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The Children of Odin

by Padraic Colum



Illustrations by
Willy Pogany

The Macmillan Company, New York

Copyright, 1920,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Published November, 1920


Iduna Picking the Apples of Life for the Gods

TO
HARRIETT VAUGHN MOODY
LOVER OF TALES AND
READER OF RUNES



CONTENTS

PART I
The Dwellers in Asgard

1. Far Away and Long Ago
2. The Building of the Wall
3. Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger
4. Sif's Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard
5. How Brock Brought judgment on Loki
6. How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How Her Loved One Was Lost to Her
7. How Frey Won Gerda, the Giant Maiden, and How He Lost His Magic Sword
8. Heimdall and Little Hnossa: How All Things Came to Be
9. The All-Father's Forebodings: How He Leaves Asgard

PART II
Odin the Wanderer

1. Odin Goes to Mimir's Well: His Sacrifice for Wisdom
2. Odin Faces an Evil Man
3. Odin Wins for Men the Magic Mead
4. Odin Tells to Vidar, His Silent Son, the Secret of His Doings
5. Thor and Loki in the Giants' City
6. How Thor and Loki Befooled Thrym the Giant
7. Ęgir's Feast: How Thor Triumphed
8. The Dwarf's Hoard, and the Curse that It Brought
PART III
The Witch's Heart

1. Foreboding in Asgard
2. Loki the Betrayer
3. Loki Against the Ęsir
4. The Valkyrie
5. The Children of Loki
6. Baldur's Doom
7. Loki's Punishment

PART IV
The Sword of the Volsungs and the Twilight of the Gods

1. Sigurd's Youth
2. The Sword Gram and the Dragon Fafnir
3. The Dragon's Blood
4. The Story of Sigmund and Signy
5. The Story of Sigmund and Sinfiotli
6. The Story of the Vengeance of the Volsungs and of the Death of Sinfiotli
7. Brynhild in the House of Flame
8. Sigurd at the House of the Nibelungs
9. How Brynhild Was Won for Gunnar
10. The Death of Sigurd
11. The Twilight of the Gods