Myths of the Norsemen

From the Eddas and Sagas

H. A. Guerber

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486371820
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Social Sciences

The northern gods in order - Odin's eye, Thor's hammer, Baldur's death, the wolf and the last battle - retold from the Eddas with the poetry quoted alongside. Guerber wrote the mythology handbooks from which a great many English-speaking readers first learned these stories. Its 63 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Myths of Creation
• Ymir and Audhumla
• Odin, Vili, and Ve
• The Creation of the Earth
• Mani and Sol
• Dwarfs and Elves
• The Creation of Man
• The Tree Yggdrasil
• The Bridge Bifröst
• The Vanas
• The Father of Gods and Men
• Odin’s Personal Appearance
• Valhalla
• The Feast of the Heroes
• Sleipnir
• The Wild Hunt
• The Pied Piper
• Bishop Hatto
• Irmin
• Mimir’s Well
• Odin and Vafthrudnir
• Invention of Runes
• Geirrod and Agnar
• May-Day Festivals
• The Historical Odin
• The Queen of the Gods
• The Stolen Gold
• Odin Outwitted
• Fulla
• Gna
• Lofn, Vjofn, and Syn
• Gefjon
• Eira, Vara, Vör and Snotra
• Holda
• The Discovery of Flax
• Tannhäuser
• Eástre, the Goddess of Spring
• Bertha, the White Lady
• The Thunderer
• Thor’s Hammer
• Thor’s Family
• Sif, the Golden-haired
• Thor’s Journey to Jötun-heim
• Utgard-loki
• Thor and Hrungnir
• Groa, the Sorceress
• Thor and Thrym
• Thor and Geirrod
• The Worship of Thor
• The God of War
• Tyr’s Sword
• The Story of Fenris
• The Origin of Poetry
• The Quest of the Draught
• The Rape of the Draught
• The God of Music
• Worship of Bragi
• The Apples of Youth
• The Story of Thiassi
• The Return of Idun
• The Goddess of Spring
• Idun Falls to the Nether World
• A Hostage with the Gods
• The God of Summer
• Skadi, Goddess of Winter
• The Parting of Niörd and Skadi
• The Worship of Niörd
• The God of Fairyland
• The Wooing of Gerda
• The historical Frey
• Worship of Frey
• The Yule Feast
• How the Sea became salt
• The Goddess of Love
• Queen of the Valkyrs
• Freya and Odur
• Freya’s Necklace
• Story of Ottar and Angantyr
• The Husbands of Freya
• Worship of Freya
• Chorus of Witches.
• The God of Winter
• Worship of Uller
• The God of Justice and Truth
• The Story of Heligoland
• The Watchman of the Gods
• The Guardian of the Rainbow
• Loki and Freya
• Heimdall’s Names
• The Nimble God
• Hermod and the Soothsayer
• The Silent God
• Vidar’s Shoe
• The Norn’s Prophecy
• The Wooing of Rinda
• The Birth of Vali
• Worship of Vali
• The Three Fates
• The Norns’ Web
• Other Guardian Spirits
• The Story of Nornagesta
• The Vala
• The Battle Maidens
• The Cloud Steeds
• Choosers of the Slain
• Their Numbers and Duties
• Wayland and the Valkyrs
• Brunhild
• Loki’s Offspring
• Hel’s Kingdom in Nifl-heim
• Ideas of the Future Life
• Pestilence and Famine
• Chapter XX: Aegir. The God of the Sea
• The Goddess Ran
• The Waves
• Aegir’s Brewing Kettle
• Thor and Hymir
• Unloved Divinities
• Other Divinities of the Sea
• River Nymphs
• Legends of the Lorelei
• The Best Loved
• Balder’s Dream
• The Vala’s Prophecy
• The Gods at Play
• The Death of Balder
• Hermod’s Errand
• The Funeral Pyre
• Hermod’s Quest
• The Condition of Balder’s Release
• The Return of Hermod
• Vali the Avenger
• The Signification of the Story
• The Worship of Balder
• The Spirit of Evil
• Loki’s Character
• Sigyn
• Skrymsli and the Peasant’s Child
• The Giant Architect
• Loki’s last Crime
• Aegir’s Banquet
• The Pursuit of Loki
• Loki’s Punishment
• Loki’s Day
• Jötun-heim
• Origin of the Mountains
• The First Gods
• The Giant in Love
• The Giant and the Church Bells
• The Giants’ Ship
• Princess Ilse
• The Giantess’s Plaything
• Little Men
• The Tarnkappe
• The Legend of Kallundborg
• The Magic of the Dwarfs
• The Passing of the Dwarfs
• Changelings
• The Peaks of the Trolls
• A Conjecture
• The Realm of Faery
• The Elf-dance
• The Will-o’-the-wisps
• Oberon and Titania
• Alf-blot
• Images on Doorposts
• The Beginning of the Story
• The Volsunga Saga
• Sigi
• Rerir
• Volsung
• The Wedding of Signy
• The Sword in the Branstock
• Sigmund
• Siggeir’s Treachery
• Signy’s Sons
• Sinfiotli
• The Werewolves
• Sigmund and Sinfiotli taken by Siggeir
• Sigmund’s Vengeance
• Helgi
• The Death of Sinfiotli
• Hiordis
• Elf, the Viking
• The Birth of Sigurd
• The Treasure of the Dwarf King
• Sigurd’s Sword
• The Fight with the Dragon
• The Sleeping Warrior Maiden
• The Fostering of Aslaug
• The Niblungs
• Gunnar’s Stratagem
• The Coming of Brunhild
• The Quarrel of the Queens
• The Death of Sigurd
• The Flight of Gudrun
• Atli, King of the Huns
• Burial of the Niblung Treasure
• The Treachery of Atli
• The Last of the Niblungs
• Swanhild
• Interpretation of the Saga
• Bishop Tegnér
• Birth of Viking
• The Game of Ball
• The Blood Feud
• Thorsten and Belé
• Birth of Frithiof and Ingeborg
• Frithiof’s Love for Ingeborg
• Helgé and Halfdan
• Frithiof’s Suit
• Sigurd Ring a Suitor
• At Balder’s Shrine
• Frithiof Banished
• Atlé’s Challenge
• Frithiof’s Home-coming
• Frithiof an Exile
• At the Court of Sigurd Ring
• Frithiof’s Loyalty
• Betrothal of Frithiof and Ingeborg
• The Decline of the Gods
• The Fimbul-winter
• The Wolves Let Loose
• Heimdall Gives the Alarm
• The Terrors of the Sea
• The Terrors of the Underworld
• The Great Battle
• The Devouring Fire
• Regeneration
• A New Heaven
• One too Mighty to Name
• Comparative Mythology
• The Beginning of Things
• Cosmogony
• The Phenomena of the Sky
• Jupiter and Odin
• The Creation of Man
• Norns and Fates
• Myths of the Seasons
• Frigga and Juno
• Musical Myths
• Thor and the Greek Gods
• Idun and Eurydice
• Skadi and Diana
• Frey and Apollo
• Freya and Venus
• Odur and Adonis
• Rinda and Danae
• Myths of the Sea
• Balder and Apollo
• Ragnarok and the Deluge
• Giants and Titans
• The Volsunga Saga
• Brunhild
• Sun Myths
• Index to Poetical Quotations
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