| Description |
xii, 154 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: Norse gods and giants. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1967. |
| Contents |
The first gods and giants -- The creation of the world -- The creation of man -- Yggdrasil, the world tree -- Asgard and the aesir gods -- Odin, the all-father -- Thor, the thunder-god -- Loki, the god of the jotun race -- Sifs golden hair -- Loki's monstrous brood -- Balder, the god of light -- Heimdall, the watchman of asgard -- Njord, frey and freya -- Bragi, god of poetry -- Odin's eight-legged steed -- The valkyries and valhalla -- Frigg and the goddesses -- Freya's wonderful necklace -- Idunn's apples of youth -- Skade, the ski-goddess -- Frey and gerd, the jotun maiden -- The theft of thor's hammer -- Thor and the jotun geirrod -- Thor and the jotun utgardsloki -- Thor and the jotun rungnir -- Thor and the jotun aegir -- The death of balder -- Loki's punishment -- Ragnarokk, the destiny of the gods -- A new world. |
| Subject |
Gods, Norse -- Juvenile literature.
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Mythology, Norse -- Juvenile literature.
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Giants (Folklore) -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Author |
D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin, 1898-1986.
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| Added Title |
Book of Norse myths |
| ISBN |
159017125X |
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