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CONTENTS

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  INTRODUCTION xvii
I. STORY OF CREATION 1
II. THE NINE WORLDS 11
III. THE DEEDS OF ODIN 21
IV. HOW EVIL ENTERED ASGARD 29
V. THE WINTER WAR 44
VI. TRIUMPH OF LOVE 53
VII. THE LOST SWORD OF VICTORY 64
VIII. FALL OF ASGARD 72
IX. THE GODS RECONCILED 82
X. LOKE'S EVIL PROGENY 90
XI. THOR'S GREAT FISHING 98
XII. THE CITY OF ENCHANTMENTS 112
XIII. THOR IN PERIL 126
XIV. THE GREAT STONE GIANT 137
XV. BALDER THE BEAUTIFUL 146
XVI. THE BINDING OF LORE 165
XVII. THE DUSK OF THE GODS 177
XVIII. THE COMING OF BEOWULF 187
XIX. CONFLICT WITH DEMONS 197
XX. BEOWULF AND THE DRAGON 210
XXI. HOTHER AND BALDER 221
XXII. THE TRADITIONAL HAMLET 232
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XXIII. HAMLET'S STORM-MILL 246
XXIV. LAND OF THE NOT-DEAD AND MANY MARVELS 254
XXV. THE DOOM OF THE VOLSUNGS 282
XXVI. HOW SIGMUND WAS AVENGED 292
XXVII. HELGI HUNDINGSBANE 299
XXVIII. SIGURD THE DRAGON SLAYER 309
XXIX. BRYNHILD AND GUDRUN 322
XXX. THE LAST OF THE VOLSUNGS 338
XXXI. GUDRUN'S VENGEANCE 343
XXXII. SIEGFRIED AND THE NIBELUNGS 354
XXXIII. THE PROMISE OF KRIEMHILD 362
XXXIV. HOW BRUNHILD AND KRIEMHILD WERE WON 372
XXXV. THE BETRAYAL OF SIEGFRIED 382
XXXVI. THE NIBELUNGEN TRAGEDY 391
XXXVII. DIETRICH OF BERN 404
XXXVIII. THE LAND OF GIANTS 415
XXXIX. THE WONDERFUL ROSE GARDEN 424
XL. VIRGINAL, QUEEN OF THE MOUNTAINS 434
XLI. DIETRICH IN EXILE 439
XLII. THE KING'S HOMECOMING 448
  INDEX 455

 


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