The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
by Padraic Colum
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Contents
- Far Away and Long Ago
- The Building of the Wall
- Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger
- Sif's Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard
- How Brock Brought Judgment on Loki
- How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How Her Loved One Was Lost to Her
- How Frey Won Gerda, the Giant Maiden, and How He Lost His Magic Sword
- Heimdall and Little Hnossa: How All Things Came to Be
- The All-Father's Forebodings: How He Leaves Asgard
- Odin Goes to Mimir's Well: His Sacrifice for Wisdom
- Odin Faces an Evil Man
- Odin Wins for Men the Magic Mead
- Odin Tells to Vidar, His Silent Son, the Secret of His Doings
- Thor and Loki in the Giants' City
- How Thor and Loki Befooled Thrym the Giant
- Ægir's Feast: How Thor Triumphed
- The Dwarf's Hoard, and the Curse That It Brought
- Foreboding in Asgard
- Loki the Betrayer
- Loki Against the Æsir
- The Valkyrie
- The Children of Loki
- Baldur's Doom
- Loki's Punishment
- Sigurd's Youth
- The Sword Gram and the Dragon Fafnir
- The Dragon's Blood
- The Story of Sigmund and Signy
- The Story of Sigmund and Sinfiotli
- The Story of the Vengeance of the Volsungs and of the Death of Sinfiotli
- Brynhild in the House of Flame
- Sigurd at the House of the Nibelungs
- How Brynhild Was Won for Gunnar
- The Death of Sigurd
- The Twilight of the Gods