NORSE MYTHOLOGY

Thor Fighting The Giants.

1NORSE MYTHOLOGY;

OR,

THE RELIGION OF OUR FOREFATHERS,

CONTAINING ALL THE

MYTHS OF THE EDDAS,

SYSTEMATIZED AND INTERPRETED.

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION, VOCABULARY AND INDEX.

R. B. ANDERSON, A.M.,

PROFESSOR OF THE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF

WISCONSIN, AUTHOR OF “AMERICA NOT DISCOVERED BY

COLUMBUS,” “DEN NORSKE MAALSAG,” ETC.

SECOND EDITION.

CHICAGO:

S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY.

LONDON TRÜBNER & CO.

1876.

2Copyright 1875.

By S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY.

ELECTROTYPED BY ZEESE & CO.

3TO

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,

THE AMERICAN POET,

WHO HAS NOT ONLY REFRESHED HIMSELF AT THE CASTALIAN FOUNTAIN, BUT

ALSO COMMUNED WITH BRAGE, AND TAKEN DEEP DRAUGHTS

FROM THE WELLS OF URD AND MIMER,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED,

WITH THE GRATEFUL REVERENCE OF

THE AUTHOR.

5I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than anyother. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions ofEurope till the eleventh century: eight hundred years ago the Norwegianswere still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of ourfathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless westill resemble in so many ways. Strange: they did believe that, while webelieve so differently. Let us look a little at this poor Norse creed, formany reasons. We have tolerable means to do it; for there is anotherpoint of interest in these Scandinavian mythologies: that they have beenpreserved so well.

Neither is there no use in knowing something about this old Paganismof our fathers. Unconsciously, and combined with higher things, it is in usyet, that old faith withal. To know it consciously brings us into closer andclearer relations with the past,—with our own possessions in the past. Forthe whole past, as I keep repeating, is the possession of th

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NORSE MYTHOLOGY

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