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D'Aulaires' Book of Norse myths

Call Number

  • J 293 DAUL (CEN, OSH, WSQ)

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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.

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