“To me there is in the Norse system something very genuine, very great, and manlike,” wrote Carlyle. “A broad simplicity, so very different from the light gracefulness of the old Greek paganism, distinguishes this Norse system. It is thought, the genuine thought of deep, rude, earnest minds, fairly opened to the things about them,—a face-to-face and heart-to-heart inspection of things,—the first characteristic of all good thought in all times.”

CONTENTS.

The Story of the Beginning

Odin’s Reward

Tyr and the Wolf

Freyja’s Necklace

The Hammer of Thor

Thor’s Wonderful Journey

How Thor lost his Hammer

A Gift from Frigga

The Stealing of Iduna

Skadi

Baldur

Ægir’s Feast

The Punishment of Loki

The Twilight of the Gods