VALKYRIES BRINGING THE BODY OF A SLAIN WARRIOR TO VALHALLA
(From an etching by Lorenz Frölich.)
Heimdal, the god of light, father of men, sire of kings, was warder of the gates of Valhalla and lived in a castle at the end of the rainbow (Bifröst bridge). He possessed a trumpet called Gjallarhorn with which he summoned together the gods at Ragnarok. He is represented as the zealous gate-keeper who received and admitted to Valhalla the bodies of warriors slain in battle, when brought hence by Valkyrie maidens who gathered them from battle-fields. Valhalla was the abode of Odin in Asgard which was situated in Gladsheim, the valley of joy. In this paradise dead warriors were revived and spent all after-time fighting, feasting, and drinking as the guests of Odin, pursuing those pleasures that most delighted them when in the flesh.
TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
VOLUME TWO
| Page | |
| Myth in Regard to the Lower World | [353] |
| Myth Concerning Mimer's Grove | [379] |
| Mimer's Grove and Regeneration of the World | [389] |
| Gylfaginning's Cosmography | [395] |
| The Word Hel in Linguistic Usage | [406] |
| Border Mountain Between Hel and Nifelhel | [414] |
| Description of Nifelhel | [426] |
| Who the Inhabitants of Hel are | [440] |
| The Classes of Beings in Hel | [445] |
| The Kingdom of Death | [447] |
| Valkyries, Psycho-messengers of Diseases | [457] |
| The Way of Those who Fall by the Sword | [462] |
| Risting with the Spear-point | [472] |
| Loke's Daughter, Hel | [476] |
| Way to Hades Common to the Dead | [482] |
| The Doom of the Dead | [485] |
| The Looks of the Thingstead | [505] |
| The Hades Drink | [514] |
| The Hades Horn Embellished with Serpents | [521] |
| The Lot of the Blessed | [528] |
| Arrival at the Na-gates | [531] |
| The Places of Punishment | [534] |
| The Hall in Nastrands | [540] |
| Loke's Cave of Punishment | [552] |
| The Great World-Mill | [565] |
| The World-Mill makes the Constellations Revolve | [579] |
| Origin of the Sacred Fire | [586] |
| Mundilfore's Identity with Lodur | [601] |
| Nat, Mother of the Gods | [608] |
| Narfi, Nat's Father | [611] |
| Giant Clans Descended from Ymer | [624] |
| Identity of Mimer and Nidhad | [630] |
| Review of Mimer's Names and Epithets | [641] |
| The Mead Myth | [644] |
| The Moon and the Mead | [669] |
| Myths of the Moon-God | [680] |