PREFACE BY THE TRANSLATOR.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE PROPER NAMES OCCURRING IN OR CONNECTED WITH THE POEM ENTITLED “THE GODS OF THE NORTH.”

Additional remarks respecting Valhalla.—The origin of its conception and meaning.

Opinion of the Swedish poet Ling respecting Valhalla.

THE GODS OF THE NORTH. ARGUMENT OF THE POEM.

CANTO I. THOR SETS OUT ON AN ADVENTURE WITH LOK.

CANTO II. SPELLS UPON THE HEATH.

CANTO III. THOR IN HELHEIM.

CANTO IV. THOR ARRIVES AT UTGARD.

CANTO V. MAGIC SPELLS IN UTGARD.

CANTO VI. THE SPELLS UNRAVELLED.

CANTO VII. THE RETURN HOME.

CANTO VIII. THOR VISITS THE GIANT HYMIR.

CANTO IX. THOR’S FISHING ADVENTURE.

CANTO X. LOK BECOMES ENAMOURED OF SIF.

CANTO XI. CONVERSATION BETWEEN LOK AND SIF.

CANTO XI. LOK’S CONVERSATION WITH SIF.

CANTO XII. LOK PROCURES THINGS OF VALUE FROM THE DWARFS.

CANTO XIII. THE RAPE OF IDUNA.

CANTO XIV. THE DELIVERANCE OF IDUNA.

CANTO XV. THE VANER.[55]

CANTO XVI. THE NUPTIALS OF SKADA.

CANTO XVII. THE AMOUR OF FREY.

CANTO XVIII. JOY IN VALHALLA.

CANTO XIX. THE EINHERIER.

CANTO XX. BRAGUR’S SONG IN HONOUR OF GEFION.

CANTO XXI. CONVERSATION BETWEEN SKIRNIR AND FREY.

CANTO XXII. FREY’S PLAINT AT THE FOUNTAIN.

CANTO XXIII. THE JOURNEY OF SKIRNIR.

CANTO XXIV. GERDA’S LOVE.

CANTO XXV. SKIRNIR FULFILS HIS ERRAND.

CANTO XXVI. THE WOLF FENRIS AND TYR.

CANTO XXVII. THE BANQUET OF ÆGIR.

CANTO XXVIII. LOK’S TREACHERY.

CANTO XXIX. THE HAMMER OF THOR RECOVERED.

CANTO XXX. THE VALA’S PROPHECY.

NOTES AND ELUCIDATIONS.

NOTES TO THE FIRST CANTO.

NOTES TO THE SECOND CANTO.

NOTES TO THE THIRD CANTO.

NOTES TO THE FOURTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE FIFTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE SIXTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE SEVENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE EIGHTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE NINTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE TENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE ELEVENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE TWELFTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE THIRTEENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE FOURTEENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE FIFTEENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE SIXTEENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE SEVENTEENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE EIGHTEENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE NINETEENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE TWENTIETH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CANTO.

NOTES TO THE TWENTY-SECOND CANTO.

NOTES TO THE TWENTY-THIRD CANTO.

NOTES TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH CANTO.

NOTE TO THE TWENTY-FIFTH CANTO.

NOTE TO THE TWENTY-SIXTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CANTO.

NOTES TO THE TWENTY-NINTH CANTO.

NOTE TO THE THIRTIETH CANTO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE VAFTRUDNISMAL (Discourse of Vaftrudner).

EXTRACTS FROM THE VOLUSPA (Vala’s Prophecy).

ETYMOLOGIES OMITTED IN THE CATALOGUE.

CONTENTS.

ERRATA.