CHAPTER III. FREY.✦

PART I.--ON TIPTOE IN AIR THRONE, 147 II.--THE GIFT, 152 III.--FAIREST GERD, 157 IV.--THE WOOD BARRI, 163

CHAPTER IV. THE WANDERINGS OF FREYJA.✦

PART I.--THE NECKLACE BRISINGAMEN, 169 II.--LOKI--THE IRON WOOD--A BOUNDLESS WASTE, 177 III.--THE KING OF THE SEA AND HIS DAUGHTERS, 185

CHAPTER V. IDŪNA'S APPLES.✦

PART I.--REFLECTIONS IN THE WATER, 191 II.--THE WINGED-GIANT, 198 III.--HELA, 212 IV.--THROUGH FLOOD AND FIRE, 218

CHAPTER VI. BALDUR.✦

PART I.--THE DREAM, 231 II.--THE PEACESTEAD, 240 III.--BALDUR DEAD, 247 IV.--HELHEIM, 250 V.--WEEPING, 256

CHAPTER VII. THE BINDING OF FENRIR.✦

PART I.--THE MIGHT OF ASGARD, 263 II.--THE SECRET OF SVARTHEIM, 272 III.--HONOUR, 279

CHAPTER VIII. THE PUNISHMENT OF LOKI, 285✦

CHAPTER IX. RAGNARÖK.✦

OR, THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, 295

INDEX OF NAMES, WITH MEANINGS, 315

List of Illustrations.

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GIANT SUTTUNG AND THE DWARFS, 86

GIANT SKRYMIR AND THOR, 115

FREYJA IN THE DWARFS' CAVE, 172

IDUNA GIVING THE MAGIC APPLES, 195

SKADI CHOOSING HER HUSBAND, 227

TYR FEEDING FENRIR, 265

THE PUNISHMENT OF LOKI, 292

THE HEROES OF ASGARD.