Told by the Northmen: - Stories from the Eddas and Sagas

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Told by the Northmen:, by E. M. [Ethel Mary] Wilmot-Buxton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas Author: E. M. [Ethel Mary] Wilmot-Buxton Release Date: July 30, 2009 [EBook #29551] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOLD BY THE NORTHMEN: *** Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Suzanne Shell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net TOLD BY THE NORTHMEN: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas E. M. WILMOT-BUXTON George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London 1908 Contents Hakon's Lay ix CHAPTER I. How All Things Began 1 II. How All-Father Odin Became Wise 6 III. How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men 14 IV. How a Giant Built a Fortress for the Asas 17 V. The Magic Mead 22 VI. How Loki Made a Wager with the Dwarfs 29 VII. The Apples of Youth 34 VIII. How the Fenris Wolf was Chained 41 IX. How the Pride of Thor was Brought Low 46 X. How Thor's Hammer was Lost and Found 56 XI. The Giant's Daughters 64 XII. The Story of Balder the Beautiful 69 XIII. How Hermod Made a Journey to the Underworld 78 XIV. How Loki was Punished at Last 83 XV. The Story of the Magic Sword 87 XVI.