Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Suzanne Shell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net TOLD BY THE NORTHMEN: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas E. M. WILMOT-BUXTON George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London 1908 * * * * * Contents Hakon's Lay ix CHAPTER I. How All Things Began 1 II. How All-Father Odin Became Wise 6 III. How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men 14 IV. How a Giant Built a Fortress for the Asas 17 V. The Magic Mead 22 VI. How Loki Made a Wager with the Dwarfs 29 VII. The Apples of Youth 34 VIII. How the Fenris Wolf was Chained 41 IX. How the Pride of Thor was Brought Low 46 X. How Thor's Hammer was Lost and Found 56 XI. The Giant's Daughters 64 XII. The Story of Balder the Beautiful 69 XIII. How Hermod Made a Journey to the Underworld 78 XIV. How Loki was Punished at Last 83 XV. The Story of the Magic Sword 87 XVI. How Sigmund Fought His Last Battle 96 XVII. The Story of the Magic Gold 101 XVIII. How Sigurd Slew the Dragon 107 XIX. How Sigurd Won the Hand of Brunhild 114 XX. How the Curse of the Gold is Fulfilled 116 XXI. The Boyhood of Frithiof the Bold 123 XXII. Frithiof and Ingeborg 127 XXIII. Frithiof Braves the Storm 131 XXIV. Balder Forgives 134 XXV. How the End of All Things Came About 140 Pronouncing Index of Proper Names 145 * * * * * Hakon's Lay _By James Russell Lowell_ "O Skald, sing now an olden song, Such as our fathers heard who led great lives; And, as the bravest on a shield is borne Along the waving host that shouts him king, So rode their thrones upon the thronging seas!"