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The Origin of Poetry At the time of the dispute between the Æsir and Vanas, when peace had been agreed upon, a vase was brought into the assembly into which both parties solemnly spat. From this saliv
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The Origin of Poetry At the time of the dispute between the Æsir and Vanas, when peace had been agreed upon, a vase was brought into the assembly into which both parties solemnly spat. From this saliv
Comparative Mythology During the past fifty years learned men of many nations have investigated philology and comparati…
The Decline of the Gods One of the distinctive features of Northern mythology is that the people always believed that t…
Bishop Tegnér Probably no writer of the nineteenth century did so much to awaken interest in the literary treasures of …
The Beginning of the Story While the first part of the Elder Edda consists of a collection of alliterative poems descri…
The Realm of Faery Besides the dwarfs there was another numerous class of tiny creatures called Lios-alfar, light or wh…
Little Men In the first chapter we saw how the black elves, dwarfs, or Svart-alfar, were bred like maggots in the flesh…
Jötun-heim As we have already seen, the Northern races imagined that the giants were the first creatures who came to li…
The Spirit of Evil Besides the hideous giant Utgard-Loki, the personification of mischief and evil, whom Thor and his c…
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