
cruel
arms
kill
what
they
embrace.
kingdom;
not
where
the
sun
shines,
and
is
men
THE
breathe the free
69
down below
but
air,
spirits
in
infinite
cast-off
that
downward, to
of abysses, where
abyss
made
Niflheim,
for herself
she
a home
and
deep.
After
this,
Odin desired
promising that
and exchanged
if
Fenrir to follow
his
ferocity for
courage, he should
So Fenrir
him,
followed,
sister
had been.
of
sky
hills,
in
tenderly
their
glittering
arms.
Heimdall,
guardian
of the
tremulous
air,
bridge
Heimdall was a
tall,
tree Yggdrasil
it
all
worlds.
Now, Odin had never been introduced to Heimhad never even seen him before; but he
dall
not
did
On
account
struck
the contrary,
quested
addressing;
what
a few questions.
education
his
who
refrain
he
First,
re-
the pleasure
of
his
been; and
had
not
could
that
much
being altogether
appearance, he
his
by
by without speaking on
him
pass
how
thirdly,
and
occu-
pation.
a
of
My name
Bifrost,
Born
is
"and
the son
in the beginning of
of
nine sisters
time, at
the
am
I.
boundaries
perfect,
bird.
as well
sea.
I
My
training,
moreover, was so
sleep
than
by night as by day;
my
horn
me
Giallar,
and
I for
ever
THE
guard the tremulous bridge-head against monsters,
and dwarfs."
gravely,
" Is
it
also forbidden to
Must you
guard
"Assuredly
^Esir
not,"
them ?"
HeimdalL
answered
tread
to
free
the
it,
for
Urda
perpetual
Nornir
above the
glitter,
and
by
those
dwell
will
summit
arch's
fountain springs;
its
rises,
its
three
and
sacred
"All
trembling,
do well
know
falls,
waters
mysterious,
to
that
in
the
mighty
"Enough,
morrow we
Heimdall,"
will
come.*
answered
Odin.
"To-
73
PART
BIFROST, URDA,
V.
much
who pondered
Thus
pondering
cended Asgard's
his
heard.
over the
"
Bifrost,
and
Hill,
he
wondering
walked
went,
as-
and Asyniur
Odin
still
sat
were assembled at
down
then,
their
the
yEsir
evening meal
Goddcs*d.
THE &SIR.
boar, Saehrimnir, which
great
silence if Fenrir
and
the ^Esir
all
in order to see
Fenrir,
cluded
the lovely
what was
the ill-mannered
that
life
perfect
she was,
as
which caused
little,
the matter.
at
in
nose in at the
his
beauty
her whole
in
they
and screamed a
to start
concluded
genius of
She,
of
doorway, just
for
questions,
his
been
have
eaten,
one thought
It is
would
Freyja.
No
disturbing
supper
every evening
again.
"I
he,
will
my
adventures to the
assembled ^Esir."
"That
is
all
very
of
feeding
let
well,
me
yon
ask,
is
hideous
to undertake
and
the
unmannerly
animal ?"
"That
will
I,
joyfully,"
cried
Tyr,
who
liked
74
hall,
and jumped up
him
at
sniffed,
in
manner.
^Esir-like
up
again,
He
them of everything
told
done, and
strange
suffered; and,
and
hills,
Norns.
who
white Van,
spoke of
The
spoke to
them,
sat
and
and
very
were
seen,
and
of Heimdall, that
the
upon
Bifrost,
were
^Esir
had
that he
at last,
heavenly
Urda, and
silent
deeply
whilst
and
the
Odin
strangcl)
my
threads of time!
Let us go,
next
back
day,
as
the
should
journey
be
to
wait
until
Bifrost
and
in
all
single
again
could
easily
accomplished
morning.
THE &SIR.
75
made
sea-coast,
Niord
which he had
his
out of his
wide,
he
mouth,
breezy
puffings
made
their
felt
glitter
sorry
was glad
see
to
He
sakes.
to
little
them;
thought
it
Looking
far
stretching
How
out
Heimdall were
his
them
he himself
On
the top
meditations he had
do,
Heimdall
white
long,
Ah!
to
the
^Esir,
hands to welcome
this
is
Niord's doing.
for
Niord and
related.
it is
and
Sir,"
as
their
for
already!" said
do you
"How
far
dull alone.
felt
how many
be
As
for
"Come
hills
least,
would be so good
first
But Heimdall
at
glad,
the
continued
she, "in
up here!" remarked
feeling that
"You
it
would
76
guardian of
such a bridge."
And
in
truth
Trembling and
ground.
the sky,
up
down
top of
ingly;
"At the
that
upward,
it
mountain to
the
wonder-
ALsir,
at their surprise.
point," said
arch's highest
"rises
swung across
Bifrost!" exclaimed
"Bifrost!
it
the
glittering
from the
Do
it
say "such a
well
might
Frigga
he, pointing
which
fountain of
to-day?"
cried
all
the JEsir in
breath.
spoke.
bridge's
golden gate."
all
till
same
time sad
and
his
he found the
fitted
right
cheerful,
like
the
dripping
The
Heimdall
aid
"I
laid
am
his
hand upon
very sorry,
Trier's shoulder,
Thor;
but
it
him,
and
cannot be
THE
You must go
helped.
another way;
that
to
77
for
if
would tremble
it
JESIR.
or take
fire
in
pieces
from the
beneath
friction
heavy,
Bifrost, either
your weight,
and
Urd, and
Sacred
time,
which
Ermt, through
you
will
wade
you can
to
assuredly reach
the
it
in
and deep."
At the words of Heimdall Thor
the bridge's
to
fell
back from
"Am
things,"
After
said
all,
he,
"just
because I
I will
am
so
strong?
Norns to me,
the
go back to Asgard
again."
what
it
is
we
that
can
It is yonder,
it
much
lie
Think
are
again,
going
to
beseech you,
see
and
hear.
matter,
Thor,
Neither
go.
whether
we
reach
HEROES OF ASGARD.
TfJE
78
the Fountain
Urd
of
cloud."
Then
Thor blushed
with
shame
at
and,
back,
he
more
any
the dreadful
into
plunged
He
him.
the ALsir
was
went on
hidden
their
hanging
river-clouds,
him
or
grumbling
own
his
his strength;
from
and
co-
and
sight,
glittering
bridge.
they swung
it;
summit on a
for
waiting
already
them,
knocked
at the
drenched
Then,
door of the
in.
did
to
they see!
through
them
Yggdrasil's
air,
fairest
and weary,
they
together,
bright cloud;
it
infinite
height
above
branches,
leafy
far
and
it
of
and wide;
tinguish
its
there
Looking up
purple
all
pale,
the
Thor was
dis-
almost seemed
THE M&IR.
to
them
that,
earth-tree
so
tall
the
it
On
grew.
Noras, which
was so
fountain plashed
Two
the clouds.
fount,
describe
them
mighty,
they
Sitting
upon
water as
it
from one
with
busy
were
and
some
for
she
fell,
some
she
cruelly-
tore
spoiled.
her,
and
and
then
rolled
Oblivion, which
it
grew
all
veiled.
the
them
plucked
hand,
care-
and
blemished,
smoothed
many
was
watched
quickly, almost
They were
reluctant
Skuld's
and out
in
the
shall I
from
fingers
they
Verdandi
another.
Doomstead,
fall-
side
this
swam under
and one
wilful,
the
of
almost
rising,
on
Ah! how
sat Three.
it
it
cool waters
its
rose
to
bright
it,
ancient swans
and around
and
firmly
that
ing, glittering,
mighty
Urda
so
root,
this
its
torn,
rough
places,
gaping holes;
round
thicker
her
and
the
too,
great
roller,
heavier
every
moment
from
ing
whence
Skuld
the end
Urd
and
Skuld,
no one could
so
from
Verdandi draw-
drew
her
see.
separate
threads
bright
of them,
but
Verdandi;
reach
to
ever
sisters
The
great
^Esir stood
They
sight
apart watching,
and
looked
face
in
the
it
was a
of
Urd,
Verdandi,
and
the
through
glanced
hope.
At
silently,
one by
re-crossed
length,
the
drank
bitter
of
veil
with
full
strength;
Skuld,
and
they
tasted
away
and
stood
more
once
by
then
as
they
they went
home
went; but
ever afterwards
again.
Nobody spoke
it
was an understood
Doomstead
THE &SIR.
PART VL
ODMBCfc
Now
by
upon a day
it
happened
and
that
Dwarf
Home
Odin
in the evening
sat silent
he mounted
Allfather could
his
also, the
On
this evening,
and
behold,
is
that an answering
luminous, golden,
swam
large,
"
Fialar
killed
theirs ?
it
was not a
it
More
last
at
"
No;
repent?"
it
Kvasir, were
precious
was Kvasir's
it
still,
blood
Odin knew
tear;
of the honey-
thoughtless
Odin,
"
"
into it
is
it;
will die
is its
and the
it,
the light,
"
will
name
life
be
and
spilt,
it
little,
The Father
said
three,"
Odhaerir
drink
will
It
wonder
but
mischief-schemers,
just
of Hosts
little
sucked
another,
ness,
smacking
up
falling
backwards
if
the
air
with
asleep;
of their golden
into
leaping
as
skim
the
first
it,
with
shut
tearing
at
sweet-
grinning horribly,
strange
eyes
the
gestures;
some
earth
of
and
THE
the
of
stones
wild beasts
homes
cavern
their
others,
like
words.
It
in
little
while,
one
clenched
until
at
near,
led
they
seized
their
earth
it
into the
listened,
the
open-mouthed,
and marched
Fialar
and Galar,
to
ways,
that
weapons
caps,
star,
cavernous
and behold,
last
on by
their
fists,
cocked
a coloured
that
in
each
alit
warlike
straight
Manheim,
lay
with
fashion,
up through
and
across
Frozen Land.
new and
intricate ques-
rushed heedlessly on
Gilling,
of
who was
Ifing-
till
bank
taking a nap upon the green
Ifing
looks
lazy
stream;
one can
84
hardly see at
and
flows,
flows
that neither
deep
sight that
first
quietly,
it
flows at
unceasingly,
all
and
It
is,
"
Open
said
shall
it
once
roll
so
is
which
and of
it
run
all time,
no
that stream
how deep
it
Throughout
On
but
able to fathom it
Gilling asleep;
knew
that
they
knew
they could
if
"I have
and,
feel
"
killed
little
It all
said,
JEsii might
and
to
afraid of them.
sticks
their
and
thousand
stones,
little
swords and
stream.
Allfather's
how
silly
the
begin
say,
spears,
until
the
dwarfs
piercing
eye saw
it
into the
all,
and
THE
jESlR.
afterwards,
"It
is
away
day
over
instead
we
mane sheds
whose
humankind,
of dew;
will
dance
light
him and
before
do every morning.
the midst of
in
But,
ground
they
if
spell
grew
between
fallen
in great fury to
dreadfully
they had
avenge his
frightened;
to
all
father's death.
Giant
Gilling
They
asleep
that
they were not the same dwarfs
seemed half an
them
the
whom
giant
Then
had
folly,
shake under
to
upon began
sky.
ing, whispering.
were
their gleeful
them,
their
stood
all
hour
easily
ago
let
and
so
it
Suttung carry
86
upon
then
we
be drowned," they
shall
and the
once,
seamews
screeched as well.
and
seamews'
sat
nests,
Suttung
on
the
and poked
high
will
back
rocks
birds,
by the
sips
Then
the dwarfs
in fact
little
said
the
"The
sky
are
is
to
listen
going out,
different
At
still
last
stars
talked
all
intoxicated
the
"Drowned, drowned,
be drowned."
were
the
and paddled
to
over
and
rock,
lonely
nests
their
from
strode
you
" But
screeched at
all
started
shore
there
rock,
and Skinfaxi
is
to
them.
"and
the
coming, and
86.
THE &SIR.
hoarse are the voices of the Seaking's daughters;
why do we
but
away
getting
all
sit
chattering
we might
as
easily
here instead of
do
if
little
we
did but
"Yes,
yes,
we
give
people, "shall
we promise
fire
we
build
him a
make him
to
"How
should
Our swords
nor ships
laces
he
is
mead
Bah
stride across
giant loves
life,
he drinks blood,
Then
give
lives
who can
all
him
the
our
gold
mead,
"Let us
wondrous
our
drink,
jars."
and the
"The
He
he
said,
" are to
gg
satiate
was
for
bling
mankind
Manheim
alike ?
the
in the trem-
Svartheim, and
"
became Terror
that he
it
Height
that time
that
and
dwarfs.
"Does
it
taste
blood of a
Tut,
tut,
and
tut I"
life,
and
love," said
answered
Suttung.
well?"
God and
fire,
little
dells as
he
them ashore
a magnet
it
down
rose,
like needles to
Then
dwarfs at a grasp
like the
all
and
and
the
wrists
just as the
The
Peace-offer,
the
Peace-kiss.
Spirit-mover,
Suttung
lifted
the
the
lids,
jars.
" It
THE MSIR.
doesn't look much," he said
know
make a
it ;
but
all, I
don't
take the
I'll
my
to
will
"and, after
home
jars
89
in
morning
scene.
It
Jotunheim
letters
trees, writing
men
see
it
cold.
it
well
upon
it
the
Odin read
and
this is dark.
captive
life-tear
Suttung's
in
huge
omin-
For
behold,
halls?"
frozen
in
the
let
dark land, as
him
in,
him
mead
keep, to guard
well,
it
life-givis
mead be
door opened to
it
it,
"This
becomes dark
his treasure,
trembled,
better than
Odin;
made
Home
enough as he
to his daughter
and
Gunnlod
the heart of
cold.
to
Manheim
9o
north and south and east and west, over the whole
world.
"Come
he
to me,"
there.
for in
said,
It
seemed as
moment
if
they came
earth,
Every even-
MI
fear
me
for
Hugin,
Lest he
dim hour
failed to
come
in
of Hosts the history of the day that was past, and the
that
was to come.
terrible that
On
this evening,
Then
filled
said Odin,
his
ears,
Throne, "Night
and he had
is
.-Esir."
cadence had
descended
after
end.
and sweet
note, profounder
when cadence
its
from Air
new counsels;
who
is
let
able to give
THE &SIR.
But when the jewelled horse ran up along the sky,
from whence his mane shed
world,
when
and
giants
light
giantesses,
when
his
horn in
he
" which
said,
is
must come up
god-gift,
Go
and he
Hugin, go
forth,
also
went
to
forth,
forth alone,
for
through night
Odin came
in Giant
itself,
into a
Land.
it
as
he
rivers,
and
happened
that
mead
slaves were
mowing
in the
faster
Odin
"You seem
to the thralls;
their
heavy-
to
explain to
rusty
and old
Upon
Odin
this
offered to
whet
them
with.
them
became so sharp
to sharpen
ing him
me
Give it to
to give his whetstone to them.
"
cried one and
give it to me give it to me 1
:
another
and
all
the time
it
catching
as
Could catch
it
it,
in
looking
down
thralls lying
that;
as the
dead
Was
next?
happened
amongst
air,
if
and
they
"This
fell,
killed
at his feet,
down on
Allfather
He
could
but
whetstone
Odin, as he looked
am
the
their hands.
sharpened weapons.
quietly
in
what
at
Then
fell
their scythes
surprised
Odin stood
whetstone up
throwing his
them,
with
have cut
is
he saw
all
by each
other's
the
"
and
So he journeyed on
till
THE &S1R.
him a
night's lodging,
who
he was
" This
in.
to talk to
this
traveller was,
hay harvest," he
is
said,
" as
you
and
do
I have
a mighty
field to
it
and well
gather
my
this
summer
"
and
I can't imagine,
days
I don't
give me,
they managed
me
puts
mind undertaking
"A
to
"What
you will"
Baugi, eagerly.
dead
How
last
long in Jotunheim."
" I'm not a bad hand
at mowing,
don't
and
it
to
whom
all fell
morning,
in,
nine slaves
is
his daughter
for
thirsty
"
mower
Gunnlod keeps
isn't
may
that?" inquired
which
how
but
so
good as
for him."
"
and
Oh
my homebrewed
So Odin worked
it.
for
It is
Baugi the
when
94
reaped,
"We
come
" and
Baugi,
my
god and
the
"
it
yourself, brother,"
pleaded Baugi,
if
although
man
whilst this
months
is
it,
well does
my
by
all
Have
it
from dwarfs
it
shall
be guarded
that nothing
beer.
to
more was
to
be
said,
at once,
easily.
"You
promised
me
THE
JSSIR.
95
can see
sit
it
its
day
night,
was
it
asleep,
sat
till
down
asleep,
the rock
too."
" and I
said,
in
it;
and
at
steadily
in the heart
"
by
silence:
Of a well-assumed form I
For few things
And
then
ground the
and put
it
fail
will
make good
use
the wise."
little,
on and crept
noiselessly into
the
hole
said
Odin
" The
giant's
The
giant's
as
to Gunnlod's room,
Odin took
his proper
form again.
96
"I
see her
he said as he
seat,"
leave
And Odin
maiden
so
turned
to
"How
he
that
without
Asgard
Alas
than ever
so
must
I
shall
she
an
Evil
much,
possible.
possible
"For
Land."
lay,
a giant-maid
sorry.
not weep,
been
and
Surprised
see
to
surprised
for
since
in
would
have
mead had
the
that
was
less
had seen
her.
Gunnlod,
Allfather
re-
it
and trembled, she did not know why, she did not
know
at
first
that
it
summer
undid
Odhaerir,
then,
and
the
bars
and bolts
and
coverings of
before
Odin
said,
and
sky,
faithfully
stretched
"Drink,
for I
till
her
think
THE
and through
its
Why
are
you weeping
do you weep?
in rushing,
Oh
Gunnlod ?
so,
still.
Why
"your
treasure,
peace
The
is
for
dwarfs sold
ever
it
the
for their
lost it
it
"It
"It
is
Odin's booty,
is
it
to share
far up,
now
left
in
alone; she
^Esir
the
Asa spread
of Suttung,
sits
is left
too.
!
eagle's
How
her light
towards his
is
she
is
is
gone out
and the
it,
halls
which she
for
it is
diately, in haste
is
flew
on toward Asgard,
98
walls to watch
And
his approach.
The pursuing
first.
his
city,
eagle
mead
his
and very
swift, in
pursuit
The
upon Odin.
Frost
giants
deeps
to see.
"Does Odin
" or
they asked,
will
return
"
was
It
The Divine
upon
Hall
his
earth.
Odin's
" It
gift.
is
spilt
Poetry
It
is
herself,
it
is
it
it
for
is
his
men."
common
Odin's booty,
it
is
changing voices;
and
the
him such a
"And
for
million ringing,
THE
sufficient wit to
And
this
Asgard
In
JZSIR.
make a
was the
first
gg
right use of
it,"
said Loki.
arrangement of
tales,
The
blood,
and
made
sweet mixture
to
given
as
the giant
we have
jars,
out of
Suttung
seen, Odhserir.
Kvasir's
to
It
Odhserir,
called
portion
in
Odhserir
Songs,
the
is
and
mentioned
in
the
it
it
was kept
it
as
the second
in the third
called,
in three
a whole was
jar
jar
was also
"Bohn."
Younger
in
keep, was
up
Edda an account
to Asgard.
is
Neither
in
connection
supposed
of the
spirit
to
"Sohn"
means
feeling.
Odhaerir,
reconciliation,
or
;oo
"Bohn" means
of peace,
two
these
the acceptance
names
latter
who was
referring
to
Simrock
thinks
tation, implies
that Odin,
that
and
labour,
that
his
receiving
Odin drinking
crown of love*
it
as the gift
Odin appears
for
have
to
he
is
Potent songs
And
felt
made
learned,
Word by word
I sought out words,
Fact by fact
Very
graved,
large characters,
it is
intoxi-
to say
a draught obtained
Runes
and
it
from
it
THE &SIR.
One
of
Edda songs
the
by Suttung's mead.
is
worth
like.
places
called
So we may conclude
One's Lay."
are
is
I0 i
quoting,
The
it
One
or two of the
just
show what
to
from
is
to
Beer
after
"Cattle
it
it is
drunk,"
die,
Kindred
die,
know one
That never
thing
dies
And
lost
Rich
my way
thought myself
is
a contrast
"Two
are adversaries;
The tongue
is
"High
strophes
the
lay
different
another.
be praised,
the
was inspired
102
MA
firmer friend
No man
Than
ever gets
great sagacity."
*A
requiters
longest friends.*
worse provision
can carry
No man
Than
too
So, good
Beer
My
much
is not,
beer-bibbing
as
it is
said.
garments
in
field
I gave
away
To two wooden men
When
Much
too early
came
to
But too
many
places
late to others |
We
often read of
times in animal,
more
Odin
the
moment"
frequently in
human
form.
He
THE &SIR.
wanders about the world, and very curious
are told about his adventures.
his wife's leave before setting
stories
Sometimes he asks
off,
An
And
all- wise
giant to visit,"
Frigg answers,
" In
safety
In safety return
shalt
the
when he wanted
world,
messengers
he
whom
to
had,
he sent out
daily,
fields
I fear
me
over
for
their flight
j
Hugin
the
Ravens
104
Lest he
for
"
Munin.
fail first
into Niflheim,
The god
an old song.
'
know
On
is
that I
made
is
thus alluded to
to say,
hung
a wind-rocked tree
Nine whole
nights.
Downward
I peered,
The
fell
next strophe
In
German
"
origin.
it,
A man/'
this
myth,
it
seems as
if
Odin
tale
connection with
thence."
how he
tells
little
down
it
" in
danger of falling into a
rested
predicament,
gnawing
at
on
he
a small piece
saw
of grass.
two mice
(day
and
In
this
night)
THE &SIR.
,05
Then a dragon
an elephant reached
whilst
occupied with
on, but
may
tree."
is
honey
like
Simrock says
people being
goes
to
little
do
We
over
We
Air.
all
even
him here on
his
the deep,
to
wisdom
in
see
giving his
Heaven
means the
some suppose
setting of the
that
Sun
Mimer
eye to
the
nightly.
eye,
pledged
eye
Mimer, who
for
one Sun
origin
An odd
story
is
told of
by the
the Vanir,
Odin.
who
it
to
back to
106
it
on
all
important occasions;
"Odin
speaks
rest")
He
is
represented in one
which
great
is
god indeed.
father of
The
this
Upon
Jarls.
The way
in
is
very curious.
manure
turf."
The
linen, to
fields,
eyes,
Jarls,
make
carts
"Light of
hair,
bright
cheeks,
eyes
THE
piercing as a serpent's,"
jESIR.
grow up
to brandish spears,
Horses to
ridefc
Dogs to slip,
Swords
to draw,
Swimming
to practise.*
and
Surtur,
who
will ride
horn
giants, but at
frost
is
crescent
lives
over
it
and
shatter
this
mentioned,
moon, and
Later,
moon was
is
Heimdall's
to pieces.
supposed
to
drinking
when
mean
horn
the
also
is
Mimer's
crescent
it
One
horn.
this
called Irmin
Huntsman, the
of Heimdall's
The
or Irmin's way,
which
is
also
called
is
Waldemar's
a common
way
name
in
of
hunters.
Loki and
108
or both.
it
is
said
universal
all
things."
are
much
alike.
Wolf," and of
with
revengeful,
Hela had
originally
of a
perhaps
it is
is
Thor.
to Odin,
most
of.
stories
service.
TO JOTUNHEIM.
CHAPTER
Io <,
IL
JOTUNHEIM.
PART L
FROM ASGARD TO UTGARD.
ONCE on a
time,
in
white goats.
chariot,
it
It
by two
They
milk-
iron
Asgard, and
it,
out
set
startled
the
ladies
liked
of
in
HO
was a poor,
and
to
determined
pass
the
night
his chariot,
The
there.
himself and
obliged to
for
up
make
kill
supper.
his
every one
own two
He
invited
feast
feast
them
his wife
"Do
not,
made one
request of them.
on any account," he
said,
"break or
" I wonder
why," said the peasant's son,
to his
sister
Roska.
Thialfi,
reason,
marrow
in
my
would be such a
"it
pity to
lose the
marrow;
1*
r.s
slyly
and
he
in it
be placed.
all
XI1
goats'
skins,
Thialfi
was
command,
As soon
as
Asa Thor
rose in
the morning he
he said
the
curiously on,
last
whisper-
floor,
it
saw two
up and walk
leg,
it.
little
with his
he would run
far,
far
into
and never
the forest,
Asa Thor's
He
his
mind
do than running
thought of a better thing to
1 12
He came
away.
Asa's
himself
threw
at
the
feet,
for
pardon
forward,
disobedience.
his
Thor
away from
listened,
and
his face.
with
me on my
lesson
will
take you
of obedience
to the JEsir
which
is,
see,
wanted."
Roska chose
that
to
faithful
servants,
who
fol-
The
chariot
left
behind
but,
with
sea,
and
Jotunheim,
tains
great
moun-
torn
and rugged
mist,
and once
for a
tangled forest
rocks,
which
often,
through the
very
tired,
JI3
hall,
itself,
"
They
it.
hall,
and
to
be
perfectly
five smaller
fully,
empty ; there
it
care-
their appearance,
and
lay
down
to
sleep.
and
and
it
seemed
as
if
there
and
a
Thor
though he looked
By-
earnestly into
the
but,
starlit
forest,
Loki
Thialfi, after
sheltered
chamber
to
the
right,
where
they
rest in safety
thought they could finish their night's
114
but
all
As soon
night
into
the
forest,
as the day
and
there,
whose
nostrils
the trees
wonder
to
any
Thor
walked up to
fearlessly
this
strange
him ; but
monster
sound of
at the
an immense
height,
"Who
and
are
you?"
stretching his
neck to look up ;
on
" and
tiptoe,
why do
"My
name
is
Skrymir,"
Thor of Asgard
done with
my
said the
You
giant sternly;
are the
little
Asa
glove ?
"
ii?.
nS
TO JOTUNHEIM.
more
than
Thialfi
had
room
glove, the
his
Thor rubbed
be dreaming.
his
eyes,
and
felt
as
if
he must
on
fixed
always
the
changing,
should know,
heim
you
to
"
and,
my
Try
And
he
face,
which
said,
"It
Skrymir, that I
and conquer
fight
are,
to try
giant's
little
as
you
is
seemed
be
am come
such
to
evil
think me, I
to
Jotun-
giants
am
as
ready
it,
at his head.
"Ah Ah
to
threw
it
The
with
giant put
think," he said,
my
up
his
hand
to his forehead.
"I
head."
third
the heaviest
Il6
that ever
fell
but
this
"There
"
who
has
is
let
surely
a bird on that
a feather
on
fall
my
he
tree,"
said,
face."
When
into
he had gone a
immense
his
a path that
little
face appearing
uncouthly-shaped
stone
on
toppling
mountain
precipice.
"
Ving-Thor,"
of good advice
Utgard don't
me
tall
* he
"
said,
let
before I
go.
make much
of yourself.
me give you
When you
little
taller still
mannikin.
Jotunheim."
" Mannikin or
not, that
Asa Thor
after the
*
Ving-Thor
get
You
to see
to
think
;
and
Turn back
satisfied
to have
by your journey
will I
giant
a piece
to
"We
will
Winged-Thor.
meet
again,
will
we
II?
other."
The
baek to answer,
some time
his
after him,
companions,
resumed
after
looking
Before
their journey.
for
came
they
on a vast barren
plain,
city,
Thor had
to
bend
head quite
his
When
far
back to
The
his
city
still.
easily,
streets
They walked on
and
of the
for
at length
of which the
they came to a very high building,
gates stood open.
is
going on here,"
an immense banqueting
hall.
table stretched
1 1
round the
table,
it
sat
giant,
and
grim,
cold,
among them
sat
and
than
stony
on a raised
the
rest.
One
and appeared
seat,
to
The
rising,
is,
in
a somewhat careless
out
asking
that
little
you,
fellow,
down
sit
some wonderful
followers are
to
manner,
"It
to
it
table
for,
with-
Asa Thor.
are
is
he
till
has
performed
feat, let
famed
know
and
in
sit
down
in the
had
entered
com-
pany of giants."
At
hall
this
speech,
cautiously
Loki,
who
behind Thor,
pushed
the
himself for-
ward.
a The
feat for
which
am most
famed," he said
and
eating,
it
TO JOTUNHEIM.
one which
is
and
before me,
can despatch
"The
it
let
me
see
Put food
as quickly as I can."
is
one by no means
to
here
who would be
summoned
At
this,
and a
in
one
is
yours.
" be
now
just
will.
good
19
if
you speak of
feat
am
to the hall."
tall,
thin, yellow-faced
trough of meat
large
middle of the
the
hall,
man
approached,
having been
Loki
to
sat
placed
work
at
hope
ate;
but
eyes
to watch
met
as
if
up
all
all
them, and
quantity; but,
into,
giants
it
when
in
a few minutes
It
they
seemed, at
the thing
came
Then
to
had,
in
first,
the
shall
be examined
indeed,
eaten
that
Loki wai
120
conquered.
you
"You
the
King
Then he
the whole
whom
I shall
company
left
match you."
came out
to
noble race-ground.
Thialfi
and Hugi
which hears
Hugi ran so
much
"Try
alfi,
and
met
fixed,
course
with
feet
his
scarcely
he swoops on
the
place,
touching
flew
along
the
the
ground
but with
all
running he was
goal
"You
are
certainly
King; "but
better
little
it.
still
more
to
than this;
the
said
good runner,"
you mean
if
The
still
121
far
from the
at
each
starting-
point
The
giants
again
looked
other,
trial,
for
was conquered.
turn,
by what
and
wonderful
feat
he
and
all
the
company
chose
to
distinguish
himsel
"I
Thor
will
said,
try
shortly; for, to
tell
pany
in
which he found
himself.
22
the hall,
he ordered one of
in his
drinking-cup, called
which
it
at
was
if
draught,
"cup of penance,"
make his guests drain
the
custom to
his
had
they
servants to bring
his
broken
any
the
of
"There!" he
drunk
call it well
if
Thor looked
thirsty
he put
work of
He
pull
full
it
single
the cup;
into
it
to his lips,
it,
and empty
drank,
but the
and being
all,
it
was now
be moved without
could
it
it;
appeared to him
it
at
it
in three."
short
"we
a person empties
long,
to Thor,
draught
but,
it
handing
said,
just
so
danger
of
spilling.
" Ha
for
in.
and
ha
You
are keeping
I
see,"
failed; but,
with
all
his
said
might
little
your strength
Utgard,
lifted
all
looking
till
his
breath
"you
Utgard,
Ving-Thor;
in other feats,
we
last
time.
it,"
23
said
yourself a very
Look
to yourself,
much
of you
At
speech Thor
this
felt
when he looked
but,
into
contents
had
Wearied
disappeared.
and
its
disap-
no more
"It
is
to
empty
pretty
it
said
plain,*'
the
King,
looking
is
by no
"
feat,
"I
Nay," said Thor,
am
shall
choose what
it
shall
be."
"Well,"
said
the
"there
King,
it
to
play.
is
a game
at
short time
124
I
in
am
curious
see
to
how he
merely to
It is
it.
a childish amusement
As he spoke a
and
hall,
under
Thor,
to
it
my
lift
it
ground
truly."
large,
up.
his
hand
tried gently at
first;
forward,
stooping
lift
acquit himself
will
He
put
but
"It
is
as
just
way from
little
the ground.
thought," said
there
anger ?
who
is
that
laid
me," cried
you
think
will
truth,"
Thor,
me
"who
in
my
said
the
King,
"I
don't
think
with you;
in
are will-
"In
there
all
fellow."
"Little as
is
King Utgard,
"but we
old
but,
if
wrestle
crone
Elli.
you
She
man
must,
has,
in
will
her
call
time,
TO JOTUNHEIM.
She was
crone came.
old,
I25
and
withered,
toothless,
She
Thor
he tottered and
At
this
Utgard
sight
No
over.
up,
laughed
the
desired
and proclaimed
one of
feeling of weak-
the giants
all
struggled long.
fell
coming
They
a strange
his followers
at length
before' her.
and
aloud,
woman
old
to
He
down
as
sit
at the table,
his
guests.
perplexed
and
mortified,
accepted
his
invitation
behaviour
courteously, and showed, by his agreeable
during the evening, that
he
knew how
to
bear
city,
the
his
companions
126
for
Giant
first
time,
steadily
farewell, perceived,
was
he
that
the
same
very
with
Skrymir
him
to bid
the
in
forest
said
the
giant
with
me
truly,
you
how you
go,
journey has
think your
turned
out,
and
whether
saying
that
you
would
or not I
meet
was
with
in
right
men
better
"I
confess freely,"
me
for
will
know
be said that
that in
am
"that
it
grieves
Jotunheim henceforward
man
of
little
it
worth."
"
really
it,
All
are;
will,
this
and
for
time
enchantments.
now
once,
I
mighty
that
tell
man
you are
the
truth
of valour you
safely
to
out
in
of
yon, Thor.
the
my
forest,
Miolnir
crushed
had
not
hammer
the
on
and
fell,
ravines,
which
valleys.
In
weight
which
where
you
manner
same
the
have
of
your
blows
become
I
Loki,
indeed,
is
eat
sat
like
down
verdant
deceived
last
of mortal
my
but
itself;
Logi
runners;
but
slender
the
Hugi,
lad,
So
it
When you
trials.
The
how
feat
far
come
you
its
waters
to the shore
have
little
and when
much
you
night
hunger
his?
deep
fire,
was
your
three
When
between
strokes of
cleft
henceforth
shall
should
a mountain
the
137
head,
placed
skilfully
my
at
by
TO JOTUNHE1M.
fallen
you
away,
ocean,
will
and
see
how
your draught
Hereafter,
will
call
men
it
128
of Thor.
you to be a
to
second
in the
you displayed
cat,
What appeared
trial.
the
was, in reality,
you succeed
in
moving
it
Midgard
When we
we trembled
lest the
saw
very
your strength.
is
be, one
whom
We
must now
here
again,
ray
city;
for
she
and never
will
Elli,
part,
or
attempt
for
of having
shall
further
anything
always defend
it
against
fresh
by
At
these words
"
Thor
raised
but,
before
city,
that
he
sight;
could
and,
he found that
and was
Miolnir,
fresh
speak,
turning
it,
he was standing
too,
of
trial
Utgarda
round
had
alone
to
dis-
on
" What a
fool I
alou'i.
t2 g
giant
told
of travelling."
Thor turned
see
quickly round
Skrymir behind
every side,
he
could
him;
but,
perceive
again,
after
thinking
looking
nothing,
but
to
on
that
plain.
PART
IL
THOR
turned
on the
There
dominions.
he found
to
listen
At a
and to
look.
all
It
Old
^Egir the
wide
Thor stood
distance
little
that
was a
fair
sight:
still
cave
JEgir's
at the
daughters
as
board on
the
soft
fair-haired
they waited
on
water
waves
their
and
little
TO JOTUNHE1M.
131
up from
"Good
how
and
has
said,
it
fared
little
cloudy at
this question,
"Not
as
it
Then
"In my dominions,"
all
round,
"And
" an
the
itself
looking
shores
of
Jotunheim,"
answered
away
as
if
mile,
in."
"Is that
a
-5gir,
drawing
it
King
"From
^Egir,
said
tall
all
say, father?
"said
Then
home ?
Listen."
132
all
waves
raised
their
From a
listening.
arched
way
great
and were
necks,
off
still,
of a sullen swell.
"Who
" That
"And
" He
is
is
what does he
say,
Thor?"
"Pass round
who saw
that
But alas!
before
it
the
it
-^Egir,
^Egir's mead-kettle
was so
small, that
table
stood
it
"There
is
giant
called
Tyr,
"who
lives far
ward
at the
end of heaven."
The
JEsir
"He
is
all
Hymir,"
remarked
looked up.
mead enough
which would
certainly
hold
"we
company."
it
who would go
kettle ?
to the
TO JOTUNHEIM.
his belt of
iron gloves,
"What!
off
again
power ;
I33
and began
to
he put on
his
in his hand.
to Giant-land,
Ving-Thor?"
cried ^Egir.
"Didn't you
" I am
Thor.
say you
going to borrow
Tyr sprang up
on
started
Hymir's
cavern
it
of
Hymir
for you.
Will you
at
their
joyfully,
and
journey.
dwelling,
which
the two
When
was
they
arrived
roughly-hewn
sea,
brothers
the
giantess
first
with
was
it
all
impossible to
whether she
As Thor and
as
them on
giant's
home
was
Her golden
this,
quite as
She greeted
hair
fell
thick
come home.
rest until
on, however,
husband
that
my
here
when he comes
will
be angry
if
he sees strangers
Take my
in.
advice, now,
Asa
Thor and Asa Tyr, and hide behind one of these pillars
My
in the rock.
times,
"We
not
are
some-
accustomed
to
come
when
could wish."
hide
ourselves,"
remarked Thor.
"But you
shall
forth
call
you,"
So
the
^Esir
they heard
sea,
she
heavy footsteps
desired.
far off,
By-and-bye
The
distant
burst
angrily
in
did as
icebergs
He
the chase,
"hard-frozen
his
wood
and
resounded,
had
his
at
cavern,
last
and
been unsuccessful
hands were
stalked
that
frost-bitten,
Hymir
day
and a
HOW
As soon
I35
as the fair-browed
hand
in
and
his,
guests;
then,
him of the
told
she
and
entreated
him
to receive
entertain
them
hospitably.
the strangers
hidden,
asunder,
fell
supported
kindly,
one glance of
the
JEsir were
and
the
cross-
ground.
ing
it
but, at
place where
beam which
of the
arrival
all
to atoms.
of the
Thor
fell
to
relish,
ox, prepared
"You
eat
supper
great
still
until
deal,"
said
Hymir,
sulkily,
he had eaten
two
entire
oxen.
36
Then
said
"Another
Hymir,
Ving-Thor,
night,
for
can't
prepared to go out
place
his
in
next
the
early
On
boat
their
Hymir
morning,
and
fishing,
Thor a
offered
to
way
the
shore
said
Thor
" Have
you provided a
bait for
me ? "
to the giant
"You
Hymir,
must
one
get
for
yourself,"
answered
surlily.
off the
head of one
Hymir;
for,
in
truth,
the
ox
which
to
"
belonged was an enormous animal, called
it
had
Heaven
Breaking."
As they
fast,
and beg
go no
further.
TO JOTUNHEIM.
I37
" where I
always catch the
"But
want to go further
said,
finest whales."
out
to
said
sea,"
Thor.
"That
" for
Hymir ;
to the waters
"
be
will
dangerous,
we row any
if
baited his
Hymir
last
and
come
he stopped,
his
fiercely,
ox's head,
great
he opened wide
sooner did he
At
on.
shall
lies."
we
further
said
Ving-Thor,
feel
and plunged so
wildly,
that
but no
line;
struggled
so
Thor's hands
on
feet
Still
pulling
burst
slippery
monster's
At
mountain-high
head
the waves,
and
that
his
beneath.
rocks
his
wondrous
such
through
lose
then,
indeed,
last
the
venomous
was hauled
it
above
was a dreadful
strength,
casting
and the
serpent
forth
poisoned
fiery
power of
looks
upon
glaring
his god-like
on
the
serpent,
him,
and
spitting
venom.
he beheld
beneath
his
At
in sunder.
after
line
Then
his
to sink
it
in the wildness of
last,
it
all
thrndered through
shrank; even the
but
the
wound
vengeance in his
Ill
at ease
in his head,
and smothered
heart.
and
silent,
to go
every
and everything
fresh
sight
else,
on
of Thor
for
he had shown
his
shoulders.
increased
he could not
so
little
the
Now,
giant's
bear to think
courage
before
his
I3g
so
through the
his
in
by wading home
feet
sea,
When
temper.
his
home,
got
they
improve
therefore,
together,
taunting Thor.
"No
"
he
yourself
not
catch
fine
you
did
you
though
fisher,
can
but
to-day;
anything
think
"you
said,
you,
do you
think?"
Thor
upright stone.
in
pieces,
greater
sitting
But,
and
strength,
pillars in the
Now,
and dashed
it
rock
unbroken.
the
cup
he
hurled
it
was
still
at
standing.
her
shatterd
with
Again,
the cup
against
the
without a crack.
wheel
From
against an
stone was
the
spinning
Thor was
lo
it
beautiful
just
woman was
behind
where
and
broken,
singing
the woman's
voice
fell
on
his
car,
4o
Hard
giant's bone.
pillars fall
the cup,
and cried
unhurt,
out of
can
but
Thor;
my
you carry
that
at last, Vingkettle
mile-deep
tried to
Tyr
this
"Well done
out,
and hurled
all."
lift
it,
raise the
handle.
effort
he
the rings
it
by the
lifted it;
he placed
kettle,
and
After journeying a
rim, and, as
floor.
it
on
and so
he did
With a mighty
his head, while
in
triumph he
little
way he chanced
that a host of
to look
many-headed
HOW
i 4I
three times
it
among
the giants.
In an
instant
they stood
stiff,
and
arm
raised;
some
out;
position
another with
upright,
he
had
his
one with
head stretched
last
assumed.
and
cold,
And
in the
there
still
and,
still
tell
"Pass round
the
foaming
cried
mead,"
^Egir, as
and
time
this
it
happened
that there
King
the table
was enough
Thor, as his
his
name
implies,
is
said to
mean
its windings.
forty eke, has Bilskirnir with
Of all
the
142
His
hammer,
know
my
is
"To
Miolnir,
names
"
signify
intervals"
thunder
To
shower,
all
help
to
and
the
him
picture
to
opposition
Hrimthursar, frost-giants,
enchantments, and
combat
this
also, in the
the
like
whole
the
the
in
fog-
sterile
and
portions
The
and warrior ;
principle
Thor appears
physical world,
of
tribe
mountain-giants,
of
falling
in
larger sense of
the
whose
race at
swift
of nature, in
grind,"
his goats,
"
"
attendant Thialfi,
his
or
pound,
his victories
was unceasing
his life
warfare.
In the
the
Edda account
whom
giant-king
Utgard-Z0&'/
Loki, who,
we
and
is
it
to Logi
who
in
there
be
to
Utgard opposed
this
he finds
own
is
is
observed
root in
also
fire,
fire,
called
that
is
in
so that in
This
may be
explained as
HOWTHOR WENT
TO JOTUNHEIM.
I43
follows.
reminds
us
of
the
chaotic,
regions,
elementary
and
powers.
human world
of
in
its
evil aspect
him appears
elementary
opposed to the
latter
fire
the destructive
Connected with
(Logi),
and Loki
this
myth
evil in the
world
viz.,
its
had
fire
originally
during
visit
there,
for
Thor
is
crept.
first
Thor
a deity of the
out
is
it
was
built up.
How
naturally
ideas
concerning
out-
must be confessed
that
144
we saw
northern warriors.
recover
stories
it,
In particular, there
disguised as
"Loud laughed,"
the giant
hammer
his
craft
in his grasp
the giant,
sister,"
first
an aged
a story
the
felt
is
to Jotunheim to
When
Freyja.
race.
traits
again,
it
we could have
for-
is said,
stroke,"
and
hammer
the giant's
beneath the
is
vengeful
sister,
as
if
the aged,
she could
now
to
HOWTHOR WENT
Thors,
TO JOTUNHEIM.
remorselessly stricken
battle has
From
after
the real
bright children,
mighty."
down
145
we
turn to Njord's
FRRY.
CHAPTER HL
FREY.
PART L
ON TIPTOE
IN AIR THRONE.
elves,
of
whom
like,
and the
of
it
hi Alfheim.
Wherever' Frey
sunshine.
steps,
Flowers
came
there
sprang
and bright-winged
up
was
summer and
under
his
foot-
148
on the
the fruit
colour
the
to
trees,
and
corn,
purple
When
he rode along
in
stately boar,
Golden
him,
filling
half-closed
forest,
and
burst
and
field,
and spreading
fragrance,
Frey
is
into
hill,
the
to
drawn by the
his car,
Bristles, soft
" Van
bloom
and vineyards.
"
coming
beauty,
perfect
flushed
and every
and
richest
their
Under
little light
all
Frey's
care
instruction
them.
them
was the
the
promised to teach
possible sight to
see
and
It
prettiest
among
the
deftly
or to drop
them
tips
the
into
When
this
round
pretty
running about
the
and
their
summer-king,
like
bees
to
of
halflast
cluster
about
the
when he
time
or of the old
giants,
lived
in
But
midst of
the
in
help often
senger and
things,"
he
in
his
friend
say,
mes-
clear-minded
his
Skirnir.
to
this
talking
used
all
"and
travelled
through
would
say; and
it
sit
on Air Throne,"
seemed
to
Frey that
this
At
length,
Odin was
one very
clear
summer
evening,
when
Alfheim,
asleep,
and,
climbed into
where
all
without
the
asking
little
any
elves
were
one's
He
fast
advice,
tiptoe in
It
was a
and
clear evening,
you what
tell
Frey saw.
He
looked
all
first
up
birds,
still
lingered,
glanced
rested,
round
hills
where
Bitrost
At length he turned
fallen
but
see distinct
still
Strange
higher,
on
after
them.
In
tall
this position
house standing on a
and
lifted
door.
up her arms
It
maiden
dazzling
he could
was
dusk
lifted
reflection
up
came
at
it
a maiden came
undo the
to
in
just descry a
hill
While he looked
Jotunheim.
this
tiptoe,
Jotunheim
her
white
from
latch of the
;
but
arms,
them,
that
when
such
Jotun-
PREY*
heim, and the sky, and
with clear light
be
the
distinctly
face
of
door
earth,
and
seen;
but
Frey
saw
all
151
uplifted
had
after
her,
and
darkness
fell
sky,
and
sea,
darkness
fell,
Fre/s heart
but
nothing
arms;
shut
again
too,
on
upon
152
PART
THE
THE
with
their
GIFT.
morning, when
next
up
IL
the
dawn,
surprised to
his
see that he
little
elves
awoke
and
receive
to
king
the
they were
commands,
had changed
since
they
saw him.
last
" He has
grown up in the night," they whispered
And
in truth
and playfellow
he was no longer so
for the
merry
little
fit
a teacher
people as he had
was
to
no purpose
his
opened, when
chamber.
bright
Frey
white
came
light
forth
still
FREY.
I53
him
to
at.
over,
no
there were
stories for
"Be
still,"
'If you
will
be
said,
still
to
enough
Frey
thing; but
seemed
it
Frey
that
birds,
that
to
day
in
one
singing
heard
any-
flowers,
and
elves
rivers, united
song, which
he never
wearied of hearing.
"We
in the
whom
whole world so
you saw
"Frey
elves
"but there
said
has
to
fair
surprised;
nothing
last night in
in
dew-drops
Jotunheim."
eyes," the
his
little
is
only
to
men and
felt
very
much
the ^Esir
is
it
had
come over
good-natured father,
the
Niord,
summer king,
sent
Skirnir
and
one
his
day
154
cause of
the
into
Prey's
sorrow.
He
his
tell
trouble to
When
"And now
asking
me
you
be merry as
to
story,
there
is
used to be
he
said,
no use
for
in
how
summer and
I
sunshine, while
is
love,
in
living
my
dark,
dear Gerd,
cold
land,
whom
among
cruel giants?"
"If she be
you
say,"
as beautiful
really
answered
Skirnir,
of place in Jotunheim.
to be your
wife,
"That would
Frey;
and
"but
if
Why
live
and beloved as
only too
gladly do,"
answered
for
to
take
my
place;
would be undone
men,
who
are
in
all
toiling
the
would
watching
*
Ryme
for
harvest,
PREY.
wake some morning to
, 55
find
their
corn-fields
and
"Well," said
"I am
Skirnir, thoughtfully,
you
me
will give
side,
and
I will
Now,
well
or trust
sword
that
he
of Jotunheim
for
and put
part with
risk
will
the
Gerda again?
moment
to think of
into
Skirnir's
pettishly away,
be many days
all
recompense
"You
and yet
own;
less
it,
He
it
to
to
any
his dear
his
Skirnii
his
giant-father
and he knew
gift,
ought not
expect
from
in
it
he
was
He
by your
that
Frey's
could
dangers
if
to you."
enough
how
but,
come
Frey;
will
Alfheim, to
to
the
neither
hands;
and threw
tree.
in travelling to Jotun-
156
he
heim,"
"and
said,
time I shall
that
all
be
miserable."
worth
answering.
and prepared
Frey,
but, before he
water
that
expression,
in
are
into
full
Skirnir's
took a
hasty
set
on
to
it
off
his
hill,
in
In
spite
beautiful
pool
the
it
picture
up
He
mind.
stooped
hiding
carefully
it
in
woods
down, without
the
of
sorrow-
its
as
see
to
little
of
of
journey
Frey's face
was as
speech
farewell
chanced
the
near.
lay
this
he
left
of
the reflection
ful
He
think
to
his
his
silver
mantle, he
then
he
fastened
drinking-horn,
mounted
stole
his
and,
horse
to
conquer the
giant,
and a matchless
picture
to
FREY.
PART
IIL
FAIREST GERD.
I TOLD
father,
not be
house
the
that
you
difficult for
hero,
and
surrounds
it
will
He
had.
he rode a brave
Gymir, Gerda's
of
to
the
barrier
was
horse;
but^
of murky flame
came over
Jotunheim, a shudder
both.
"Dark
it
is
flame,
will
victorious
take
us
together."
both,
or
we
shall
and
The
return
'58
Then he
him with
cleared
his
patted
his
the
horse's
armed
heel,
barrier,
and
his
hoofs rang
on the
frozen land.
Their
first
day's
whose breath
is
see.
vulture-headed
Monsters
giants,
hid
Skirnir
Then they
passed through
and
and
kills,
his
terrible
face,
to
flew
On
Gymir's house.
round
it
nine times;
no entrance;
for fierce
every door-way.
to
it
near,
was possible
and
for
"Are
already
" that
you
doomed
dead
you
talk
man,"
of
to
death,
answered
seeing
Gymir's
or
the
fair
are
you
herdsman,
daughter,
FREY.
or
a house
entering
I59
no one ever
which
from
returns ?"
"
My
death
sounded
fixed for
is
answer, and
in
his
and
loud
of
Jotunheim.
fair
Gerd as she
voice,
clear
sat
Asa,
misty
air
of
the
chamber with
her
the
her
in
the
through
reached
It
Skirnir,
voice of an
the
ears
maidens.
"What
is
The
hear?
it,
and
all
GynuYs
tremble."
halls
Then one of
and peeped
said;
is
fearlessly letting
it
graze
"Go
and
out
Gerda; "I
said
is
softly,
lest the
mead
giants,
in
must
him
in
stealthily,
hear
again
then,"
him speak;
So the maiden
ing
bring
rose,
grim
the
banquet-hall
with seven
forth.
other
160
and understanding
As soon
to Gerda's chamber.
light
from
as
her face
of a
and
flame
snow
to
visit
our
halls ?"
Then
feet,
Skirnir
and gave
promised
it
as he
had
of Alfheim.
He
and spoke
to speak of
at Gerda's
much
of what he said.
if
there was
things
to
still
no
fairer
use
in
jewel
talking
anything beautiful.
all
fell.
But he
of
beautiful
her
life
Gerda smiled
at
FREY.
I6l
him as a
tale.
At length he grew
maiden," he
childish,
angry.
said,
or
the
darkness shall
then
^Esir,
fall
sorrow
and
and ^Esir
to
live
for
and you
Terrors
Men
be your lot
shall
you; weeping
utter
will wither
be doomed
shall
Giant,
away
Ryme,
a
like
in
thistle
on a house-top."
"Gently," said
head, and
Gerd,
sighing.
make such a
talk
turning
"How am
it,
when
all
my
life
long
At
these
words,
Skirnir
rose as
if
he would
"You must
"in
return for
Skirnir
heard
drink
a cup
of
mead," she
said,
gladly,
for
now he
knew
l6a
He
hand,
turned
from
his
mead,
he contrived
it,
water
the
off
cleverly
to
on
drinking-horn,
he
before
and,
pour
which
re-
the
in
Frey's
the
time
first
and
many
she
had
on
things
never
believe
in
face
like
that
clear
understood
now
became
loved
her,
her
that
to
before.
Skirnir's
fairy tales.
She could
and
^Esirland,
in
beautiful
all
things.
" Go
"and
him
back
to
him
tell
in the
to
take
nine
in
warm wood
After hearing
haste
these
leave,
days
said,
at
will
last,
meet
Barri."
joyful
for
every
lingered
in
One
of
Gerda's maidens
door,
and he mounted
his
words,
Skimir made
moment
that
he
he was in danger.
conducted
him
to
the
FREY.
PART
IV.
WHEN
Skirnir
Gerd's answer
find
that
back
got
to
Frey,
his master
"Nine days!" he
are
and
Alfheim,
he was
told
disappointed
to
bright
nine
to
days?
very
said;
One day
long,
but
is
'nine
and
long,
days'
wait
three
days
as
well
might
be a whole year."
I
tells
them
to wait for a
new
toy.
Freyja
and
all
the
journey to Alfheim,
ladies
of
when they
Asgard
heard
at
it;
made
the
but
a
story,
164
comfort
to
and hear
Frey,
news about
the
all
the wedding.
"Dear
lie
still
here,
under
sighing
sents,
talk
Alfheim
in
At
when
for
all
his
little
Frey
He
it
long;
be;
is
his musings.
at
how
he
could
lift
He
his
up
looked,
the thought;
were
ladies
everything
little."
did
really
frightened
the Asgard
are
You have no
have to be altered a
wedding,
jection?
to
going
wake up from
a
truth,
are
words
these
head, and
in
will
being
how busy we
idea
You
tree.
and
never do to
"it will
but,
work
ready to
but he had
little
to
in
private
a com-
in the business
motion
things
light
days,
The
in Alfheim.
that
elves
any one.
went
nine
the
during
himself;
wanted
were
They
forgot
about
ladies
overlooking,
not
running
indulge
of
all
the
through
found so many
and
the
slightest
their
time,
little
use
usual tasks,
groves
and
to
and
fields,
FJREY.
sedgy banks of
and by the
earth-holes,
and
and empty
snail-shells,
Some
the
stole
and wove
into
it
and
butterflies,
make
All
pulled
all
The
work was
made,
the
from
their
the
wings
when
scarcely finished
the
set
Frey
like
something
came Frey
and
Bristles,
wedding-ring,
Draupnir,
drink
chased
runners
the
which
magic
a wedding
his
in
First
Golden
by
pulled
set with
together,
cession.
to
leaves,
feathers
others
tails,
and bonnet-plumes.
fans
the
glow-worms'
Gerda was to
that
swiftest
with
flower-cups
hoping to find
a necklace, and
the
while
from
light
acorn cups
jewels the
to
into
every one
from cowslip
from;
down
creeping
peering into
rivers,
Gerda.
for
gift
165
chariot,
carrying
none
was
ring
in
of
pro-
drawn
his
hand
other
than
so
many
which
Odin and
gift,
the
Frigga
Ship
followed
Skidbladnir,
which
all
the
66
could
iT
be folded
wards
in
it
carry
and
sit
of
weight
their
not one so
large
and
singing,
and
and
every
wood,
breath
on
when
it
might
was
all
the
seemed
golden
elves,
apples
gift,
under
toiling
took
It
twenty
baby's finger.
warm
summer
over,
if
on
sweet
smiled
earth
and
every one
moon shone
as
sent
flower
Everything
wedding-day of
home, and
it
as
them.
after
the
you
offerings.
little
that
All round
the
small,
fair
and
the heroes
all
after-
a basket on her
two
could
your hand.
Then came
in
so
up
it
though
sail,
the
cold
Vanir
had
gone
the
wood
into
spoke
to
one
another.
"Odin,"
said
one
"
for
"gave
voice,
that
happiness.
while
It
it
" has
may be well
and
his
eye
for
bright
be unarmed
days last;
but
FREY.
when Ragnarok has come, and the sons of Muspell
ride down to the last fight, will not
Frey regret
his
sword?"
its
tusks,
it
Gerda
up the
tearing
and return
typified agriculture
from
its
is
supposed
to
earth,
and woos
The
to his embrace.
arms
is
to
explained
mean
Northern Lights
the
the
to
other.
of
come
Muspell
Frey
shall
at
Ragnarok,"
have to meet
were wrong
if it
"When
it
is
the sons
said,
will
thou, unhappy,
The
have been
ship Skidbladnir was said to
by four dwarfs
to in
a poem quoted
and
"then
Surtur in battle,
before.
Draupnir
it
is
is
made
alluded
not men-
168
Edda
tioned in the
in connection with
Fiey and
Gerda.
their year:
they
One was
time.
the
of
turn
Yule
said
is
celebrated
derived from a
by Laing that
named which
vows to
another
this
"Yule,"
Christian
festival.
of Odin, but
it
is
some
great
enterprise
boar's
before
head
at
in
very nearly
name,
its
about
probably
so
accomplish
new
name
seed
midwinter
in
from
the
to
and
harvest
the
winter
in the
place
our Christmas,
honour of Thor.
is
between
be applied
to
took
coinciding with
came
all
expeditions began
was
to
festival
this
be undertaken.
season warlike
CHAPTER
IV.
THE WANDERINGS OF
FREYJA.
PART L
THE NECKLACE BRISINGAMBN.
Now, though Frey was made king and
master of
part
sister
of
the
elves,
them
with
school-
Alfheim,
his
had a palace
this
light
time
his
and
palace
Sessrymnir
for
built
there
the
was
beautiful
for
face,
one
"Roomy
of them;
her
every
and
named Folkvang.
very
beautiful
Seated "where
In
hall,
Freyja
listen
liked
to
look
at
her
7o
anybody
She
else's.
1
of the sons of the immortals, anr
marry
and used
the
was
Freyja
often
to
off
of
speak
on
little
it
Some
of
this,
Frigga
and
them
said
proud
to
tc
purpose
of
of her,
whilst
not to
be vain
jealous
warned
her
happiness,
lest
on
should
sorrow
account of her
her
overtake
un-
awares.
Everything
for
on
life
the
in
smoothly,
quite
beautiful
and
went
however,
sunshine of
her happiness,
her.
fair
and
sunshiny
from Asgard
hoped
to
time,
Vana, went
young
take
walk
meet somewhere
brother Frey,
and
to
of
in
particular favour.
The
out
alone
Alfheim.
She
thereabouts
this
her dear
occasion for
to
it
ask
a very
was
this;
Heimdall
were
^gir
x7 x
dine
to
expected
at
them.
All
ladies
lords
and
Niord,
too,
the
of a giant
one
"Every
Freyja,
will
"and
be
have
dressed," said
beautifully
not
single
ornament to
wear."
"But you
Freyja,"
more
are
said
any
one,
born
Wind-Home."
in the spacious
"All are
not
so
;
out an ornament of
any
So
saying,
Freyja
Alfheim, determined
brother
somehow
where.
garland
kind
tried
set
off,
to ask
of
to
as
of
flowers
shall
certainly
told
all
you,
to
her good-natured
at
least.
not find
keep
She
than
beautiful
in
But
Frey any-
Alfheim
she
173
what she should wear, and her steps went downward, downward, away from Alfheim to the cavern
of four dwarfs.
"Where am I?"
said
on deeper and
dering
surely this
between the
deeper
rock.
quite
dark
high
"Why,
unpleasant, nor
is
walls,
she
as
Freyja to herself,
is
not
the
sun
it
here, though
not shining."
And
her,
in truth
winding
most
recesses,
it
for, far
on before
in
were groups of
inner-
little
his
hand; and
for
hard,
digging
walls,
and rose-coloured
and hung
coronets,
marvellously glittering.
Four clever
little
of
Freyja,
the cavern,
they sat
and began
to
down
work
in
the
centre
diligently at
of
some-
172.
with strange
felt
chattering
and
i;3
grimaces.
Freyja
it
order
that
lanterns,
to
it
distinguish
go nearer
to
Accordingly, she
clearly.
and
Ohl
peeped
exquisitely worked!
Freyja drew
in
sitting,
brilliant!
bewildering!
back
blinded
almost
with
again
moment a
passionate
own, to wear
round
her
Freyja,
own
"is no
through
"Life to
neck.
longer worth
to wear
Valhalla,
fair
Then
singamen."
rang
in
it
cunningly at
into a
the
vaulted
it
for
her
always
me," said
burst
it
it
out to her,
side,
echoed
it
and
from dwarf
Freyja,
on one
however,
side,
only turned
her head a
little
the cavern
as
There she
the
brilliant
still
tain
that
all
little
exulting heart.
felt
Freyja was
come back
palace of
she
to
cerall
When
apartments,
after
pool that
homewards with an
was not
up
down and
sat
might see
own
Odur
private
alone,
and
be found
in
palace of Folkvang.
every place;
out,
among
She peered
restlessly
the
places of
wistfully,
he was not
hall
in
all
the
she walked
the
but alas
with
about,
"Roomy
sad eyes,
in
in
and
Seated."
the
face
home
175
Odur could
Brisingamen and
But
Freyja did not know this; she did not know why
Odur was gone, nor where he was gone; she only
and
sadly,
there,
watered
her
jewels
with
mourned
in
warm
salt,
tears.
As she
of her
said
thus and
palace,
by on
Some
sat
their
purpose.
raised
all
something about
ment, which sank
the
encouraging, or
passed
Frigga
down
not
turn
^Esir,
at
her.
to
the
and she
all,
saying
and punish-
listen
to
my
him thus
to
weeping,
my
got up
presenting herself
and,
pride,
young Vana
much
severe shake,
and
"Father of
of
last
by
little
beauty,
sorrow-stricken
Asgard passed
and looked
thing,
anything at
of
ladies
to Valhalla,
way
one
said
the
all
the entrance
cruel
and do
frown.
is
Odir
176
me
Let
far
and
near, across
air,
borders of Jotunheim."
And Odin
answered,
"Go,
Freyja,
and
good
Then
chariot,
swift,
city,
softly-rolling
cats,
waved her
PART IL
THE IRON WOOD
LOKI
THE
cats
champed
eager and
air
with
The
noiseless.
and rippled
rivers,
land.
She
came
"But none of
for
ask
Odur,"
for
him
said
at
down from
behind
away
carried
rolled
down
weeping golden
fell
that
clinging steps,
swift,
chariot
and skimmed
alike
A BOUNDLESS WASTE.
her
down
the
its
little
and weeping
beauty
to
greatest
wide
such
to
doors
herself;
as
city
every
wherever
cheeks,
sunshiny
to
in
every
the
streets.
Freyja
into
tears
her pale
in
and
on,
good enough
" I
these."
will
not
17 8
So she went
straight
on
to
king.
"Is Odur
"Is
keeper.
the
Odur,
Immortal,
living
with
the king?"
"Then
many
no one
Freyja
other
in
that great
and
away,
doors,
stately
all
his head,
asking
city
so
knocked
at
Odur; but
for
much
as
knew
there
only,
"No
streets,
it
was
into
the
long,
narrow lanes
the
same;
lived,
every one
said
city,
to
the
and
the
lanes,
side of a lake,
and the
cottages,
far
lay
down
looked
there
where she
By-and-bye the
too,
the
water,
serene
and high;
face,
but the
frail
and
fair.
in
Queen of
Brisingamen
and
reflected
and
ornament,
but
tears;
around
At
the
of her
sight
deep
and
sky
favourite
midst of her
of
instead
moon,
too,
waves.
little
the
Bri-
were
stars
her.
last
her
fair
shape
crept
between
and he began
to
up
down
sat
lying,
head
side of
by the
Freyja slept
she was
which
Loki,
the
for
took
the
as
singamen,
the
the water
in
flashed from
rare colours
its
179
the lake,
bank
the
beside
her,
and
It
was
hands.
its
on
as she slept
"You
were quite
and
out
to
try
right,
get
Svartheim, instead of
husband.
for
It
Freyja,
"he
for
something
staying at
said,
yourself
home
to
"to go
in
with
your
care
more
You
Then
the
singamen
Freyja?
Freyja
Why
then
do you
turned,
he?
Why
do
not
is
you
Bricry,
start so ?"
moaning,
and
tried
to
lift
her
i8o
and
seemed
it
his
in her
clasp without
Then a
and
is
lay.
Loki
me
dragging
her
down,"
little
laugh burst
hand
it
forth
up
shuddering
caverns until
terrible night-
she cried
upon
the
great
came
if
her.
in
dream as
in
Svartheim,
vaulted
the
through
started
up,
and
was
before
gone
to set out
on her journey.
"Brisingamen
farewell to her
is
fair;
After
is
image
but I find
this,
it
Freyja
but there
could
tell
was
fair,"
not
in
she
said,
the lake.
as
bade
she
"Brisingamen
heavy sometimes."
went
to
cities,
everywhere for
asking
one
many
in
all
the
Odur;
world
and
and
at
who
last
Wood, which
X 8i
and whose
to
pull
down
entrance
the
the
to
tall
forest
Jarnvid was
the
an
sat
and
full
giants,
trees,
Iron Witch,
her
with
towards
face
the
In
back
her
Vana
were
Iron
Witch;
foxes,
they
"Eastward," croaked
wolves,
and
bears,
and
birds.
a raven
as
drew
Freyja
near
Eastward
The
in the
Iron
Wood
sit,
vulture-daughters,
who
an-
and screaming
was a horrible
din,
all
at the
same
time.
never
There
to fear that
be heard.
She was
up
to
the old
witch,
so that she
might whisper
in her ear.
182
"I
woman
no time
in
have
waste
to
" and
if I
did,
foolish
answering
questions."
Now, the
witch's
Freyja's heart,
pull
to
"You had
For
time, not
last;
words struck
"there's
this
no use
was
the
Freyja
standing
there crying."
grandmother of strong-minded
Then
in
got
tears.
into
her chariot
again,
and
silence.
not finding
permission
to this place.
haps he
will
"He
from
is
Father
one of the
Odin
to
^Esir,
and
retire
per-
forests,
always in
twilight
ear heard
shape
hope
till
"
And high
grass,
Which was
Vidar was
as
silent
his
^3
sitting
Long
night
long hau:,
Vidar's dwelling."
grass
moss,
and
his
dewdrops
up through
grew
and as
trees
crossed
were covered
glistened
upon
his
beard.
"It
"through
Freyja,
afraid
is
his
these
all
deaf.'
am
But
and
thick
said,
trees?
or
is
broad
west lands?"
if
reflected
"He
through a
wood
herself;
crushed
she
branches.
"Only
Odur here?"
no
nearer
tell
me,
him
through
the
"is
to
for
he had
voice.
Then Freyja
bitterly
last,
for
a long time.
looking
Iron Witch
up,
"is
when one
no
is
"An
better
really
one than
an
trouble;" and
threw back
into her
wmy.
her
chariot,
long
bright hair,
and,
springing
PART
IIL
AT
came
she
last
to
the
HIS DAUGHTERS.
wide
was gloriously
there everything
the
No
wind
stirred
and
sea-coast,
beautiful.
crimson flower.
,85
like
It
was
a broad
the ocean,
but
the
old
breast,
and
sea-king,
the
his ears
drank
himself
on
were laving
his
supported
cool waters
their sweet
murmur;
for
and
their
though
father
^Egir
were
talking
together.
really as gentle
as a child,
old,
Now,
he was
186
been
so
in
was
fond
eagerly
that
she
to
steal
had
he
catch
of a
daughter
wife,
giant,
that,
whenever
call
upon her
dragging
water,
might
the
of fishing
if
kingdom
winds came to
under
his
himself.
Ran, who
called
and
to
left
any
net
who
one
for miles
after
her,
fell
so
over-
board.
the
shore
King was
"What
And
the
"Freyja
happy
is
and as she
his daughters.
wave answered,
in Asgard.
Then
the
first
is
lying,
towards
fair
young Vana,
"
"But she
left
her
fair
Third wave,
" She went down to the cavern of dwarfs."
Fourth wave,
and
there,
carried
it
"Because
Vana
the
had
loved
herself
more
for
Odur
Seventh wave,
never
will
"Freyja
will
be
happy
again,
Eighth wave,
"Odur
never
will
come back
as
long
as the
Ninth wave,
"Odur
never
will
return,
nor
Freyja
forget
to weep."
Freyja
stood
come
still,
spell-bound,
she
back,
wrung
and
listening,
her
Odur would
hands,
and
cried,
"
O, Father ^Egir
up from a wide
sea,
trouble comes,
comes surging
into
my
souL H
!88
And
in truth
seemed as
it
over
was
wave
seen
^gir
rose
higher
shouted,
and
in
and
dashed
little
^Esir
sea
deep
and night
upon
fell
down exhausted
until her
kind daughter,
home
Vana
came and
old
carried her
Siofna,
Ran
distance
the
into
sank
Freyja
wave
louder
spoke
confusion,
Then
storm.
dragging
if
change the
to
return,
Freyja,
as
she
appears
in
the
Edda,
The
extremely obscure
is
of her
story
;
it
is
marriage
all
with
was the
sorts
of
Odur
is
home
(originally,
she
all
of love,
less
is
189
developed
in her.
woman
spoil with
Odin
and leaving
her having
been
at
half,
one time
which
points
to
and sharing
his wife
all
with him.
earth
the
the
golden
leaves
gifts
summer
and
Summer
flies,
Do
tears.
seeks
The
him weeping
these
Odur because
it
it
is
wrapped up
Odin
are
in his nature,
identical
"Every mythology
in
tells
it
to belong
was really
German.
us
of
the
Simrock
death
says,
of the
190
who
mourned by
is
Looked
from
at
or
his
we
point of view,
this
earth vaunting
summerly
wife
his
and decking
of a god,
beloved."
see
the
herself with
moment when
is
earth,
her.
But
life,
is
soulless,
has
become
mortal.
Edda
is
it
The
departure.
wolves
who devoured
Ragnarok, she
is
not mentioned in
Freyja's
tears
some
We
star
shall
lay.
may be
character of Aurora
for
It
the
the
moon
at
myth of
the
now
a dwarfs
the renewing of
life.
IDUNA S APPLES.
CHAPTER
191
V.
IDUNA'S APPLES.
PART L
REFLECTIONS IN THE WATER
OF
all
Asgard
was
the
none so
wife of Bragi,
side of the
called
hill,
the one
as
lived.
It
where Iduna,
there could
older than
it
beautiful
The
colour, as
ever decay,
it
there
beautiful
or
become the
it
was
that grew
least
bit
trees
wore
the hedges
do
in
spring.
The
flowers
ig 2
dew.
Brisk
little
making
of early
till
night
"
"
" Blow
away 1 said the leaves to the wind, for
we
never be tired."
shall
"And
you
And
in answer.
and
never be old,
will
sang,
"Never
tired
among young
flowers.
and tender
birds,
She was so
that
fair
stood
still
in
leaves,
come
the
for the
it
swans to
held
eat,
from a water-lily
Iduna never
to her
nearest
left
it
fit
to live
and spring
it;
winds
the
said
out her
to her, even
water,
afraid
swimming
to
over
neighbour,
and
yet
she did
visit
not
WUNA'S APPLES.
means a
lead by any
the
Bragi,
to
live
he
with; for
said to
to call
and so
it
besides having
a lady; and
fair
It
visit
so beautiful a grove
yet,
Iduna
Iduna
when her
she
her,
innermost
casket,
guests
was
herself
visitors
never
to
had a
of
and
this,
bring
from
out
bower a certain
request,
think
to
of her
would not
aware
recess
and
well
as
of
going away
which,
her
till
they
flattered
her-
better flavour
golden
that
favour,
she
the
fruit
in
the world.
It
would
Asgard to
sides,
have
been
have refused
Iduna
was
not
quite
such
as
far
unlike
courtesy;
wrong
hero
of
and,
be-
about
her
194
as
apples
hostesses
when
are,
generally
they
There
no
is
flavour; and
be
to
or a
it
cross,
or
tired,
that,
into
soon
as
happy as he had
and
vigorous,
and
fresh,
been
ever
them
in
difficulty
casket another
Iduna
it
no
as
surely
could
and
apples,
to
their
daily
them
one or two,
Iduna had no
as
them
Iduna to give
requesting
to fortify
she
had
that
comfort,
till
bower,
he
life.
for
the
as
out
spirits,
eaten
so
happened
of
out
little
when he came
followed
always
his
little
little
doubt her
if
fell
this
she
never
complying with
in
in;
took
an
apple
but where
She
discover.
from
came
it
never
her
from
saw
it
always
made when
heard
it
the
touched
sweet
the
tinkling
golden
rim.
sound
It
it
was
195.
IDUNA'S APPLES.
as
good as play
taking
the
to
apples
come
ones
rosy
195
and watching
out,
tumbling
without
in,
casket,
the
fresh
knowing
One
a time;
for
know
his
it
venture would
When
they had
grove
looked, perhaps, a
if
them.
befall
the
little
Iduna,
telling
of
home
and
green
fair
as
all
farewell
it
was
little solitary.
and
it
and
turned,
little
flashing
grew
tired,
and
fell
circles
back,
in
air
and quivered,
making a hundred
the river;
for
once,
wandered
down
to
still
place,
where the
196
river
side,
and
Iduna
sat
own
Besides her
ing,
into the
fair
deep water.
little,
wander-
water
form
was
reflected
dark,
large,
a head with
past.
up
to
lowering wings,
same head
the
as well as
sky,
had never
same wings
looking
up from the
looked,
from the
pointed claws,
th
till it
It
the
down from
water.
Iduna
while
her
looking at her.
fierce eyes
She
At length a
was above
same eyes
the
blue
Such a
sight
before;
and,
thing waved
its
wings,
was no longer
shook
fell
its
terrible to
wings a number of
it
black feathers
As they neared
the
trees,
like feathers
a head of
its
in fact, a
swarm
of
IDUNA S APPLES.
Nervous Apprehensions;
197
troublesome
little
insects
Iduna ran
off;
found
their
away from
them;
bravely
they are
by no means easy
when, at
last,
dress,
known
feeling
to
them;
but
and
against
to
itself
thrilled
down
there
it
folds
of her
them
she shook
and twisted
strange
way
feeling
never yet
198
PARTH.
THE WINGED-GIANT.
IN
the
They
particular quest
pro-
on any
Hcenir
strayed
hither
and
thither that
on well
in
themselves
and
then
in
they
becoming
halted
Every now
manner.
while
Odin
inspected
the
how
to
observe
share
said
if
the
ploughman guided
might;
soil.
his
the
and
he
turned
away,
plough-
"Well done," he
leaving
all
hit
something
the
nothing
went
never
forge-fire
out,
the
field
full,
yielded
bountifully.
down under a
studied a
valley,
tired
tree,
Hoenir
to
prepare
some
dinner.
"I
will
said
fire,"
Hoenir;
foraging about for what good things you can pick up."
"That
which
is
precisely
"There
Loki.
what I mean
to
with
my
cunning,
fire is
all
the
if I
this
to
tree
burnt up."
stone in his hand,
be
It will
do not contrive
dishes under
said
do,"
strange,
is
this
form he
large
too
Loki watched
window.
under
his opportunity,
the
and when-
"One,
two, three.
there
Why,
fewer every
are
bewildered
cat
I see the
housewife.
end of her
thin
that
on the
tail
thieving
window-sill."
to
throw
at the cat,
cow
"It's
cried
and when
too,
The
pies
raven, with
six
raven was
Loki, the
little
valley,
and changed
a hearty laugh
at
>us
own
cleverness,
and
at
the
of foxes,
who peeped
IDUNAS APPLES.
only one of the ^Esir whose conduct they could
appreciate;
very
from
far
He
done.
well
it
thinking
was
it,
was
"It
well
it
is
mean
he
true/'
be glad to
tricks.
said,
furnish
"that
me
my
with
all
subjects
may
I require, but
whence you
table from
Loki
unwilling as
he was to do anything
He made
obey.
he
was obliged
through
the window,
From
there
that
no
was
need
for
her
at
what
time
of
to
grind
corn,
or
kept her
life;
it,
She
102
reputation
of being
keeper in
the whole
most
the
country-side;
wives.
the
in
ing
black
stains
would
world
from her
not
remove
kitchen table,
the
and
three
as
she
"I
a hundred
should be content;
said,
own
how
but
life
table ?
"
for
he came
Odin's
he said
been
see
"We
spirits.
permission,
sit
will
down
the
farm-
now,
with
to
dinner,"
" for
surely, brother Hcenir, while I have
making
so
back from
many
journeys to and
something
with
that
fro,
fire
that
you
which
old iron
"The
meat
will
be by
this
time
ready,
no
IDUNA'S APPLES.
"
Hcenir.
doubt," said
The
now
-#Lsir
and Hcenir
up
meat
the
he
first
"
it
it
put
when
but
it;
said
in
for
he
fire,
thick
took
out
when
as
Hcenir ;
was
now
of the pot.
lid
Patience,"
it
ox while
wild
has been
the
but
it
the pot."
in
seated
lifted
killed
203
and looked
lid,
precisely the
same
at the meat;
state
as
and even
before.
the
cun-
coming from a
"Give me
my
it
it
said,
spoke.
"and
eyes
Loki,
;
for
while
he saw
that
it
was
no mortal
204
who had
bird
in
eagle
going to
away with
fly
it,
it
The
found that
made a
stick
when Loki
fell; but,
thinking
took up a
his power,
eagle's back.
when Loki,
was
tried to
ringing sound as
draw
it
back, he
it
eagle's
Something
dragging Loki
"It
like
enormous
bulk
Thiassi, the
"it
heim,
is
into
the
it
air,
brought
strongest
to
out
he saw the
the
against
giant in Jotun-
show himself
in
our
presence.
his treachery,
in
up
and then
after.
sky;
fere
mouth;
is
eagle's
its
spread
half - bird
half -human,
his
and
it
behalf;
would ill-become us to
but,
as
the monster
is
inter-
near,
IDUNAS APPLES.
it
be well
will
205
any
While
Odin
the
spoke,
had
creature
winged
risen
eyes
of the
and,
^Esir;
return
their
during
them
to
but,
they were
city,
He
had a
the
crest-fallen
account
further
had
giant,
in
be quite unable
to
of his
adventures
to
at
down
thrown
last,
any
give
than
he
that
air
by the
a
from
great
Odin
looked
but he forbore
steadfastly
to
question him
knew
truth
from
Loki,
and
must follow a
evil-doers as Loki
further:
spoke,
for
he
him as he
at
he
felt
kept
that
meeting
and the
within
some
between
giant Thiassi
his
own
disastrous
two
such
206
and
Loki
of Valhalla,
went alone to
a
bright
still,
moved
each
to
water,
head
feasting
stole
visit
Iduna
her grove.
in
The
evening.
of
leaves
It
the
was
trees
softly
nodded
all
telling stories
other;
the
sleepily
to
and Iduna
in
resting
with
flowers,
own
their
sat
one
by the
hand,
half-shut
fountain,
thinking
eyes,
in
the
with
her
reflections
of pleasant
flings.
"It
am
is
afl
very
such pleasant
lives.
It
me
does not do
"but
thought Loki;
well,"
long shadow
on the
Iduna
water
only
kindly; for
he
the
much
Loki, she
heart"
and made
approached,
in the
any good,
my
start
disturbed her so
she saw
as
for
live
sight
that
had
looked
up
and
smiled
said Loki
IDUNAS APPLES.
"and
abruptly,
me
to refresh
by Iduna's
my
after
eat
it,
he turned
tently
to
unwilling
warmly, or beginning
and
her
to
air.
he
after
said,
in
her surprise,
it
true then,"
the
at
To
apple.
of thanking her
is
casket stood
side,
with a contemptuous
"It
The
fatigue."
207
looking
in-
"your apples
withered in comparison.
was
now
can
believe
at
it
but
first,
doubt no longer."
"Small
withered I*
Asa
Nay,
hastily.
versed
and
Odin
said
himself,
Iduna,
who
me
assures
has
rising
tra-
that he has
"That
Loki; "for
a
tree, in
grow
never
will
this
said
very afternoon
a grove not
apples so
be
far
beautiful
again,"
I
have discovered
no
one who
trying
to
to
turn
returned
has
away
with
an
indifferent
208
Loki
but
air;
followed
and
her,
new
this
fruit,
her
all
refused to
guests
her
for
began
Bragi
At
gifts.
beauty of
listen
deserting
of the
to
hinting that
she had
that
continued
this
to
new
the
think
grove,
lightly of
" It
is
Come
and the
from Asgard,
fore any one else has seen the apples, you shall
gather them,
no woman
and
ever
shall
have
it
casket,
her
in
and
power to
Now
Iduna
husband never to
the grove,
and
that
she
here,
let
had
she
thought
always
there
been
was
so
no
happy
use
in
so
tiful
fruit,
and
she
full
felt
such a burning
wish
to
ID UNA S APPLES.
1
get
that
for herself,
it
her
hus-
band's commands.
"It
only a
is
Loki
as
and,
no harm
"there can be
once;"
little
in
went
on
to
this
her,
she
hastily,
and
urging
begged him
herself;
out just
going
to
this
other
grove.
the
herself at
Young. At the
stopped a minute to
moment
but
if
the
all
back, Iduna
it
though, at
through,
trees
called
come
pass
her as
to
to
was too
"
!
for
it
seemed
the
grove suddenly
back,
in
Come
the very
The
trees rose
sun, and
they stood;
cheek, and
setting
cast
cold,
made her
night
shiver.
air
blew
on
Iduna's
210
"Let us hasten
she
on,"
to
said
come back
again."
Iduna
up.
he was looking
for
had
she
there, high
seen
the fierce
moment
lower,
head, looking
stood
it
the sharp
For one
at her.
still
lower,
lower,
up
the
in
it
"let
Loki;
shadow
the huge
and,
fell;
were
up
in
round
folded
the
her,
northwards,
air,
towards the
was out of
The presence
him;
release
he
for
and
sight,
of the
had,
by promising
casket into
his
then
giant
in
to
power;
truth,
Loki watched
returned
was
no
to
she
till
Asgard.
wonder
purchased
deliver
but,
grey mist
his
to
own
as he returned
alone
mind.
"If
it
apples have
the
attributes
WUNA'S APPLES.
to
them!
if I
among
should
the rest
from
suffer
the loss!"
among
He
on the ground.
around
fancied
for once,
that,
when he had
gliding
through
dark robes
the
brushwood,
and pale
face
of
he
his
312
PART
IH.
HELA.
WHEN
it
was known
that
he
every
had a
day,
his evil
sorrowful
questions, as
secret fear
that now,
at
that
of wearing
away,
one
face,
else;
stronger
the consequence of
last,
any
became
out.
-dSsir.
faces
many
care,
instead
of the
at each other,
and
all
the others,
and none
liked
very
no
gradually
to speak of it
first
little
change
came on
It
every
and
day,
The
ever
passing
without
leaves of the
trees in
day
colour.
They
glowing
when the
red,
"Let us
tired, tired,
The
became a sombre
at last,
and,
where
the ^Esir
we
tired,
tired,"
are
old;
sat,
all
and
all
it
"We
are
new sound
and
we
"we
are
one by one,
the winds,
to
and
about,
tired."
"We
and
languidly.
green, then
a pale brown;
brisk winds
moved
they
first
the change.
having
nothing
else
to
last strange
anywhere;
do,
went
word they
had learned.
The
there
were
no
stories
and
no songs sung.
2T4
No
day
in
to
a talking humour.
another,
He moved
from one
unwelcome
word
in
Frigga?"
he
an
whispering
ear.
every
"Have you
your mother
noticed
"Do
said to Baldur.
is
printed
"Look
to Frey.
and
lately
Who
"You
to
would think
woman were
faded
that
moaned
the great
halls,
you
the
and
time,
day
that
of
over
man
are old
new
her
in
coming
all
you are
Then they
guest
had
fitness
on
all
going
round
the ^Esir
question
for
sound.
sad
"as they
said,
fair?
are tired
die,"
at your sister
opposite to us.
sit
hair
lines are
on her face?"
Then he turned
them
that
saw,
seated
looked
up
the
first
herself
that
for
There could be no
the score of royalty,
IDVNA'S APPLES.
she held a sceptre;
and
the
the crown
looked
215
and under
fleshless,
face of
the threatening
Hela,
great fear
and
on
fell
all
"Dreadful
voice
Loki!"
of
daughter
to
to
her.
said,
"by
speak
he
your
for
who
^Esir,
to
take
no mates
are
such as you?"
Then Hela
one
by
"White
limbs,
raised her
she
hair,"
dull
eyes
sit
you,
among
you that
my
kingdom."
signs,
are
from
am
as
that
"wrinkled
said,
these
me
finger,
guests
the ^Esir.
by these
tell
bony
the
to
one,
have summoned
to
the
among
and come
reign,
the
the
I
my
and pointed,
round.
sat
faces,
weary
warrants
which
land
of shadows
guests,
and
to
veins.
If
she
had stayed
moment
216
but
when she had spoken thus, she rose and left the
hall, and the sighing winds went out with her.
a long silence, Bragi stood up and
after
Then,
spoke.
"-dEsir,"
he
"We
said,
are to blame.
not
her
yet avenged
Idun
unless
returns,
journey to the
to
neglected
Norns
for
we have
liberty,
they
At
and
where she
fitting
Let
us a
us,
we had
two of us
things
is,
we
for us
we
from the
die;
for
than to
that will
sit
be
here and
of
if
enquire of her
all
till
left
It is plain that,
are lost
fount,
know
need be,
an end more
wither
Urda
visit,
learnt
if
we
away
come over
sit
It
we have
but
Since she
loss.
and we
carried
Bragi's
proposal,
and
decreed
felt
a revival
Odin approved
that
he
and
'S
ing-place of the
set forth;
for
Hela's
had no time to
It
Norns.
visit
APPLES.
showed them
that
they
lose.
absent
Two new
city,
in
Asgard
citizens
had
2i8
PART
IV.
AT
Baldur
length,
and
Bragi
FIRE.
in
It revealed
and declared
who must go
the
words,
mystic
that
with
returned
Loki,
to bring
back Idflna;
was obliged
wings
to
to
his
own
failed
safety
he
and to
set
off
towards
1DUNAS APPLES.
3x9
that
It
was, in reality, a
it
sides
and,
left
lest
her ever to
come out
from
up
perhaps,
the
it
fresh
was
It
safer
was hard
and
air
to
sunshine;
Idun
for
strictly
than
if
forbidden
be shut
and
yet,
she
had
monstrous
sights
that
would
there.
She saw
servants,
her;
nothing
whom
and
but
Thiassi
they,
being
curious to
see a stranger
They were
and,
at
first,
fair,
it
Iduna saw
relieved
fair
and
smiling;
220
faces
horrible.
me
my
to
say
them; "pity
my home and
to
back."
And
but their
however
same smile on
At
Idun
bitterly
length
them, saw,
be
might
the
weeping
then* lips.
Iduna,
more
looking
narrowly
at
backs to her,
their
truth,
hearts,
looked
wept
It
silently.
is
he
used
Something
take
much
the
"
to
very
no
more
at
to
live
among
in trouble.
is
giant
at
dreadful
"to give
will
happen
longer to think of it
me
to
the apples?
you
if
you
Iduna trembled
1DUNAS APPLES.
much
very
"No; "for
to say,
she had
still
knew
she
a2 l
strength
gifts
that
The
by
apples
he put
from
his
force
hand
beneath
if
giant
would
he could;
have
but,
his
fingers,
itself
shrivelled
into
again
little
to
its
white
own
hand
size,
and
touched
this
it,
only when
it
for
So the days
her.
if
swelled
among
the size
taken
whenever
it
of grief
music to
may
it
wild
smile,
was
like
her.
by the
sea,
watching
the
mermaids
floating
up
222
their
were
sad
She
blue eyes.
because
mourning
knew
that
they
no
souls,
and
they had
was better
to
belong to the
Msu
it
than to be a
free
or happy.
still
name
in Freyja's
understand in a
her
free,
It
moment
that
her
set
He
to lose.
in
her
her,
her to
told
conceal
her
was Loki
made
he had come to
its
casket carefully
casket
fastened
among
the
feathers
of
her
breast.
his
wings
once
more, and
flew
The
wings
fluttered
with
fear;
but
she
struck
little
them
IDVNA'S APPLES.
the
air
and
flew
an arrow
like
" This
the
far
gone
"
lies
way
had put on
after
them.
three
flew
call
five
not
the sea,
of the sea-birds.
Thi-
and was
flying
For
and
Loki,
strength.
cried
Asgard,
days and
five
nights
the
were
closer
together,
for
the
giant
was
gaining
city watching.
On
the sixth
"There
been
"The
will
calculating
eagle
who had
will
the
speed
reach
them
at
which
they flew.
get
and
remained
to
fire
to be lighted
tore
up
with
the
what
trees
upon the
strength
from
the
S24
round the
all
The
city.
light of the
fire
fire
showed
her.
down
The
long
to
his
raise
the
and,
effort,
rising
high
in
up
last
for
The
air.
bulk
flames
scorched
and he
he was unable
flight,
enormous
safely at the
fell
sufficiently
his
wings
among
high
in
as
he
the flaming
How
they
spring,
and green
leaves,
again,
and how
made my
story long
if I
say
IdQna
has
a connection
with the
underworld,
IDUNA'S APPLES.
away by a
carried
frozen
regions,
Ash
threatening
is
represented as falling
and Bragi
from her
to bring her
and heaven.
down from
up
again,
and to
ascertain
duration of the
of Spring
the
hints of immortality
Iduna
is
we
may
supposed
corresponds
to
of
appropriate,
and
that
name
the BragarfulL
the
union
Bragi's
is
fill
messages of
its
yearn.
to typify
The
or
heart, even
hope and
world
mean
Yggdrasil's
full
Her
things.
if
this
becoming
tears
all
in his
is
Iduna
meanwhile
earth
story
giant
the
Poetry
we
At
with
must not
calls
to
mind
feasts, in
seems
Spring
the
very
to
mention
old
story of
forget
old times,
it
was the
226
One
to
Odin
for a
vowed over
it
the
fourth
to
Bragi.
Cup
some
to perform
In connection
with
The
is
as follows
When
find the
being,
myth
of
had a very
giant Thiassi
Skadi
we
it
she found
tall
daughter, called
her
that
father
never
armour and
The
set off to
Asgard to revenge
his
death.
heroes,
combat
well,
if,
instead
it
of
fighting
They suggested
them,
she
were
to
to
and
be
not
it
revenge
make up
victim.
all
stand
It
The
enough.
their
minds
was agreed,
in
at
this
might possibly
^Esir,
however, could
who
should
last,
that they
be
the
should
227.
IDUNAS APPLES.
be
could
and
seen,
that
Skadi
should
feet,
feet
their
only
227
pair,
which,
to
all
from
marry Baldur;
the
feet,
after
beautiful
their
privately
so,
shape,
she
god.
feet
from
emerged
the
hiding-place,
was
it
bluff,
dis-
gusty old
was
not
particularly
well
pleased
with
her
as persons
do
shape of their
that
it
feet,
was not at
together.
find
all
where
they should
live.
the
place
other
for
the
reasons,
live happily
home
of noise
in
Noatim, and
the clear,
At
228
to
following song
" Of mountains I am
weary,
Nine nights long and dreary,
All up the misty hill,
The wolf's long howl I heard.
Methought it sounded strangely
Methought it sounded ill
To the song of the swan bird. 1*
And
my
sleep
For the
wild, restless
waves
her.
all skaters.
is
IDUNA'S APPLES.
The next
says "that he
lair
is
story
is
and dazzling
229
about Baldur, of
whom Hai
So
that
all
plants
Sweden
still
is
called
called
brow
'
"
(a plant in
Baldur
is
of
Baldur's eyebrow).
tell
Baldur's
the ^Esir.
BALDUR.
33,
CHAPTER VL
BALDUR,
PART
I,
THE DREAM.
UPON a
summer's
afternoon
it
happened
blink.
valleys,
his
that
men and
ship
still
Throne; a noon-day
stillness
most
sunlit of palaces,
dreamed a dream.
231
Now
dream
the
Baldur was
ot
He
troubled.
carry
his
and
it,
and
heart,
on
fall
It
any one
yet he
pressed
"Lie
said,
there,
Then
but me."
he
and
Frigga,
He
found
kind,
he
that
hall,
seek
closely
rose
up,
splendour of
own mother,
his
tell
her
her crystal
in
to
waiting
might
it
and do not
listen,
saloon,
and ready
calm and
to sympathise;
on
and
his heart,
"What
the
is
lay
down
matter,
dear
Baldur?"
asked
Frigga, gently.
"I
do
not
know, mother,"
in
"Take
my
it
answered
he.
is; but I
"I
have a
heart"
out,
then,
my
and
son,
let
me
look
"But
fear,
mother, that
if
do
it
will covef
3ALDUR.
Then
Frigga laid
her hand
and she
grew
my
beloved son
pale,
as she felt
cried
Oh
Baldur,
shadow of
the
is
her parted
it ;
"
out,
the shadow
of
shadow's shape.
the
feel
233
death 1"
Then
said
"I
Baldur,
die
will
my
bravely,
mother."
But
Frigga
I
for
all;
earth
kill
sworn
me
to
that
on earth
that
she called
all
had power
hill
high
will
air,
at
Then she
lifted
"Swear
to
her
and
First
iron-ore
steel,
and
her right-hand
to
and they
called
neither
who
saying,
will
it
and heavy
into
lead,
went.
die
to her everything
silver,
not
hurt or slay.
to
metals to her;
in
shall
on
has
"You
answered,
will
me
all
all
that
you
swore,
and
stones;
and
234
and
sea-shore,
''Swear that
Then
said,
and they
"Swear
said,
like
that
"We
raised
Frigga
swear,"
and went.
and disappeared.
Baldur,
But
"
And
hand,
After this
Then Frigga
face, saying,
her
will
you
of pain,
"We
to
to
hill,
* Swear:" and
they sighed,
hand
and
away.
saying,
called
Frigga
arm,
Baldurj"
firs
flags
injure
and
not
will
and went.
swore,
they
you
her
raised
Frigga
to her
and swore,
now,
my
smile
over her
spread
in,
story,
he looked even
when he was
told of
BALDUR.
"
Why do
manded
you
look so grave,
still
It
gravely,
my
Frigg, at last
But
*35
is
it
still
there?"
The hands
Baldur,
saddled
and
saw
how
it
Then immediately he
beautiful
arose,
at
eight -footed
his
Sleipnir,
steed,
know
" I
turning to Frigga, said,
of a dead Vala, * Frigg, who, when she was
alive,
could
grave
lies
am
tell
on the
going there to
So
and
saying
the
Asgard,
and
her,
bridle in
his
hand,
down
dashed
into
between rocks.
* Vala
whirlwind
then
and
Eight-footed,
rushed like
happen; her
of Helheim,
side
east
awake
to
a prophetess.
the
mountain
a narrow
of
defile
236
Sleipnir
until
way,
went
on
the
through
There
mouth.
long
the
earth
defile
Odin
rode
opened
her
down a
himself,
as
just
"
Sleipnir
jaws of the
was
My
chained
to
tried
ever,
leapt,
and Odin
then horse
turned
the
and
rock,
himself
the
sprang
at
cleared
rider
toward
the
dog
who
forward,
and
Three times
Garm, as
At
fight
the
through
voracious
still
thrust just
eastward
leap
upon Odin.
and
off,
with
But
already done."
to
the
Garm,
to
fasten
is
journey
was about
pit,
him
to
and
in
fierce
last
as
Sleipnir
same moment;
the
the
dead
entrance,
Vala's
and
grave,
beaten
Garm
stood
baying
in
the
cavern's
mouth.
to
off his
The
servants of
BALDUR.
some new guest
for
making preparations
*37
hanging
Then
in
"What man
upright
"who
dares disturb
Then Odin,
my
the
for
bolt
is
died
heart
Odin's
upon
is
she
this,"
sat
asked,
sleep?"
first
the
time in his
said
life,
his lips,
"And
me?"
asked the
Vala.
"I want
Hela
is
to
know," replied
making
ready
that
"for
Odin,
gilded
whom
couch
in
Helheim?"
"That
my
But Odin
Baldur
for
is
"Now
the
Beloved,"
go away, and
let
answered
me
sleep
"
said,
going to Helheim ?
"
Is Baldur
238
is,"
answered the
Vala.
will
go back;
for
him,"
he
if not,
will
remain in Helheim."
and
"Do
1*
go away,
I cannot
keep
my
me
this
darkness,
it
one
"I'm
so sleepy;
to
"
Only
again,
thing.
seemed
and said
me
as
if
"How
couldst
thou
see
in
darkness?
said,
know
No Vegtam
light
art
thou,
but
Odin, chief of
men."
called
art
became angry
thou,
mother of three
nor
wise woman,
giants,"
but
rather
too,
"No
the
BALDUR.
"
Go, go
her grave;
Loki
have
come."
w
!
"no man
burst
After this
his
239
falling
back in
shall
PART
IL
THE PEACESTEAB.
WHEN
the bridle
from
his
hand, and
father's
him
told
stead
the city.
Now
playground of
trials
These
last
of
skill
sham
one
fights.
law
and
it
field
might be
to play in.
BALDUR.
Odin was too much
Helheim
he
so
of
But
Gladsheim.
that afternoon;
in
his
Hermod where
from
from
his journey
by
the Peacestead
to go to
turned
palace
tired
241
set off
to join them.
When
the
that
shooting
at
of two
To
the
midst,
at
threw
at
stones
with
at
steel,
his
this
and
aiming
him
him
with
some
Thor
prised,
for
circle
between
out what
find
whilst
his
weapons
friends
swords
their
him.
at
others
arrows
pointed
continually
swung
Miolnir
to
what
himself,
must
that
"if
of
looked,
the
in
shot
found
their
Jotunheim be?
as Loki
he
Loki
peeped
to
head.
is
them
and calm,
erect
Some hewed
round
and he
of
his surprise
Peacestead,
standing
something,
was.
in
the
to
^Esir were
shoulders
the
it
he got
sport
if
he became
went
on,
even
"
more
Bat
sur-
242
Arrow* aimed
not hurt
down from
bruises
broad
his
Swords
there.
bright
The
stones
brow, and
fell
left
no
wound
At
Loki
this
grew
perfectly
"And why
and hatred.
honoured," said
he,
shall
into
little,
is
furious
with
Baldur
to
"that even
steel
so
and stone
envy
be
himself
woman, with a
stick
in his hand,
with his
stick.
"Come
Loki
lifted
the latch.
Now when
the hall, a
hobbling
true
little,
up
her crystal
queenliness,
floor,
she
woman, come
got
up
with
me
oft"
that
you have
come from a
great
way
BALDUR.
"That
Loki
answered
indeed,"
have,
243
in
"And
^Esir,"
you
Frigg,
"Just now
saw them
by the
passed
Peacestead,
"What were
"Shooting
they doing ?*
at Baldur."
and
at play."
on her
"And
face.
with a pleased
him?"
hurt
nothing
she said.
"Nothing,"
answered
Loki,
looking
keenly
at
her."
"No,
murmured
nothing,"
still
me
"what
you say ?
Has
looking
all
Frigg,
is
"
little
because I thought
it
was too
young to
244
u Excellent
1"
and then
Loki;
thought
he got
up.
Loki in
rested
quite
his
Frigg,
at
last
woman.
"I'm
said
you?"
and looking up
her hand
out
stretching
are
yet,
now, thank
answered
you,**
and sent a
down
the back
of her neck.
When
changed
went
Loki had
to
straight
" Too
off
young
to
his
the west
and cut
the presence
left
himself back
a large
proper
side
branch,
where
his
knife,
he
got there he
at
their
sport,
talking eagerly,
and
shape,
of Valhal,
Then he opened
Loki's work."
of Frigg, he
standing
round,
When
^Esir
were
still
taking
aim,
and
tired.
BALDUR.
a
tree,
245
silent,
were
most
and Loki
eager;
if
hand upon
put his
"
And why
brave
So
of me."
notice
they
there
face, just
as
"Nobody
takes any
Loki went up to
him, and
his shoulder.
are you
friend?" said
standing here
Why
he.
Hew
at Baldur.
something
that
thought
he
whilst
when
on.
at
all
alone,
my
you throw
don't
or
"I
an impatient gesture
I
my
fights,
because I
"Oh!
know I
is
I've
but
got a
if
sham
blind."
that it?"
lend you
enough,
am
Loki.
said
shouldn't like to be
However,
I'll
" and
that
Loki,
do,
of
left
"Well, I only
out of everything.
you
like;
shall
be
a harmless
happy
to
little
guide
twig
your
246
arm
if
might
you would
take
it
to
like
as
throw
compliment
it,
and Baldur
from
his
twin-
brother."
"Let me
feel
it,"
said
"This way,
this
giving
him the
can, to
Hodur threw
twig.
Baldur
Now,
fell,
you
and
the
shadow of
ALDUR.
PART
IIL
BALDUR DEAD.
ONE
after
the Peace-
left
slain.
One
Asgard
too,
seated
itself
Odin had
all
upon
just
the
come out
Frigga's hall,
of
threshold
to look at
in
and
Gladsheim.
it,
and Frigg
"Loki did
it!
last
Frigg,
upon the
248
"Loki did
within.
felt
they
name
the
it
it!
Loki,
it
filled
first,
"
all
hearts
their
down
lying
when
there
to utter
which
all
Loki!"
Baldur.
Frigga
said
went to
look at
him
"
!
dead, dead.
said Odin, at
dead brother.
and
sea-shore,
laid
upon the
it
had been
his.
Then
see
on
to the funeral.
face, for
that day.
Thought
Frigga
came,
Idun.
his daughters
up
to
mourn around
the dead.
BALDUJK.
and
Frost-giants
349
came crowding
mountain-giants
upon the
Baldur's
fair
young wife;
Nanna came,
an Asa.
funeral of
grief,
After
laid
this
when he and
in
his
the
sea
before
lift
giantess
floating,
holding
they
but
to
it,
heavy they
beckoned
So
nothing.
fire
setting
could
ear;
into
Ringhorn
same time
from
to
the
Jotunheim
and
Miolnir
then,
whilst
the
in
high
Thor stood up
air,
Odin lighted
and
the
funeral
fire
burnt on.
broad
Its
carried
&
it
away.
too,
red
the
the winda
250
PART
IV.
HELHEIM.
WHEN
at last the
so
far to
on
the
sea that
horizon,
ship
it
looked
Frigga
of you,
do," cried
then,
seek
dead, and
Hermod," answered
to us
out
said,
had
lips.
there
my
"Go,
and
"I
red lamp
dull,
round
turned
my
like
Hela,
entreat
and
the
ride
down
stern
"saddle
Frigg,
to
Helheim
mistress
of
the
once more."
in
the twinkling of an
eye,
BALDUR.
251
cavern
Vala's grave
a better one;
the best
found
the dead
to
for,
downward,
it
At
very cold.
last
he came
and
dark
slippery,
slanting,
will,
Hermod
is
prised to
see
the stones,
bridge,
is
paved
Hermod was
but
sur-
as
he
carefully
only tears
tears,
But
brighter.
end of the
when
way seem
the
Hermod reached
the other
and
ages,
had been
to watch the
sitting
woman
there
saying,
"What a
Yesterday
Giallar
noise
you
five troops
Bridge,
make.
of dead
Who
are
men went
it
so
you?
over the
much
as
Hermod, "you
all.
Your
then,
do you
"I
are not a
neither cold
lips are
ride
on the way
to
more
dead man
nor blue.
at
Why,
Helheim?"
"Tell me,
the
way
Abodes of Death."
lies
barred
gates
his
tightened
alighted,
Helheim
of
until
he came to
There
itself.
saddle-girths,
he
remounted,
Then
Hermod
man had
Perhaps
gate
one
by
tremendous
Hermod
mistaken.
life
is
heard so
leap.
much
noise
words,
some newly
not hear
who
flitted
streets,
BALDUR.
Hermod
long since.
2 53
midst.
its
hall,
much
yet
alas!
Baldur,
guests.
on her
left
his pale
sat
the
Hela
at
her right-hand,
told
her.
It
sit
hall
maid
Delay
and Burning
led the
see,"
smiled
she
her
Thirst,
way
to
for
the
of
grimly,
sit
a living
table;
man ;
down,
Slowness,
her wine.
to
Starvation,
her
After sup-
unrest provided
curtains of weariness,
man
and
Hunger was
to.
knife
per Hela
"You
that
down
Hela's
him
sat
wife.
and
so he
young
Hermod coming up
not too
rooms
where
banqueting-hall,
at
entrance-
Hermod was
went on to the
the
threshold,
my
for
guests.
all,
all
"I am
Here
hung with
the walls
254
The whole
Baldur together.
Hermod
room
But Baldur
with tears.
they sat
night
his
and
as he
seemed
could
looked
dim
became
eyes
to
see
light
far off,
to
Hela, and
He
even offered
to
"You
talk
how much
if
earth,
shall
this,
if
and
she
said,
on
on
me
living or dead,
be
weep
true.
if
for
now
Let everything
Baldur and he
Helheim hold
its
own; he
shall
not go."
"
as
he
mounted
entrance of
far
his friends in
to
the
as the gate,
many
and rode
Sleipnir,
city.
Baldur
and began
Asgard, but
of them.
Hermod,
towards
the
Hermod would
not
listen
BALDUR.
"You
"there
So
will so
is
no use
Hermod
255
said,
in sending messages."
darted
homewards,
and
Baldur
way
as he flew along.
"Not
still
he saw the
was to come.
156
PART
V.
WEEPING*
had
more
is
that
delivered
his
"
message.
then
was
tell
Frigga.
She
five
minutes
there
up.
all ?
easy;" and
hill,
tell
the
as
they
"Nothing can
be
hurried
off
to
and
in
eye
in
all
weeping
was
not
already,
tearless
Asgard.
"But
this
is
not
enough,"
said
Odin;
grief
that
it
"the
may
BALDUR.
Then
maidens
messenger
sent them
words on
out
their
the
into
beautiful
lips,
maidens
could
as
went
they
new
and
river of grief,
the
lay
messenger
to
seemed
The
like
to the JEsir as
" Baldur
time
tones
is
dead
a
if
"
!
at first the
back on Asgard
it
first
three
But the
these
dead!"
is
sounds flowed
sad
and
Valkyrior
worlds with
all
"Baldur
dull,
*57
weep
in
the
all
rightly,
men
country round,
labour
left then*
women dropped
the buckets
over
faces
children crowded
the
at
they
the
them with
upon the
corners of
filled
them,
the
doorsteps, or sat
streets,
grass
"Baldur
to
the
and the
is
crying as
if
down
their
dead.
said
The
tears.
empty
wild
dead!" said
" Baldur
fields;
and
field-flowers
the
is
dead!"
straightway
shed
messenger
tears.
maidens
358
to the rocks
" Baldur
began to weep.
is
had
for
lain
tears, so
centuries
" Baldur
senger maidens as
all
hills,
mountain's side.
and
under the
forth
dead
is
"
burst into
from every
they cried
to
the sea,
when
and
to
Jotunheim
across
it,
even
all
and peeped
of the deep.
the
sea monsters
messenger
"
said,
their
"Baldur
is
fish
looked
is
at
to
wept
one
done."
the monsters
tell
and the
maidens
stooped down
it,
might
together, they
Then
another,
the
and
So they twined
waists,
and
set forth
BALDUR.
Now
had
he
after
sent
259
forth
messenger
maidens,
his
his
At
message.
how
he
first
of
watched
the
and
east
steaming
and
west;
tears
rose
but
like
up
"
The
and
great cloud,
said,
"Are you
all
weep-
ing
as
they went
all
down
together
stretching
whilst,
earth's
choked
they answered,
voices
"The
and
falling
back,
streaming
eyes,
came
was
this
to the
chained,
"The
on
they went
and
which
world weeps,"
but just
through the
way
until
they
yawned
over
Niflheim.
their
as
they were
about
by
was so
to
pass
260
who
named Thaukt,
witch
haggard
sat
the
in
to-
Weep, weep
!"
tried to pass
made answer
" What
Live he or die
With
tearless eye^
Old Thaukt
And
a
shall wafl."
with these
yell of triumph.
"Surely that
cry was
"One
the cry
has
not
Loki,
said
"and Helheim
"
of
wept,"
holds
its
stern
wall.
the
said
own."
grim
Queen,
So saying
her
she
long, cold
hand.
Then
the
Valkyrior
turned
and
fled
up
the
BALDUR.
the
city
but
full,
Hodur by a
of
his
life
He
When
year.
like
of Asgard.
Odin's sons
blast
flies
Odin's throne,
After this
in
of
the foot
to
way
steep
2 6j
also, as
it
is
single
blow,
to
trying
new
in
slew the
blind
the
of
rest
shadow of death
in
the
first
At midsummer
sun.
at
midsummer
husband forsook
Freyja's
god begins
to
her,
turn
and
North of
fires
are lighted
evidently
had
Baldur*s death.
its
upon the
origin
Some
in
hills,
the day in
a custom which
a commemoration of
Summer Hod
kills
Hodur
At the turn
of
262
the
day
son
of
in
Winter Vali
Hodur.
giantess,
whose
kills
name
Baldur
kill
Why
it is difficult
to say.
Might
its
being so
the
and
his
seems to be a
first
the
machinations of Loki,
between the
The hero of
the
Helheim, being
first
upon
is
evil
and
Ragnarok
the gods.
Tyr, mentioned in
CHAPTER
263
VII.
THE BINDING OF
FENRIR.
PART L
THE MIGHT OF ASGARD.
of
brought
Loki's
home
forgotten
fierce
wolf-son,
entertained
wholesome, bright
wolfish
air
Odin
he was,
that
All-
the
as
of heroes,
told you
whom
Father
what
fell
from the
lips
his father,
264
place as
his
a dweller
To
lest,
in
his
cruel
it
truly
see
to
loved,
evening
after
strength,
and watching
he should injure
And
to defend themselves.
and one
sight,
two
the
the
Odin
strong-handed,
assigned the
him,
and
brave
Tyr, the
feast
came prowling
food from the one hand
Fenrir
together,
was
to Tyr's
over
that
Asa Odin
in
Valhalla,
rock
in
the
in
when,
tall,
mines
its
on.
but
strength;
so rapidly as to
awaken
stronger and a
The
base.
Time passed
his
wave
^Esir
fear,
slowly,
as his brother
surely,
little fiercer
Jormun-
continually
every day.
265.
mouth and
about
fiery
eye
the
sight
of his
they talked to
and every
265
fierce
each other
event
daily
air
could
only develope
ness and
gone on
cruelty in
with
greater
wolf.
And
if it
wisdom
within,
halla
meal,
face
monster
One
well of
rapidity fierce-
evening,
it
saw more
and
than the
children.
he stood
as
clearly
in
and
All-Father,
satisfied his
on the placid
fell
when
the
having
wolf,
to
his
lair,
he
allowed
to
them the
grow up among
8
evil
and,
them
unnoticed,
he
266
asked
it
coming
way of
became too strong to
their
before
it
over-
with-
stand.
Thor,
always
"One would
in
way
think," he
I,
said,
in
as
Jotunheim
monsters.
Set
the
at
mind
this
The assembled
cloud
my
fear
Before
Fenrir;
not
to-
and,
workmanship, there
from him."
did
of
have forged
will
bind
shall
binder
rest
at
time
be nothing further to
forge mighty
and
conqueror
to
or
never
your
morrow evening
the
but
answer.
to
first
thing
weapons, and
will
the
was no such
that
was
ready,
pass
speech;
away from
Odin's
brow.
will
if
prove a
deeds,
mistake not,
task
too
Son Thor,"
this
binding of
difficult
but he seized
even
for
Miolnir,
and,
All
sounding
strode
steps,
267
the smithy.
to
on the
anvil,
that
slept
the
all
hill
but every
night;
None
of Asgard.
of the
now and
Sometimes
work.
the
into
to
strike
seated
himself
blow
stout
the
among
eyes
fixed
on the glowing
a hero
song,
to
with his
forth
brought
at
his
face
bright
dusky smithy;
permission
Bragi
Frey
his
then
which
the
sometimes
and,
workers,
poured
iron,
blows
ringing
kept time.
made
fire
round
a
presence known.
his
the
evil
All
and
of
the darkness,
in
fiendish,
song,
form
By
Fenrir
at intervals,
the light of
was seen
the
prowling
mocking laugh
filled
Fenrir
evening
watched,
meal,
Thor
and,
at
strode
the
time
of
triumphantly
the
into
2 68
ding,
forged on
another,
The
earth.
and wondered
"It
this,"
is
and
said;
it
from one to
immense
its
length,
and
twisted links.
for
impossible
they
at its
moulding of
at the ponderous
^Esir passed
they
were
loud
in
their
When
his
Fenrir
came
Tyr were
to seize
weapons
in
struggle;
it
readiness,
but,
to
lay
for
their
down
the court
into
receive
to
They held
a
they expected
surprise,
Fenrir
be wound round
thenfierce
quietly
him,
and
two strokes
when
about
to
rested.
bound
forward
each
congratulate
he slowly raised
his
Then,
snapped
if
pon-
rising,
befallen him.
lair,
at
"He who
and,
himself the
And
Dromi."
of
words, he
again
and resumed
by one
half,
self
by
and
it,
on the
first
After
council
among
It
under
its
that
weight;
strength
cost
him very
little
more
second
of ^Esir
in
failure
effort
Odin again
Gladsheim,
than
its fetters.
called
Thor stood
and
was
an opinion.
of the
smithy
this
the
to
Lseding in
fear
it
exceeded
chain
staggered
showed no
the ground,
nights
he carried in
This
these
having uttered
ing."
first
harder
still
Miolnir from
lifted
he was, returned
weary as
the
bondage
stood looking
faces,
other.
to speak.
said,
downcast
with
^Esir,
269
ventured
JSsir,"
he
said,
first
other
"have passed
to
offer
brave sons
their lives
a7
valiantly in
much
and, doubtless,
my
how
how
silent,
learned
little
the
forge
most
part,
fields,
chain
silence
strength
which have
of
that
lies
enough
in
carried
on
forth
the
have
brings
to
regard
that
labour
ever
many
watching,
me
thing
the
that
up the
leads
worthy
One
wondrous
and
grandest birth.
ever
in this
thought
Lords.
and
things,
darkness
in
been
brother
is,
night
day; and,
perhaps,
my
by
dewy
things have
the
for
them
brightly-smiling
not,
I,
to
watching
the
come
have spent
and monsters,
giants
against
fighting
bind
failed
to
Fenrir;
but,
weak.
"In
live
the
caverns
who
my
them; and we
shall,
perhaps,
find
what passes
the
might
271
of Asgard
may be
The
face of
up
time
the
in
council,
returning
and
to
from his
entreated
Alfheim
as Frey spoke,
seat,
he
Frey to
and
broke
lose
no
despatching
PARTH,
THE SECRET OF SVARTHEIM.
IN
the
cloud
of the
spite
was
all
Alf
radiant
that
and peaceful
fair
Queen,
loved her,
and
fluttered
in
made
face.
round
Alfheim.
there
The
her,
Gerda,
perpetual
elves
little
up
keeping
like
the
sharp
ripple of
a brook over
in
low,
among
the trees.
the
Fcnrir;
ringing
but
Frey
hardly
gave
himself
time
of
to
greet
and
his
before
elves
273
summoned
he
the
im-
trust
his
Skirnir
sagacity.
playing
listened,
wont
make known
to do, in order to
that he
possessed
it
"This
that
is
as
but,
depart at once,
Frey
thanked
him, and,
it
to
said,
"from
woo
fairest
Asgard requires
little
it,
liking
on
putting
small
key
him
farewell,
and Skirnir
his journey.
he
though I have
it
me
of
the truth,
to wield.
set out
him
sent
the welfare
Gerd;
for the
for
will
confess
for, to
to every one
possible for
to
Svartheim
to imagine.
is
not
Indeed,
it.
Skirnir,
274
the
direct
opening
The
way.
dim
of
and entered
and
moist,
and
warm,
stands
entrance-gate
mountain-cave.
it
at the
Skirnir
left
keenest
the
required
leading down-
all
As he
met
groups of
clinking
sound of ham-
ear,
and,
looking
round,
men
at
his
little
shining metal
some, with
elfin
work on every
wheelbarrows
fol-
faint
mers
In-
full
saw
he
Some
side.
of lumps
rock
of the
little
caves,
tinued
his
on
his
dancing
away
now he
head
light.
fires,
or working
As he
anvils.
daylight faded
ness, for
hammers on small
with tiny
last
con-
remnant
of
knew
that
to
who
light
carried
him
in
it
his
275
On
lower.
of treasure
to
silently
At length he
dark hiding-places.
in
came
mountain, where
of the
the
he
found
himself in
brilliantly-lighted
the
all
on dark, moonless
lights
Will-o'-the-wisps,
lights,
worms'
carefully
hall,
tails,
the
light
hung up
hi
in
tiers
Corpse-
from
sparks
fire-flies'
round
wings
and
hideous shapes
Hump-backed,
Skirnir's
of
the
eyes
tiny
cunning-eyed,
glowthese,
round the
and revealed to
the
palace.
in
the grotesque
light,
and
around
him.
open-mouthed,
they
beings
than the
rest,
little
seat
276
be a kind
of chief
his
to
him
Skirnir addressed
message.
as these
sheim
one interview
their
and, therefore,
Skirnir
with
came,
with
him
in
Glad-
many uncouth
gesticulations
They asked
to
for
complete
their
and
task,
that
during
time
He
fire,
is
it
with
fuel;
saw
he
it
the
dwarfs,
feed
diamond-makers,
who
whose business
ceaselessly to
and the
He
sights.
fire
it
with
into brilliants;
is
to
pure
fill
veins
the
of
silver
377
makers of salt-mines;
he drank of
tasting mineral
of
their
waters,
silver-roofed
their
strange-
and dwellings
temples
of
solid gold.
put into
size
felt
to
chief
hand a slender
his
imagine what
finger;
Skirnir re-entered
it
it
and when
of the
You can
chain.
was when I
tell
on
rested
that the
you
lightly balanced on
it
the
dwarfs
his
fore-
hand
Skirnir's
it
thistle-
down.
The
Svart
disappointment on Skirnir's
you a
little
you that
in
thing," he
making
it
No
is
the least
said;
world
The
the beards of
yet
fit
for
to
assure
all
the
the purpose.
six things.
"and
we have used up
will
" It seems
face.
noise
women;
It
made by
is
it
fashioned out of
the roots of
stones;
the
spittle
278
of birds.
no stronger chain
will
this to
ever be
made
till
the end
of the world."
Skirnir
now looked
with wonder at
on
his road
meal,
of the
his
chain,
and promised
by the
PART
IIL
HONOUR.
FAR away
frowning
lies,
dark
the
lake,
its
Amsvartnir,
troubled waters,
island of sweet
broom, flaming
lonely
sail,
the
mountains,
burns Lyngvi,
like
surrounded by
isle,
to which
In
this
look
of
licking the
and
now
defiantly.
triumph
savage
now
hand
shaking
The
his
yEsir
that
in
his
cruel
eyes,
great
head,
and
howling
2 8o
and passed
it,
while Fenrii
listened.
it
looked,"
they said ; and Thor and Tyr vied with each other
in their efforts
his
to
break
there
belief that
it;
while
Bragi declared
JEsir
"
or
unless,"
after
looking
faces
be
bound by
doubt
my
this
chain;
but,
lest
and,
and
am
you
the
I
to
should
my mouth
as
pledge
that
no
deceit
is
in-
tended."
and Frey
to his side,
fell
valiantly,
and
2 8l
At
this
the
signal
one
end,
rock
Gioll.
shook
and
fastened
When
other
this
joy;
sight
for they
saw
their
was
silent, for in
Then Thor
down
through
will roll
The
out
sails
to
magic
silent
on
the
till
his
up a loud shout of
averted.
had
the
Only Tyr
lost his
hand.
country a
of Skidbladnir
and
floated
moonlight;
in
and began
turbid
river.
its
So
Ragnarok be come.
the wind;
ship,
and
course
it
Asgard
Fenrir,
rose,
the struggle he
thrust
great
bounded forward
At
the
to
he
as
himself,
the
now
spread themselves
over the
lake
silently
in
the
in
the
Bifrost,
28 a
all
won
made
the
highest honour;
honour?" and,
the highest
answer,
of
for,
all
"
"
The wolf
to
We
swallow
see
Fenrir
the
is
annihilation;
chief of
him here
Why
he was destined
gods at
Ragnarok.
in him.
the
come
again
his
the destructive
and physically
is
personified
make
can
a puzzle.
May
it
mean
that subtlety
to
relinquish.
who
means "Shining;"
chief of gods.
like
283
He
at
is
His name
giantess.
also a sort of
Har
says of him,
the gods,
in valour is
one hand
is
man who
hence a
surpasses
called Tyr-strong."
all
others
side.
Tyr
war gods
his
gives
Wednesday, Thor
betwixt
add, to
for ever.
name
to
Tuesday, as
to Thursday,
Odin
to
to Friday.
Some
Saturday.
He
Loki
next chapter.
strife
we may
to
is
the patron of
of
the
THE PUNISHMENT OF
CHAPTER
LOKI.
VIII.
THE PUNISHMENT OF
AFTER
tured
LOKI.
He knew
JEsir.
he must bend
future,
285
all
his
of those
just
whom
The world
is
large,
and
am
into
to the
thick woods,
waters
neither
is
Manheim
there
and no measure
is
no end
for the
deep
286
no cause
to
fear.
was
He
wandered
into
far
thick
the
have
me;
and
hills,
afraid.
woods,
;
and
he climbed
crouched in the
ray of
down
clear
calm,
and he knew
follow him,
seemed always to
light
that
it
eye of All-Father,
Air Throne.
Then he
disguising
to
tried
the
escape
under
himself
judging
various
eye
by
Some-
shapes.
fish,
among
living
nature, everything
some voice
in
in
sea
seemed
which
to
but,
creatures,
to
or
wherever
alone
say
to
him,
he
with dead
to find
You
are
Loki,
or water,
Tired at
find,
Loki
have
you
there
last
He
in
Air,
earth,
him anywhere.
built himself
river
at
which,
lower point,
it,
the
for
rest
narrow, glittering
flashed
Baldur.
killed
was no
287
that
side,
and catch
first
he knew they
would
to
come,
take
him
away.
Here
Nari,
came
She
felt
sorry for
fear,
and
good and
him now that
too
far
dread and
danger;
they
of the JEsir
little
spent
if
about their
all
their
if All-
it
83
would be
day
Siguna used
quiet,
was
about
that
be
his
At
last,
was
he
the
in
sitting
all
ing
company
The sight
house.
his
together
beautiful,
and
the
noble,
them
and
all
coming
free
pierced
He
on a
fire
burned on the
that
little
river,
floor,
and, rushing to
The
in
and looked
famous
for
stillest
his
till
keen
Kvasir,
sight,
all
pool
stones.
round
fire;
then Odin
knew
it
at
was
the water,
had hidden
make a
and to
drew
pulled
it
up
the
first
all
cast
ordered
into
it
was done as he
It
He
himself.
fresh net,
289
desired.
Thor
When
the water.
time, however,
it
they
them.
threw
of the
river,
it
to
the net,
and
in the pool.
as quickly as he could,
swam down
the
He swam
his disguise,
They divided
into
two bands.
the other
^Esir stood
a group
Loki
below.
Now
he thought he would
and now
that
seemed the
way of
readiest
This
last
the
speed, he attempted
greatest
was watching
he would spring
river.
it
Thor, however,
and
Loki wriggled
his
Thunderer grasped
fingers;
tightly
by
the
in his
and, holding
tail,
^Esir
him
in this
him
manner
There Father
at
Odin's
disguise,
in
the
air.
through
slimy length
slippery,
Thor*s
but
the
in
his
and, cowering
proper
One by one
and
frightened,
to
stand
in looking at him,
for,
over
told
of these,
higher
far
from
than the
Loki's
rest,
house.
had midway
One
four
projecting stones,
bind
to
never again be
Manheim
of
proposed to
able
to
torment
that
the
inhabitants
Thor
to Asgard,
him
391
to bring
a chain
"Loki," he
said,
for himself
While we
Ali
passions,
With
their sinews
their father,
It
we must make a
it
But
rope was
manner the
his
it
said.
in
chain to bind
made of
their evil
to the rock.
Secured
punishment
did
not
end
here.
Ix>kL
The
eyes of the
two
met and
fixed
92
The
each other.
afterwards
his
but every
pitied
world
the
all
moment
down on
fell
tongue
In
move away
was
there
one
only
who
him.
When
the poison.
obliged to turn
fell
poison
he
will
Loki,
origin
as
was
cup
to
away
empty
lie
it,
and drops
it,
He
was
of
shuddered
bound
we have
may have
she
full,
So
the
till
Ragnarok be come.
seen
been, had
all
along,
come
to
of
all
whatever his
mean
evil
by
the destructive
as, father
corruption
There
feast
is
a curious
which the
which
is
THE PUNISHMENT OF
LOKI.
Page
292.
by being glad on
this
insist
^Esir.
upon
for Loki,
well where
Loki was,
best
to
insulting
directly
he was seated
make
the gods
them by
turns,
must have
party.
At
been
last
after
alarm
companions.
journey,
Altogether
Thor,
fault
latter
One account
says that
it
his
appeared
enraged
was immedi-
but another does not mention his capture in connection with ^Egir's feast.
his
becomes the
guilty conscience
itself,
From
this
he
a personification
294
of the consciousness of
His attempts
sin.
con
at
way
that he might
making
be
the net
(for the
bound with
of his
own
children
He
results
is,
as
Fenrir
is
destruction
the entrails
of evil deeds
He
is
ajl
carry
Bad
itself
sin chained
The gods
chained.
it
ar*
said that
is
we can
means of
his
ingenious disguises,
some one
so
wife,
much
come
"there
exactly
to escape
and are
to pity
who wards
off
by
certainly
him
the
from him
of his punishment
We now
said,
standing by,
is left
him
will
how we
to
Ragnarok; and
come a
tell
winter."
the story.
"first," as
But that
is
Har
not
XAGNAROK.
CHAPTER IX
THE GODa
SINCE the day that Baldur died no one had walked
in
the
bright
halls
of
imdimmed
brightness,
no one had
Broadblink
soft,
gates.
Instead
it
was haunted
by wild dreams.
every evening I
296
can
trace
mist; and
their
I
strange from
forms
slight
know
that those
look at them, or
if
the
through
rosy
when
not
think
it
that
happened
much about
Odin stood
sky
until
he stood
crimson
its
the
either.
in the
The evening
watching the
faded
into
soft
yellow
blossoms
stood
over the
only the
It
earth
out
was
alone
twilight,
whilst
the
dream came
blink.
Her
tall
white and
the
distance
the
Then a young
light
same
hall in
RAGNAROK.
Odin saw the night sky above him, and the broad
branches of Yggdrasil swaying in the breeze.
their fingers
For
veiled.
veil,
the
stood
raised
lifted
Odin looked
Skuld's face.
time
who was
three
long
he looked,
grew larger
and
and, at
last,
larger,
The
green
heim
plains;
round
all
^Esirland
it;
in
ice
the
midst,
with
Man-
its
mountains, and
off,
Sometimes
But
last,
during
one
sunrise,
began to
a wolf came
howl at the
sun.
298
majestically
to
to her
down
shuddered, and
earth
wolf was
for
waiting
moon
the
moon
the
Another
rose.
with
and
The
his
opened
her,
wide jaws
open, and, while yet pale and young, he, too, was
devoured.
The
now
while
frost
was
and
night,
and
winter
night,
there
was
Giantess'
Then a
it
again;
and
Winter
shuddered
covered with
snow came
earth
eagle
Rock,
light
and
sat
began
to
strike
his
harp.
Wood.
red.
to
Then
at
last
and ran
brother
con-
RAGNAROK.
299
that.
" An
axe age,
A sword age,
Shields oft
cleft in
twain
A storm age,
A wolf age,
Ere the earth met
Confusion
Heimdall
horn,
rioted
ran
up
the
Bifrost,
Yggdrasil,
root to
summit.
its
forth
might
ash,
doom.*
At length
darkness.
and
ride
in
its
blew
into
was
After this
all
his
Giallar
worlds,
shaken
from
and
its
Well of Wisdom.
in
his place,
so
its
high
it
and began to
to swell
over
Then
the
east,
Hrym was
the
steersman.
All Jotunheim resounded, and
3 oo
moaning before
was
down upon
the
The
rode
sons of Muspell,
swarth
the
whom fire
He led
sun.
the
over
himself,
the
at
tops
the
fire,
beneath
their
again;
even
trod
the
Garm was
head of
of the
all
mountains
Fenrir,
whom
^Esir,
to
Vigrid,
forth
ride
the
Garm, Jormungand,
commanding
he had drawn up
Odin went
to
sated with
the
Then
way
assembled, headed by
sons of
and the
living.
and Loki.
men
his flaming
saw
and
pieces
and
raged,
Bifrost,
shuddered
crowds that
in such
their blood,
in
earth
stumbled;
giantesses
Helheim
broke
bridge
Then
tread.
their
Surt,
tremulous
streamed
light
fire,
of them
head
leader,
and a flood of
the sons of
Then heaven
stony doors.
their
in twain,
cleft
against
in
Fenrir,
in
the
several
plain.
earnest
First,
who came
on,
RAGNAROK.
enormous
his
opening
little
jaw
had
further
been
there
space to admit of it
^Esir's
lower
the
mouth;
301
for
Father
the
on
until
Loki,
and
Loki
radiant slayer,
by
ere
him.
Frey
slew
Heimdall.
met Surtur
Many
but
fell;
blows
the
Fire
Beli's
Frey,
in battle,
terrible
fighting
Heimdall slew
and was
were
killed
exchanged
sword
King's
out-
Thor went
forth
Thunderer raised
against
his
the
Jormungand;
arm
he feared no
strong
he
died.
venom poured
Thor
trength of his
fell
he
evil
the
life
Jor-
air,
;
and
but a
back
nine
paces
his
from
head
the
tr
serpent was
so the monster
by the strong
killed
Then
earth
mankind forsook
all
down
sank
itself
the
into
slowly
the
rivers
wide
The
flood.
stars fell
upward from
At
the
midst
of them,
red
roared
through
the
of
deep,
wrapped
encircling
the
world,
of Yggdrasil,
The
itself.
smoky clouds
fire
flames
and
now
things.
now be
The end
is
wl
the
all
will
last,
infinite
branches
"
gurgled
down
thither.
fire
ocean.
and the
earth,
of heaven;
fire
and
it
and he saw
arise
a second time
RAGNAROK.
the earth from ocean.
sunk.
It
new
that
hills
rose
fell
rose slowly as
it
had
fresh
up
303
and verdant;
rain-
and
trees,
into
fell
waterfalls splashed
glittering
unsown
spring-like;
evil,
and
Forest
all
came
fields
forth
who
fed
the dawn.
earth arose
nature smiled.
on the dew of
city
on Asgard's
Hill
standing
with gold.
in
it,
fairer
Above
all,
than
the
sun,
came,
and
new
hall
and roofed
the
deathless
Vali and
Hcenir;
Baldur
strife
between them.
Two
Wind-Home.
on the
304
Hod
dead," said
is
to
Fenrir,
re-
who
fell
rejoice
them?"
"They
gave
"Garm
things.
dead brothers
many
did,
Hod,"
answered
Baldur;
"they
world
and, as he
listened,
Odin
felt
that
"
;
was true;
this
for,
before
came
it
that,
it
was not
for him.
he
had found
glittering
in
in the grass
his
;
said,
Hod and
hand
Baldur
something
and as he approached
tablets,
my
brothers,
Then they
and were
all
lost in the
Old World."
tablets, and,
became even
"There
"not an
is
no longer any
evil sight,
nor an
sound."
Odin;
RAGNAROK.
But
as
Niflheim,
came
on
he
and
spoke
dusky
the dark-spotted
out
rose
wings
of
Nidhogg,
serpent,
his wings
Then
the joy of
brimmed
that
eternal
his
and
heart,
it
his soul.
then,
no death
in the tears
was
as
the
if
" Is
there,
"Is there
cried.
to
He
stood in the
Long
dying.
had
dropped from her; she had turned through darkness eastward, and looked earnestly towards dawn.
It
was
east
smote
the
voice
came advancing,
filled
all
space.
cruelty,
kill
and death.
each
other;
of
the
swelling,
"Look
star
stood in the
Out
heavens.
all
widening,
forth,"
its
light
it
cold,
said,
and
now
giants
fall,
still
until
it
"upon
pain,
and
fight
and
and
heroes
now
heroes
and
Look
forth,
faiths
of nations shall
eastward,
man ;
nothing
Of
lost it will
course the
full
old
like
totter
hard
is
dark
it
cannot
it
every
melt;
there
is
a dream, or about
men, turn
not save."
stands
they
of pain.
fear not;
nothing
rise;
giants
the earth
there is
and
fall,
veil,
the
his
come ;
story as
it
but,
here
In one
Edda
myth.
it
is
seat
We
those
gods
in
whom
little
Har
like
about the
said
each
^Esir,
we were
to
other or unlike?
RAGNAROK.
ask ourselves.
ire
At
we say
first
little
much
alike
we saw
while, very
indeed.
307
Eddas
before, the
religion
Let
at,
Odin
air,
moon and
throne,
seeing
world;
slain,
of one
hand.
pledger
the
shining, a dweller
who
sees
the
and hears
Heimdall,
upon
far off,
chooser
as
Irmin,
heavenly mountains,
the
the warrior,
said
battles, the
the
earth,
the
Odin,
Mimer's horn.
is
Air-
that
the
chooser
whilst
Odin
of the slain;
had
all
the
for
Jarls
it
is
that
308
fell
in
Thor claimed
battle,
share.
the
Frey,
the
Summer, god
Thralls
of the
It is
for
his
fruitful
supposed that
was
their
separation
and
Freyja's wanderings
weep
and her
for
tears.
this
tears;
would connect
to the under-world.
life
it
In leaving the
What
under-world.
would be natural
to worship
and
earth;
it
strikes us
through
Hela,
the
all
stern,
cold,
tender,
embosoming, reproducing
many ways
ID the
first
in
all
them
as the great
fruitful,
consuming,
to
in
one.
There are
RAGNAROK.
and pry into
first
whence would
existence,
air,
water,
to say
fire,
of the giants
One
side or another of
life
new
personalities
tribe
another
The
tribe's chief
Thor
its
and new
Again, tribe
fact of
Simrock
in
from nature
easily develope,
at
a division of
easily arise
nothing
309
time
from
of
Jarls,
says that
looks as
the
first
if
Thor had
to a
fallen
second
place.
but
into himself
The only
all
Eddas contain
very
obscure strophe
speaking of Ragnarok,
in
is
one
says
Then comes
To
Who
Holy peace
Which shall
Another
Mill
more
ever be."
difficult to
understand in Hyndla'a
lay.
*
Then
Yet
shall another
come,
mightier,
Few may
see
Further forth
and
there,
he
is
and between
But
one side
of the
original
RAGNAROK.
them
personating the
fruitful,
in her nature.
It
is,
Hela
that
is
half a
He
wives.
giantess
Gerda
Rinda
in nature, also
woman.
is
and
also,
says,
and
that the
is,
side
others
some
see
we
so
Odin
we
see
Mother.
"From
a goddess of death
is
underworld should be
one
step.
goddess of the
is
not be
satisfied,
a daughter of
is
Loki.
Out
of
the
flood,
into
the
flood
again,
As
in
the
first
beginning of things
we saw
the
5x3
and
out
of
so in Ragnarok
we
see
antagonistic powers,
a form
this
antagonism
the flood
and
heat,
fighting
once
both
both,
But does
this
certainly
it
the
and
in
to
be
at
work
There
is
we
see
Hodur
We
as well
renewed world.
Sons succeed
their fathers.
Odin's
typify the
giantesses,
RAGNAROK.
313
On
is
it
said that
Hod and
peacefully
together
from
remarked,
also, that
no Vanir gods
the
Voluspa which
in the
Baldur come up
been
has
it
deep;
There
talks of
the
(inferior to those
is
a strophe
also
And
But
strains,
for
we
immediately
again,
Our
from
upon
the
his wings.
flying
by the
wail?
hopeful
of corpses ?
these
following
are
On his wings
brighter,
Gimill's
"
Who
strain,
Is
gold roofs,
it
and we cannot
a joy note or a
from
the
shore
into the
end?"
INDEX OF NAMES.
INDEX OF NAMES,
WITH MEANINGS.
SELECTED FROM MALLET'S " NORTHERN ANTIQUITIES,* AMD
FROM THORPE'S "NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY."
sEgir
dZsir
Alf,
Sea.
Singular,
Alt or Vali
Loki's children.
It signifies,
"strong."
AmsvartnirNsnae of a
lake.
It
means,
"grief,
black,
Fenrir.
gloomy."
r
Angurbodi-
The name
Asgard
Asyniur
signifies,
"
Literally,
Goddesses.
Audkumla The
Baldur
"anguish boding."
first
cow.
Signifies,
xa
"void, darkness.*
Beli
"
Bilskirnir
Name
of Thor's
mansion.
It
either
signifies
BSr or Bur
Bragi
"a
braggart."
our word
From
also,
the
comes
verb
"to
Name
of Baldur's abode.
It
means,
"
broad-blink,
**nsingamenName
of
Freyja's
necklace.
From
bribing
"flaming."
Draupnirk
ring
also the
of Odin,
name
Name
itself.
of a chain
verb in Sweden,
" To
out of Dromi,"
when anything
to
exertion.
Duneyr
Name
Durathror
the
of a dwarf.
Dromi
It is thf
among
Light sleep.
Another of the
harts.
YggdnuiL
INDEX OF NAMES.
Name
Durin
Dvalin
of a dwarf.
Name
Torpor.
Einherjar
Chc?n
Signifies,
317
"light sleep."
also of a dwarf.
heroes.
and Muspellheim.
Old Age. She wrestled with Thor
Elli
Elvidnir
The
in Jotunheim.
It
" wide
means,
storm."
Ermt
Name
Thor had
to wade.
Frigga's abode.
FolkvangTreyfis
abode.
"the
Literally,
folk's
field
or
habitation."
Frey and
Freyja
Master
and
mistress,
The names
from
whence the
also signify,
"mild,
Frigga or Frigg
Garm
way
The dog with bloody breast and jaws who guarded the
From gcrr, "voracious," a word probably
to Helheim.
Gerd,
ukrgerd,
Gimli
Name
destruction
or
"gem."
From
era t
"to do
make," as
in
agriculture.
of the
Signifies,
the
"fire,**
Ginnungagap
"the gap
Literally,
The sounding
Gjallar-bru
river leading
"
Name
of river,
sonorous, fulgid,"
when
it
goes
the skriek
Odin's abode.
Glodsheim
Cognate
Literally, "glad's
"
abode of gladness ;
whence the
from
home," or "the
English word
"gladsome."
Gltipnir
The
It signifies,
Gnipa
Gullinbursti
Hetmdall
Guardian
of the
rainbow.
is still
called
The
fiea
rainbow, whta
a weather-post. "
Hela The Queen of the Dead.
means " intense cold "
literally,
others,
Some
"a
name
Helheim
host," or
Himinbiorg
"army
Heimdall's abode.
mountains."
It signifies,
"
of courage."
INDEX OF NAMES.
Hlidskjalf
the earth.
Hb'dur or
3 zg
means literally,
It
Hod The
**
blind god.
"war,
combat."
The god
ffaenir
He
of mind or perception.
is
sometimes
Hringhorn
"ringed horn."
Literally,
The name of
Baldur's
ship.
Hrym
or
Ryme Name
Hugi
or
Hugin
Spirit, breath,
thought
"rime
frost."
The name
of one
of Odin's ravens.
Hymir Name
Hyrrokin
"
Jduna or Idun
of a giant.
Literally,
smoky
giantes*
Iron Wood.
Jormungand Universal serpent
Jarmrid
Jotunheim
Grimm
Giants' home.
be derived from
KerlaugQK&
on
his
Name
" to
eten,
and may
eat."
to the
way
Kormt Another
JCvasir
eta,
Doomstead.
of a
man
killed
by dwarfs
also of
Odin's sons.
one ol
320
Logi
Loki
Flame.
Either flame, or derived from luka*
Lyngvi
The
Magni
The
powerful.
ManbeitnThe abode
Mani1\it moon.
Mardbll
Sea-nymph
One
of Thor's sons,
of men
from
the
whence, perhaps,
English
word, "doll"
Thai's girdle of might, the belt of prowess.
Afegingjardir
Name
Midgard
applied
to the
earth;
"middle-ward," or
"inclosure."
Mimer
The name
signifies,
is
Name
Miolnir
"
or grind
Modgudur
of Thor's hammer.
It signifies,
Name
bridge leading
of the
to
woman who
Helheim.
It
signifies,
Munin
Muspellheim
"to pound
The Muspellhome.
"courageous,"
signifies,
It signifies,
"courage."
"
"
memory.
Muspell means "elemental
fire."
ffaglfar
of nails.
Name
Nagl means
made
INDEX OF NAMES.
Wanna
Baldur's wife.
One
Nari
Nastrond
of Loki's sons.
Literally,
NidJwgg
Niflheim
"nebulous home."
Literally,
Njord
water.
"Njord's glove."
Koatun
It
means,
" the
place
of ships."
Nornir
Odin
singular
Called
places
still
as, also,
Odur
Wednesbury, in
The
signifies,
Staffordshire,
of Freyja's husband.
The name
YggdrasiL
Roska The
Several
by the Saxons Wodan or Woden.
name of Odin in Germany and Sweden,
Wifeof^Egir.
Ratatosk
Name
retain the
The name
Ragnarok
Ran
Norn
sister
"quick,
Her name
signifies,
"plunder, robbery.*
down
The name
Sif
Siofna
The
Skadi
Skirnir
Frey's
pure, clear."
Skrymir
"smooth,
word "slippery."
The sun.
.Sb/
Surf or Surtur The
name
He
fire-god,
had
is
to come."
eight legs.
Sleipnir
from whence
gliding;"
who
the
English
lived in Muspellheim.
"swart, browned by
signifies,
Suttung
His
fire."
"to drink."
Thaukt
Name
Thialfi
One
of a witch.
of Thor's attendants.
thunder-shower."
Thiassi
Name
of Skadi's
father.
It
signifies,
"violent,
tempestuous."
Thor
God
of thunder.
Also called
Ving-Thor, or Winged-
"the region of
fortitude,"
or
"dense,
together."
Thrymheim
Tyr
Noise-home.
The god
after
whom
closely
signifies,
packed
INDEX OF NAMES.
Urd One of the Nornir. Her name signifies, " past."
Urda The name of the sacred fount, which was situated
over
Bifrost.
The name
Utgard
Literally,
"outer- ward."
Name
Valhalla
of a hall in Gladsheim.
It
means
literally,
means
literally,
The name
Odin's maidens.
The home
Vanaheim
Vanir
Valkyria
singular,
of the Vanir.
singular masculine,
Van;
singular feminine,
Vanr
Vana
signifies,
"empty."
A wanderer.
Vegtam
Name
Vigrid
evil
Vigrid
signifies,
"battle, ride."
VingolfkbQte
of the goddesses.
Means
literally,
"the
of friends."
Voluspd
The name
Yggdrasil
Ymir The
of an old poem.
The name
first
giant.
noise."
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