Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland, Vol. 3

From this it would appear that Volund was very intimately associated with one of the archers of the mythology, and that both had some reason for being enemies of Halfdan. Can th...

In the mythology _Odr_, like _Hödr_, was an inhabitant of Asgard, but nevertheless, like _Hödr_, he has had hostile relations to Asgard, and in this connection he has fought wit...

It is both possible and assumable that in the mythology the brothers divided the gold in silence and in harmony. But that it should have been done in the manner here related may...

In the very nature of things it cannot in the monkish poem be the task of the young Svipdag-Orentel to go in search of the heathen goddess Freyja and rescue her from the power o...

Groa hears his prayer, and sings from the grave an incantation of protection against the dangers which her prophetic vision has discovered on those journeys that now lie before...

Loder also gave at the same time another gift, _litr goda_. To understand this expression (hitherto translated with "good complexion"), we must bear in mind that the Teutons, li...

In regard to Svipdag's saga, the first result gained is that the mythology was not inclined to allow Volund's sword, concealed in the lower world, to fall into the hands of a he...

It has already been demonstrated that _Dvalinn_ is a son of Mimer (see No. 53). Sindre-Dvalin and his kinsmen are therefore Mimer's offspring (_Mims synir_). The golden citadel...

It is remarkable, but, as we shall find later, easy to explain that this saga-hero, whom the mythology made Freyja's husband, and whose career was adorned with such strange adve...

It has long since attracted the attention of mythologists that in this narrative there are found two names, Otharus and Syritha, which seem to refer to the myth concerning Freyj...

While Skaldskaparmal makes Loke and no one else accompany Thor to Geirrod, and represents the whole matter as a visit to the giant by Thor, we learn from Thorsdrapa that this jo...

But some evil tongue persuaded the gods that the Ribhus had said something derogatory of the goblet made by Tvashtar. This made Tvashtar angry, and he demanded their death. The...

While Hadding lived in exile in a northern wilderness, after his great defeat in conflict with the Swedes, it happened, on a sunny, warm day, that he went to the sea to bathe. W...

Harbard-Loke here speaks of a giant who, in his mind, was a valiant one, but whose "senses he stole," that is, whom he "cunningly deprived of thought and reflection." There are...

When Volund and Egil, angry at the gods, abandoned Frey to the power of the giants and set out for the Wolfdales, they were unable to take with them their immense treasures inhe...

Originally, the mead, the _soma_, belongs to Mimer alone. From an unknown depth it rises in the lower world directly under the world-tree, whose middle root is watered by the we...

Asgard, 33, 41, 166, 218, 229, 245, 276, 376, 397, 423, 443, 467, 575, 601, 693, 724, 751, 772, 790, 806, 845, 865, 877, 909, 938, 959, 977, 989, 1004.

(17) In Haustlaung Thjasse is called _ving-Rögnir vagna_, "the Rogner of the winged cars," and _fjardarblads leik-Regin_, "the Regin of the motion of the feather-leaf (the wing)...

HEIMDALR. He was the heavenly watchman in the old mythology, answering to St. Peter in the medieval. According to the Lay of Rig (Heimdal), he was the father and founder of the...

(Thjasse flew a long way with Loke, so that the latter came near being torn into pieces), "... thereupon (_thá_ = _deinde_) became he who caused Thor to run (_vard Ihórs ofrunni...

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According to the Norse version of the Volund saga, one of the precautions resorted to is to sever the sinews of his knees (str. 17 and the prose). It is _Nidadr's_ queen who cau...

In the mythology there was a circle of a few individuals who were celebrated players on stringed instruments. They are Balder, Hoder, Slagfin, and Brage. In the heroic poems the...

Like the relation between Volund and his swan-maids in Volundarkvida, the relation between Rogner-Thjasse and Idun in Forspjallsljod is not that of the robber to his unwilling v...

Thor, 36, 45, 88, 151, 198, 240, 256, 276, 298, 316, 415, 425, 437, 470, 580, 599, 748, 784, 793, 809, 838, 852, 866, 889, 909, 920, 933, 943, 960, 996.