CONTENTS

	PART I The Dwellers in Asgard
1.	Far Away and Long Ago	3
2.	The Building of the Wall	6
3.	Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger	13
4.	Sif's Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard	27
5.	How Brock Brought judgment on Loki	34
6.	How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How Her Loved One Was Lost to Her	44
7.	How Frey Won Gerda, the Giant Maiden, and How He Lost His Magic Sword	51
8.	Heimdall and Little Hnossa: How All Things Came to Be	62
9.	The All-Father's Forebodings: How He Leaves Asgard	69
	PART II Odin the Wanderer
1.	Odin Goes to Mimir's Well: His Sacrifice for Wisdom	77
2.	Odin Faces an Evil Man	82
3.	Odin Wins for Men the Magic Mead	90
4.	Odin Tells to Vidar, His Silent Son, the Secret of His Doings	99
5.	Thor and Loki in the Giants' City	102
6.	How Thor and Loki Befooled Thrym the Giant	116
7.	Aegir's Feast: How Thor Triumphed	124
8.	The Dwarf's Hoard, and the Curse that It Brought	136
	PART III The Witch's Heart
1.	Foreboding in Asgard	151
2.	Loki the Betrayer	155
3.	Loki Against the Aesir	164
4.	The Valkyrie	169
5.	The Children of Loki	174
6.	Baldur's Doom	180
7.	Loki's Punishment	193
	PART IV The Sword of the Volsungs and the Twilight of the Gods
1.	Sigurd's Youth	199
2.	The Sword Gram and the Dragon Fafnir	208
3.	The Dragon's Blood	215
4.	The Story of Sigmund and Signy	223
5.	The Story of Sigmund and Sinfiotli	233
6.	The Story of the Vengeance of the Volsungs and of the Death of Sinfiotli	239
7.	Brynhild in the House of Flame	245
8.	Sigurd at the House of the Nibelungs	250
9.	How Brynhild Was Won for Gunnar	255
10.	The Death of Sigurd	260
11.	The Twilight of the Gods	265