Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland, Vol. 1

MEMBER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY; AUTHOR OF THE THE LAST ATHENIAN AND OTHER WORKS.
AUTHORISED TRANSLATION FROM THE SWEDISH
RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL.D., EX-UNITED STATES MINISTER TO DENMARK; AUTHOR OF NORSE MYTHOLOGY, VIKING TALES, ETC.
HON. RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL.D., Ph.D., EDITOR IN CHIEF. J. W. BUEL, Ph.D., MANAGING EDITOR.
VOL. I.
PUBLISHED BY THE NORRœNA SOCIETY, LONDON COPENHAGEN STOCKHOLM BERLIN NEW YORK 1906
OF THE Viking Edition
There are but six hundred and fifty sets made for the world, of which this is
No. 99
COPYRIGHT, T. H. SMART, 1905.

IDUN, HEIMDAL, LOKE, AND BRAGE. (From an etching by Lorenz Frölich.) Idun was the beautiful goddess who in Asgard was keeper of the apples which the gods ate to preserve eternal youth. She is most generally regarded as the wife of Brage. Heimdal, the son of nine mothers, was guardian against the giants of the bridge of the gods, Bifröst. With a trumpet he summoned all the gods together at Ragnarok when he and Loke slew each other. He was the god of light. Loke though beautiful in form was like Lucifer in character and was hence called the god of destruction. By the giantess Angerboda he had three offspring, viz: the Midgard serpent, the Fenris-wolf, and Hela, the latter becoming goddess of Hel. Brage was the son of Odin and being represented as the chief skald in Valhalla he is called the god of poetry.