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                      Teutonic Mythology
                      Gods and Goddesses
                       of the Northland

                             IN

                        THREE VOLUMES
                   By VIKTOR RYDBERG, Ph.D.,
 MEMBER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY; AUTHOR OF THE "THE LAST ATHENIAN"
                      AND OTHER WORKS.

          _AUTHORISED TRANSLATION FROM THE SWEDISH_

                             BY

                 RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL.D.,
   EX-UNITED STATES MINISTER TO DENMARK; AUTHOR OF "NORSE
             MYTHOLOGY," "VIKING TALES," ETC.

          HON. RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL.D., Ph.D.,
                     EDITOR IN CHIEF.
                    J. W. BUEL, Ph.D.,
                     MANAGING EDITOR.

                          VOL. I.

                     PUBLISHED BY THE
                     NORROENA SOCIETY,
       LONDON COPENHAGEN STOCKHOLM BERLIN NEW YORK
                           1906

                      [Illustration]


                        _OF THE_
                    Viking Edition

_There are but six hundred and fifty sets made for the world,
                   of which this is_

                       _No._ 99

               [Illustration: NORROENA]

                      COPYRIGHT,
                     T. H. SMART,
                        1905.




[Illustration: IDUN, HEIMDAL, LOKE, AND BRAGE.
(_From an etching by Lorenz Froelich._)]

Idun was the beautiful goddess who in Asgard was keeper of the apples
which the gods ate to preserve eternal youth. She is most generally
regarded as the wife of Brage.

Heimdal, the son of nine mothers, was guardian against the