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.
TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
VOLUME ONE.
| Page | ||
| PART I. | ||
| Introduction—The Ancient Aryans | [1] | |
| (a) | The Aryan Family of Languages | [3] |
| Hypothesis of Asiatic Origin of the Aryans | [5] | |
| Hypothesis of European Origin of the Aryans | [15] | |
| The Aryan Land of Europe | [20] | |
| (b) | Ancient Teutondom | [26] |
| PART II. | ||
| (a) | Mediæval Migration Sagas | [32] |
| The Troy Saga and Prose Edda | [44] | |
| Saxo's Relation to the Story of Troy | [47] | |
| Older Periods of the Troy Saga | [50] | |
| Story of the Origin of Trojan Descent of the Franks | [60] | |
| Odin as Leader of the Trojan Emigration | [67] | |
| Materials of the Icelandic Troy Saga | [83] | |
| Result of Foregoing Investigations | [96] | |
| (b) | Popular Traditions of the Middle Ages | [99] |
| Saxon and Swabian Migration Saga | [107] | |
| The Frankish Migration Saga | [111] | |
| Migration Saga of the Burgundians | [113] | |
| Teutonic Emigration Saga | [119] | |
| PART III. | ||
| Myths Concerning the Creation of Man | [126] | |
| Scef, the Original Patriarch | [135] | |
| Borgar-Skjold, the Second Patriarch | [143] | |
| Halfdan, the Third Patriarch | [147] | |
| Halfdan's Enmity with Orvandel and Svipdag | [151] | |
| Halfdan's Identity with Mannus | [153] | |
| Sacred Runes Learned from Heimdal | [159] | |
| Sorcery, the Reverse of Sacred Runes | [165] | |
| Heimdal and the Sun Goddess | [167] | |
| Loke Causes Enmity Between Gods and Creators | [171] | |
| Halfdan Identical with Helge | [180] | |
| The End of the Age of Peace | [185] | |
| War with the Heroes from Svarin's Mound | [194] | |
| Review of the Svipdag Myth | [200] | |
| The World-War and its Causes | [204] | |
| Myth Concerning the Sword Guardian | [213] | |
| Breach Between Asas Vans. Siege of Asgard | [235] | |
| Significance of the World-War | [252] | |
| The War in Midgard. Hadding's Adventures | [255] | |
| Position of the Divine Clans to the Warriors | [262] | |
| Hadding's Defeat | [268] | |
| Loke's Punishment | [273] | |
| Original Model of the Bravalla Battle | [281] | |
| The Dieterich Saga | [285] | |
| PART IV. | ||
| Myth in Regard to the Lower World | [306] | |
| Gudmund, King of the Glittering Plains | [309] | |
| Ruler of the Lower World | [312] | |
| Fjallerus and Hadingus in the Low World | [317] | |
| A Frisian Saga, Adam of Bremen | [319] | |
| Odainsaker and the Glittering Plains | [321] | |
| Identification of Odainsaker | [336] | |
| Gudmund's Identity with Mimer | [339] | |
| Mimer's Grove | [341] | |