“To me there is in the Norse system something very genuine, very great, and manlike,” wrote Carlyle. “A broad simplicity, so very different from the light gracefulness of the old Greek paganism, distinguishes this Norse system. It is thought, the genuine thought of deep, rude, earnest minds, fairly opened to the things about them,—a face-to-face and heart-to-heart inspection of things,—the first characteristic of all good thought in all times.”
CONTENTS.
The Story of the Beginning
Odin’s Reward
Tyr and the Wolf
Freyja’s Necklace
The Hammer of Thor
Thor’s Wonderful Journey
How Thor lost his Hammer
A Gift from Frigga
The Stealing of Iduna
Skadi
Baldur
Ægir’s Feast
The Punishment of Loki
The Twilight of the Gods