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PART I The Dwellers in Asgard | |
1. | Far Away and Long Ago | 3 |
2. | The Building of the Wall | 6 |
3. | Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger | 13 |
4. | Sif's Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard | 27 |
5. | How Brock Brought Judgment on Loki | 34 |
6. | How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How Her Loved One Was Lost to Her | 44 |
7. | How Frey Won Gerda, the Giant Maiden, and How He Lost His Magic Sword | 51 |
8. | Heimdall and Little Hnossa: How All Things Came to Be | 62 |
9. | The All-Father's Forebodings: How He Leaves Asgard | 69 |
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PART II Odin the Wanderer |
1. | Odin Goes to Mimir's Well: His Sacrifice for Wisdom | 77 |
2. | Odin Faces an Evil Man | 82 |
3. | Odin Wins for Men the Magic Mead | 90 |
4. | Odin Tells to Vidar, His Silent Son, the Secret of His Doings | 99 |
5. | Thor and Loki in the Giants' City | 102 |
6. | How Thor and Loki Befooled Thrym the Giant | 116 |
7. | Ægir's Feast: How Thor Triumphed | 124 |
8. | The Dwarf's Hoard, and the Curse that It Brought | 136 |
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PART III The Witch's Heart |
1. | Foreboding in Asgard | 151 |
2. | Loki the Betrayer | 155 |
3. | Loki Against the Æsir | 164 |
4. | The Valkyrie | 169 |
5. | The Children of Loki | 174 |
6. | Baldur's Doom | 180 |
7. | Loki's Punishment | 193 |
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PART IV The Sword of the Volsungs and the Twilight of the Gods |
1. | Sigurd's Youth | 199 |
2. | The Sword Gram and the Dragon Fafnir | 208 |
3. | The Dragon's Blood | 215 |
4. | The Story of Sigmund and Signy | 223 |
5. | The Story of Sigmund and Sinfiotli | 233 |
6. | The Story of the Vengeance of the Volsungs and of the Death of Sinfiotli | 239 |
7. | Brynhild in the House of Flame | 245 |
8. | Sigurd at the House of the Nibelungs | 250 |
9. | How Brynhild Was Won for Gunnar | 255 |
10. | The Death of Sigurd | 260 |
11. | The Twilight of the Gods | 265 |