THOR'S JOURNEY TO GIERRODSGARD.
(From an etching by Lorenz Frölich.)
Loke, in the guise of a falcon, having been captured by Geirrod, promised if released to bring Thor into the power of the giant without his hammer, belt or iron gloves. Thor being persuaded by the crafty Loke, started upon the journey. When he came to the river Vimer he attempted to ford it, though the stream had become a great torrent. As he reached the center the waters rose rapidly until they washed over his shoulders and he seemed to be in imminent danger of being carried away. At this juncture, looking toward the source of the river, he perceived Gjalp, Geirrod's daughter, who stood astride the stream and was causing its rapid growth. He thereupon seized a stone and threw it with his usual precision at the offending woman, who retreated. But it was with much struggling that Thor reached the bank which, however, he would have had great difficulty in ascending but for his fortune to seize a projecting shrub, by the aid of which he drew himself out of the raging waters.
See page [933].
TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
VOLUME THREE
| Page | |
| Story of the Seven Sleepers | [707] |
| The Anthropology of the Mythology | [729] |
| Svipdag and Groa | [747] |
| Menglad's Identity with Freyja | [751] |
| The Sword of Revenge | [759] |
| Orvandel, the Star-Hero | [767] |
| Svipdag Rescues Freyja from the Giants | [770] |
| Svipdag in Saxo's Account of Hotherus | [781] |
| Ericus Disertus in Saxo | [793] |
| Later Fortunes of the Volund Sword | [808] |
| The Svipdag Epithet "Skirnir" | [815] |
| Transformation and Death of Svipdag | [819] |
| Reminiscences of the Svipdag Myth | [830] |
| Orvandel, Egil and Ebbo | [847] |
| Frey Fostered in the Home of Orvandel | [865] |
| Ivalde, Svipdag's Grandfather | [870] |
| Parallel Myths in Rigveda | [874] |
| Judgment Passed on the Ivalde Sons | [884] |
| Olvalde and Ivalde Sons Identical | [890] |
| A Review of Thorsdrapa | [932] |
| Of Volund's Identity with Thjasse | [952] |
| The Worst Deed of Revenge | [956] |
| The Guard at Hvergelmer and the Elivagar | [968] |
| Slagfin, Egil, and Volund | [971] |
| The Niflung Hoard left by Volund | [975] |
| Slagfin-Gjuke a Star-Hero | [981] |
| Slagfin's Appearance in the Moon Myth | [985] |
| Review of the Synonyms of Ivalde's Sons | [991] |