Northern Antiquities.
VOLUME II.
Translation of the Edda, and other Islandic Pieces.
Northern Antiquities:
OR,
A DESCRIPTION
OF THE
Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws
OF THE
ANCIENT DANES,
And other Northern Nations;
Including those of
Our own SAXON ANCESTORS.
WITH
A Translation of the Edda, or
System of RUNIC MYTHOLOGY,
AND
OTHER PIECES,
From the Ancient Islandic Tongue.
In TWO VOLUMES.
TRANSLATED
From Mons. Mallet’s Introduction a l’ Histoire de Dannemarc, &c.
With Additional Notes
By the English Translator,
AND
Goranson's Latin Version of the Edda.
VOLUME II.
LONDON:
Printed for T. Carnan and Co. at No. 65. in
CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME II.
The Author's Introduction. | Page i
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The Edda, or Ancient Icelandic (or Runic) MYTHOLOGY. | p. I | |
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The Vision of Gylfe: and Illusions of Har. | p. 1 | |
1 Fable. | Questions of Gangler. | p. 7 |
2 Fab. | Of the Burning of the World, and of Surtur. | p. 13 |
3 Fab. | Of the Cow Œdumla. | p. 18 |
4 Fab. | How the sons of Bore made Heaven and Earth. | p. 22 |
5 Fab. | Of the formation of Aske and Emla. | p. 28 |
6 Fab. | Of the Giant Nor. | p. 33 |
7 Fab. | Of the Way that leads to Heaven. | p. 40 |
8 Fab. | Of the Holy City, or Residence of the Gods. | p. 49 |
9 Fab. | Of the Cities which are in Heaven. | p. 57 |
10 Fab. | Of the Gods to be believed in. | p. 61 |
11 Fab. | Of the God Thor, the son of Odin. | p. 65 |
12 Fab. | Of the God Balder. | p. 70 |
13 Fab. | Of the God Frey, and the Goddess Freya. | p. 76 |
14 Fab. | Of the God Tyr. | p. 79 |
15 Fab. | Of Heimdall, and some other Gods. | p. 82 |
16 Fab. | Of Loke. | p. 85 |
17 Fab. | Of the Wolf Fenris. | p. 90 |
18 Fab. | Of the Goddesses. | p. 96 |
19 Fab. | Of Frey and Girde. | p. 102 |
20 Fab. | Of the Food of the Gods. | p. 105 |
21 Fab. | Of the Horse Sleipner, and his origin. | p. 112 |
22 Fab. | Of the Ship of the Gods. | p. 116 |
23 Fab. | Of the God Thor. | p. 117 |
24 Fab. | Of Thialfe’s art. | p. 125 |
25 Fab. | Of the Trials that Thor underwent. | p. 126 |
26 Fab. | The Illusions accounted for. | p. 129 |
27 Fab. | Of the voyage undertaken by Thor, to go to fish for the Great Serpent. | p. 134 |
28 Fab. | Of Balder the Good. | p. 138 |
29 Fab. | Hermode’s journey to Hell. | p. 149 |
30 Fab. | The flight of Loke. | p. 154 |
31 Fab. | The punishment of Loke. | p. 157 |
32 Fab. | Of the Twilight of the Gods. | p. 159 |
33 Fab. | The sequel of the Conflagration of the world. | p. 164
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An Idea of the Second Part of the Edda. | p. 183
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An Idea of the more Ancient Edda, | ||
Viz. | Of the Voluspa. | p. 201 |
Viz. | Of the Havamaal, or Sublime Discourse of Odin. | p. 205 |
Viz. | Of the Runic Chapter, or Magic of Odin. | p. 216
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Odes and other Ancient Poems. | p. 225 | |
Viz. | Extracts from the Ode of king Regner Lodbrog. | p. 228 |
Viz. | The Ode of Harald the Valiant. | p. 236, 237 |
Viz. | The Elogium of Hacon. | p. 239, 240 |
Viz. | The History of Charles and Grymer, Swedish kings; and of Hialmer, the son of Harec, king of Biarmland. | p. 245, 248
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Supplement. | p. 269
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Hyperboreorum Atlantiorum, seu Suiogotorum et Nordmannorum Edda, &c. Opera et studio Johannis Goranson. | p. 275
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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