R. B. ANDERSON.

University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wis., September, 1879.

CONTENTS.


[Preface]5
[Introduction]15
[Foreword]33
THE FOOLING OF GYLFE.
CHAPTER I.
[Gefjun’s Plowing]49
CHAPTER II.
[Gylfe’s Journey to Asgard]51
CHAPTER III.
[Of the Highest God]54
CHAPTER IV.
[The Creation of the World]56
CHAPTER V.
[The Creation (continued)]64
CHAPTER VI.
[The First Works of the Asas—The Golden Age]69
CHAPTER VII.
[On the Wonderful Things in Heaven]72
CHAPTER VIII.
[The Asas]79
CHAPTER IX.
[Loke and his Offspring]91
CHAPTER X.
[The Goddesses (Asynjes)]97
CHAPTER XI.
[The Giantess Gerd and Skirner’s Journey]101
CHAPTER XII.
[Life in Valhal]104
CHAPTER XIII.
[Odin’s Horse and Frey’s Ship]109
CHAPTER XIV.
[Thor’s Adventures]113
CHAPTER XV.
[The Death of Balder]131
CHAPTER XVI.
[Ragnarok]140
CHAPTER XVII.
[Regeneration]147
[Afterword to the Fooling of Gylfe]151
BRAGE’S TALK
CHAPTER I.
[Æger’s Journey to Asgard]152
CHAPTER II.
[Idun and her Apples]155
CHAPTER III.
[How Njord got Skade to Wife]158
CHAPTER IV.
[The Origin of Poetry]160
[Afterword to Brage’s Talk]166
EXTRACTS FROM THE POETICAL DICTION.
[Thor and Hrungner]169
[Thor’s Journey to Geirrod’s]176
[Idun]184
[Æger’s Feast]187
[Loke’s Wager with the Dwarfs]189
[The Niflungs and Gjukungs]193
[Menja and Fenja]206
[The Grottesong]208
[Rolf Krake]214
[Hogne and Hild]218
NOTES
[Enea]221
[Herikon]221
[The Historical Odin]221
[Fornjot and the Settlement of Norway]239
[Notes to the Fooling of Gylfe]242
[Note on the Niflungs and Gjukungs]266
[Note on Menja and Fenja]267
[Why the Sea is Salt]268
[VOCABULARY]275
[INDEX]291

THE YOUNGER EDDA.


[INTRODUCTION.]