Teutonic Myth And Legend

This volume deals with the myths and legends of the Teutonic peoples--Norsemen, Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, Franks, Angles, Saxons, and all the other Germanic tribes whose descendants now occupy England, Northern France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. The volume might have been called Northern European Myth and Legend. It is the body of folk tales, epics and religious beliefs which all Anglo-Saxons have inherited directly from their ancestors, and find most deeply embedded in every-day words and thoughts such as names for the days of the week, names recalling the gods and goddesses of our forefathers. Contents: PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I - Story of Creation CHAPTER II - The Nine Worlds CHAPTER III - The Deeds of Odin CHAPTER IV - How Evil entered Asgard CHAPTER V - The Winter War CHAPTER VI - Triumph of Love CHAPTER VII - The Lost Sword of Victory CHAPTER VIII - Fall of Asgard CHAPTER IX - The Gods Reconciled CHAPTER X - Loke's Evil Progeny CHAPTER XI - Thor's Great Fishing CHAPTER XII - The City of Enchantments CHAPTER XIII - Thor in Peril CHAPTER XIV - The Great Stone Giant CHAPTER XV - Balder the Beautiful CHAPTER XVI - The Binding of Loke CHAPTER XVII - The Dusk of the Gods CHAPTER XVIII - The Coming of Beowulf CHAPTER XIX - Conflict with Demons CHAPTER XX - Beowulf and the Dragon CHAPTER XXI - Hother and Balder CHAPTER XXII - The Traditional Hamlet CHAPTER XXIII - Hamlet's Storm-mill CHAPTER XXIV - Land of the Not-dead and many Marvels CHAPTER XXV - The Doom of the Volsungs CHAPTER XXVI - How Sigmund was Avenged CHAPTER XXVII - Helgi Hundingsbane CHAPTER XXVIII - Sigurd the Dragon Slayer CHAPTER XXIX - Brynhild and Gudrun CHAPTER XXX - The Last of the Volsungs CHAPTER XXXI - Gudrun's Vengeance CHAPTER XXXII - Siegfried and the Nibelungs CHAPTER XXXIII - The Promise of Kriemhild CHAPTER XXXIV - How Brunhild and Kriemhild were won CHAPTER XXXV - The Betrayal of Siegfried CHAPTER XXXVI - The Nibelungen Tragedy CHAPTER XXXVII - Dietrich of Bern CHAPTER XXXVIII - The Land of Giants CHAPTER XXXIX - The Wonderful Rose Garden CHAPTER XL - Virginal, Queen of the Mountains CHAPTER XLI - Dietrich in Exile CHAPTER XLII - The King's Homecoming