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The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths (1920)

par Padraic Colum

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A retelling of the Norse sagas about Odin, Freya, Thor, Loki and the other gods and gaddesses who lived in Asgard before the dawn of time.

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I was really glad to finally get an overview of Norse mythology. The interlude about the Volsungs seems out of place, and I was already somewhat familiar with it, but it was good reading all the same. It's interesting to see how parts of these stories have been used by modern writers in their own way: most obviously Lewis and Tolkien, but I suspect also George R.R. Martin. (

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judeprufrock | Jul 4, 2023 |

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Mustygusher | Dec 19, 2022 |

Good retelling of Norse myths, meant for children but not too simple for adults. (

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MMc009 | Jan 30, 2022 |

A rather disjoint collection of the Norse myths. I was confused by both way too many names and the confusing chronology. I think there are probably better versions out there.

amyem58 | May 23, 2020 |

Years and years ago my mother found a copy of this being sold from a high school library and bought it for me. I never got around to reading it, though. I loved mythology, but my high school mythology teacher had recently ruined the subject for me so I wasn't really interested in touching it. Years have gone by, though, and I decided to give it another whirl. I think Padraic Colum did a good job retelling the various myths from the Eddas and sequencing them in a rational order so that their telling made sense. It continues to strike me how the ancient Norsemen had a completely different conception of beginning-middle-end from our own. For example, the whole tale of the Volsungs is a mess by modern standards (with the first half consisting of a mythological hero who fights a dragon and the second half involving the deceased hero's widow plotting revenge on Attila the Hun - where the hell is narrative consistency in that?). But Colum presents the tales in such a way that it actually makes sense, even though it requires some narrative license to pull it off.

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The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths

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Nordic Gods and Heroes

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To Harriett Vaughn Moody lover of tales and reader of runes

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"Once there was another Sun and another Moon"

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CONTENTS:

PART I The Dwellers in Asgard
1. Far Away and Long Ago
2. The Building of the Wall
3. Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger
4. Sif's Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard 2
5. How Brock Brought Judgment on Loki
6. How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How Her Loved One Was Lost to Her
7. How Frey Won Gerda, the Giant Maiden, and How He Lost His Magic Sword
8. Heimdall and Little Hnossa: How All Things Came to Be
9. The All-Father's Forebodings: How He Leaves Asgard

PART II Odin the Wanderer
1. Odin Goes to Mimir's Well: His Sacrifice for Wisdom
2. Odin Faces an Evil Man
3. Odin Wins for Men the Magic Mead
4. Odin Tells to Vidar, His Silent Son, the Secret of His Doings
5. Thor and Loki in the Giants' City
6. How Thor and Loki Befooled Thrym the Giant
7. Ægir's Feast: How Thor Triumphed
8. The Dwarf's Hoard, and the Curse that It Brought

PART III The Witch's Heart
1. Foreboding in Asgard
2. Loki the Betrayer
3. Loki Against the Æsir
4. The Valkyrie
5. The Children of Loki
6. Baldur's Doom
7. Loki's Punishment

PART IV The Sword of the Volsungs and the Twilight of the Gods
1. Sigurd's Youth
2. The Sword Gram and the Dragon Fafnir
3. The Dragon's Blood
4. The Story of Sigmund and Signy
5. The Story of Sigmund and Sinfiotli
6. The Story of the Vengeance of the Volsungs and of the Death of Sinfiotli
7. Brynhild in the House of Flame
8. Sigurd at the House of the Nibelungs
9. How Brynhild Was Won for Gunnar
10. The Death of Sigurd
11. The Twilight of the Gods

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