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D'Aulaires' Book of Norse myths
Publication Information
New York : New York Review Books, [2005], c1967.
Physical Description
xiii, 154 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Originally published: Norse gods and giants. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1967.
Contents
- The first gods and giants
- The creation of the world
- The creation of man
- Yggdrasil, the world tree
- Asgard and the aesir gods
- Odin, the all-father
- Thor, the thunder-god
- Loki, the god of the jotun race
- Sif's golden hair
- Loki's monstrous brood
- Balder, the god of light
- Heimdall, the watchman of Asgard
- Njord, Frey and Freya
- Bragi, god of poetry
- Odin's eight-legged steed
- The Valkyries and Valhalla
- Frigg and the goddesses
- Freya's wonderful necklace
- Idunn's apples of youth
- Skade, the ski-goddess
- Frey and Gerd, the jotun maiden
- The theft of Thor's hammer
- Thor and the jotun geirrod
- Thor and the jotun Utgardsloki
- Thor and the jotun rungnir
- Thor and the jotun aegir
- The death of Balder
- Loki's punishment
- Ragnarokk, the destiny of the gods
- A new world.