

E-text prepared by David Edwards, Sam W., and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made
available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)



Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this
      file which includes the original illustrations.
      See 46288-h.htm or 46288-h.zip:
      (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46288/46288-h/46288-h.htm)
      or
      (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46288/46288-h.zip)


      Images of the original pages are available through
      Internet Archive. See
      https://archive.org/details/storiesfromnorth00bake


Transcriber's note:

      The Index includes pronunciation guides for many of the
      entries, which contain an extensive range of accented
      characters. Because these characters are not available
      in this file encoding, they have been transcribed as
      follows:

         characters with macron above, {=a}, {=e}, {=g}, {=i},
         {=o}, {=oo}, {=u}

         characters with breve above, {)a}, {)e}, {)i}, {)o},
         {)oo}

         characters with tilde above, {~e}

         characters with dot above, {.a}

         characters with up tack below, {s+}

         characters with diaresis/umlaut above, {:a}, {:u}

         characters with circumflex above, {^o}





STORIES FROM NORTHERN MYTHS

by

EMILIE KIP BAKER

Author of "Stories of Old Greece and Rome"







New York
The Macmillan Company
1914

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1914,
By the Macmillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1914.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.


      *      *      *      *      *      *

                     [Decoration]

                 THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
         NEW YORK   BOSTON   CHICAGO   DALLAS
                ATLANTA   SAN FRANCISCO

               MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
              LONDON   BOMBAY   CALCUTTA
                       MELBOURNE

           THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
                        TORONTO


      *      *      *      *      *      *


                          TO
                    SARAH M. HOMANS




CONTENTS


                                                            PAGE
       I. How All Things Began                                 1

      II. Odin's Search for Wisdom                             9

     III. The Story of the Magic Mead                         18

      IV. Gods and Men                                        27

       V. Sif's Golden Hair and the Making of the Hammer      40

      VI. The Binding of the Fenris Wolf                      51

     VII. How Thor Went Fishing                               58

    VIII. The Building of the Fortress                        66

      IX. How the Hammer Was Lost and Found                   73

       X. Iduna's Apples                                      80

      XI. How Thor's Pride Was Brought Low.
            Part I                                            91

     XII. How Thor's Pride Was Brought Low.
            Part II                                          100

    XIII. The Wooing of Gerd                                 109

     XIV. How Thor Fought the Giant Hrungner                 117

      XV. The Story of Balder                                126

     XVI. Andvari's Hoard                                    137

    XVII. The Story of Siegmund                              149

   XVIII. The Vengeance of the Volsungs                      159

     XIX. The Magic Sword                                    169

      XX. The Slaying of Fafnir                              183

     XXI. The Valkyrie                                       196

    XXII. Siegfried at Gunther's Court                       204

   XXIII. The Wooing of Brunhilde                            215

    XXIV. How Brunhilde Came to Burgundy                     228

     XXV. The Death of Siegfried                             238

    XXVI. The Last of the Hoard                              251

   XXVII. The Punishment of Loki                             259

  XXVIII. The Twilight of the Gods                           266




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                     FACING PAGE
    Odin disguised as a Traveller                             21

    Loki                                                      41

    Siegfried and the Famous Sword Balmung                   183

    Siegfried fighting the Dragon                            190

    Valkyrie bearing Hero to Valhalla                        200

    Wotan's Farewell to Brunhilde                            202

    Siegfried's Triumphant Entry into Burgundy with
      Captives and Spoils