THE HEROES OF ASGARD
TALES FROM SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY
BY A. & E. KEARY
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUARD
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1909
All rights reserved
New edition September, 1906. Reprinted July, 1909.
Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
PREFACE.
In preparing the Second Edition of this little volume of tales from the Northern Mythology for the press, the Authors have thought it advisable to omit the conversations at the beginning and end of the chapters, which had been objected to as breaking the course of the narrative. They have carefully revised the whole, corrected many inaccuracies and added fresh information drawn from sources they had not had an opportunity of consulting when the volume first appeared. The writers to whose works the Authors have been most indebted, are Simrock, Mallet, Laing, Thorpe, Howitt and Dasent.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
INTRODUCTION, 9
CHAPTER I. THE ÆSIR.
PART I.--A GIANT--A COW--AND A HERO, 41 II.--AIR THRONE, THE DWARFS, AND THE LIGHT ELVES, 51 III.--NIFLHEIM, 59 IV.--THE CHILDREN OF LOKI, 67 V.--BIFRÖST, URDA, AND THE NORNS, 72 VI.--ODHÆRIR, 81
CHAPTER II. HOW THOR WENT TO JÖTUNHEIM.
PART I.--FROM ASGARD TO UTGARD, 109 II.--THE SERPENT AND THE KETTLE, 130