Part I. The Dwellers In Asgard. 1. Far Away : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 3 PART I THE DWELLERS IN ASGARD 1. FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO ONCE there was another Sun and another Moon; a different Sun and a different Moon from the ones we see now. Sol was the name of that Sun and Mani was the name of that Moon. But always...
Part Ii. Odin The Wanderer. 8. The Dwarfs : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 136 8. THE DWARFS HOARD, AND THE CURSE THAT IT BROUGHT NOW old gir's feast was over and all the sir and the Vanir made ready for their return to Asgard. Two only went on another way--Odin, the Eldest of the Gods, and Loki the Mischievous. Loki...
Title Page : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], THE CHILDREN OF ODIN BY PADRAIC COLUM ILLUSTRATED BY WILLY POGNY Macmillan Publishing Co., New York [1920] Scanned, Proofed And Formatted , July 2004 By John Bruno Hare. This Text Is In The Public Domain In The United States Because It W...
Part I. The Dwellers In Asgard. 4. Sif's : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 27 4. SIF'S GOLDEN HAIR: HOW LOKI WROUGHT MISCHIEF IN ASGARD ALL who dwelt in Asgard, the sir and the Asyniur, who were the Gods and the Goddesses, and the Vanir, who were the friends of the Gods and the Goddesses, were wroth with Loki. It w...
Part Iii. The Witch's Heart. 5. The Children : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 174 5. THE CHILDREN OF LOKI THE children of Loki and the witch Angerboda were not as the children of men: they were formless as water, or air, or fire is formless, but it was given to each of them to take on the form that was most like...
Part Ii. Odin The Wanderer. 7. Aegir's Feast : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 124 7. AEGIR'S FEAST: HOW THOR TRIUMPHED THE time between midday and evening wore on while the sir and the Vanir gathered for the feast in old gir's hall listened to the stories that Loki told in mockery of Thor. The night came, but no banquet...
Untitled : * This is Padraic Colum's retelling of the Eddas and the Volsung Saga for young adults. Colum and Pogany also collaborated on The Adventures of Odysseus, and The King of Ireland's Son. Title Page Contents PART I. THE DWELLERS IN ASGARD 1. Far Away and Long Ago 2. The Building of the Wall 3. Idun...
Part Ii. Odin The Wanderer. 6. How Th : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 116 6. HOW THOR AND LOKI BEFOOLED THRYM THE GIANT LOKI told another tale about Thor--about Thor and Thrym, a stupid Giant who had cunning streaks in him. Loki and Thor had been in this Giant's house. He had made a feast for them and Thor had...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs. Part 11 : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 233 4. THE STORY OF SIGMUND AND SINFIOTLI Sigurd rode the ways of the forest he thought upon Sigmund, his father, on his life and his death, according to what Hiordis, his mother, had told him. Sigmund lived for long the life of the hunter...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs. Part 07 : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 255 8. HOW BRYNHILD WAS WON FOR GUNNAR NOW that Sigurd had wed Gudrun he was one with the Nibelungs. The hoard that was in Fafnir's cave he brought away and he left it in their treasure house. He went into his fosterfather's kingdom ag...
Part Ii. Odin The Wanderer. 3. Odin Wins : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 90 3. ODIN WINS FOR MEN THE MAGIC MEAD IT was the Dwarf's who brewed the Magic Mead, and it was the Giants who hid it away. But it was Odin who brought it from the place where it was hidden and gave it to the sons of men. Those who drank...
Part I. The Dwellers In Asgard. 3. Idun : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 13 3. IDUNA AND HER APPLES: HOW LOKI PUT THE GODS IN DANGER IN Asgard there was a garden, and in that garden there grew a tree, and on that tree there grew shining apples. Thou knowst, O well-loved one, that every day that passes makes us...
Part Ii. Odin The Wanderer. 5. Thor And Loki : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 102 5. THOR AND LOKI IN THE GIANTS' CITY All but a few of the Dwellers of Asgard had come to the feast offered by gir the Old, the Giant King of the Sea. Frigga, the queenly wife of Odin, was there, and Frey and Freya; Iduna, who guarded...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs. Part 03 : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 208 2. THE SWORD GRAM AND THE DRAGON FAFNIR MOUNTED upon Grani, his proud horse, Sigurd rode to the Hall and showed himself to Alv, the King, and to Hiordis, his mother. Before the Hall he shouted out the Volsung name, and King Alv felt as he...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs. Part 09 : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 245 6. BRYNHILD IN THE HOUSE OF FLAME THE forest ways led him on and up a mountain-side. He came to a mountain-summit at last: Hindfell, where the trees fell away, leaving a place open to the sky and the winds. On Hindfell was the House...
Part Ii. Odin The Wanderer. 2. Odin Faces : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 82 2. ODIN FACES AN EVIL MAN ONCE, when his wisdom was less great, Odin had lived in the world of men. Frigga, his Queen, was with him then; they had lived on a bleak island, and they were known as Grimner the Fisherman and his wife. Always...
Part Ii. Odin The Wanderer. 1. Odin Goes : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 74 p. 75 p. 76 PART II ODIN THE WANDERER p. 77 1. ODIN GOES TO MIMIR'S WELL: HIS SACRIFICE FOR WISDOM AND so Odin, no longer riding on Sleipner, his eight-legged steed; no longer wearing his golden armor and his eagle-helmet, and without even...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs. Part 05 : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 265 10. THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS SNOW fell on the four quarters of the world; icy winds blew from every side; the sun and the moon were hidden by storms. It was the Fimbul Winter: no spring came and no summer; no autumn brought harvest...
Part Iii. The Witch's Heart. 3. Loki Against : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 164 3. LOKI AGAINST THE AESIR THE sir were the guests of the Vanir: in Frey's palace the Dwellers in Asgard met and feasted in friendship. Odin and Tyr were there, Vidar and Vali, Nird, Frey, Heimdall, and Bragi. The Asyniur and the Vana were...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs. Part 08 : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 250 7. SIGURD AT THE HOUSE OF THE NIBELUNGS HE left Hindfell and he came into a kingdom that was ruled over by a people that were called the Nibelungs as Sigurd's people were called the Volsungs. Giuki was the name of the King of that l...
Part Iii. The Witch's Heart. 6. Baldur's Doom : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 180 6. BALDUR'S DOOM IN Asgard there were two places that meant strength and joy to the sir and the Vanir: one was the garden where grew the apples that Iduna gathered, and the other was the Peace Stead, where, in a palace called Breidablik...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs. Part 04 : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 197 PART IV THE SWORD OF THE VOLSUNGS AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS p. 198 p. 199 1. SIGURD'S YOUTH IN Midgard, in a northern Kingdom, a King reigned whose name was Alv; he was wise and good, and he had in his house a fosterson whose name w...
Part Iii. The Witch's Heart. 4. The Valkyrie : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 169 4. THE VALKYRIE AGAINST the time when the riders of Muspelheim, with the Giants and the evil powers of the Underworld, would bring on battle, Odin All-Father was preparing a host of defenders for Asgard. They were not of the sir n...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs. Part 10 : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 239 5. THE STORY OF THE VENGEANCE OF THE VOLSUNGS AND OF THE DEATH OF SINFIOTLI AND now Sinfiotli had come to his full strength and it was time to take vengeance on King Siggeir for the slaying of Volsung and the dread doom he had set...
Part I. The Dwellers In Asgard. 9. The All : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 69 9. THE ALL-FATHER'S FOREBODINGS: HOW HE LEAVES ASGARD TWO ravens had Odin All-Father; Hugin and Munin were their names; they flew through all the worlds every day, and coming back to Asgard they would light on Odin's shoulders and tell him...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs. Part 02 : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 215 3. THE DRAGON'S BLOOD SIGURD went to war: with the men that King Alv gave him he marched into the country that was ruled over by the slayer of his father. The war that he waged was short and the battles that he won were not perilous. Old...
Part I. The Dwellers In Asgard. 8. Heimdall : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 62 8. HEIMDALL AND LITTLE HNOSSA: HOW ALL THINGS CAME TO BE HNOSSA, the child of Freya and the lost Odur, was the youngest of all the Dwellers in Asgard. And because it had been prophesied that the child would bring her father and her mother...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs. Part 06 : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 260 9. THE DEATH OF SIGURD IT happened one day that Brynhild, Gunnar's wife, now a Queen, was with Sigurd's wife, bathing in a river. Not often they were together. Brynhild was the haughtiest of women, and often she treated Gudrun with disd...
Part I. The Dwellers In Asgard. 5. How Brock : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 34 5. HOW BROCK BROUGHT JUDGMENT ON LOKI IT was then that Loki, with the wish of making the sir and the Vanir friendly to him once more, brought out the wonderful things he had gained from the Dwarfs--the spear Gungnir and the boat Skidbladnir...
Part I. The Dwellers In Asgard. 7. How Frey : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 51 7. HOW FREY WON GERDA, THE GIANT MAIDEN, AND HOW HE LOST HIS MAGIC SWORD FREY, chief of the Vanir, longed to have sight of his sister who had been from Asgard for so long. (You must know that this happened during the time when Freya w...
Part Iii. The Witch's Heart. 2. Loki The Betrayer : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 155 2. LOKI THE BETRAYER HE stole Frigga's dress of falcon feathers. Then as a falcon he flew out of Asgard. Jtunheim was the place that he flew toward. The anger and the fierceness of the hawk was within Loki as he flew through the Giants'...
Part Iii. The Witch's Heart. 1. Foreboding : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 149 PART III THE WITCH'S HEART p. 150 p. 151 1. FOREBODING IN ASGARD WHAT happened afterwards is to the shame of the Gods, and mortals may hardly speak of it. Gulveig the Witch came into Asgard, for Heimdall might not forbid her entrance. She...
Part Ii. Odin The Wanderer. 4. Odin Tells : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 99 4. ODIN TELLS TO VIDAR, HIS SILENT SON, THE SECRET OF HIS DOINGS IT was not only to Giants and Men that Odin showed himself in the days when he went through Jtunheim and Midgard as Vegtam the Wanderer. He met and he spoke with the Gods also...
Part Iv. The Sword Of The Volsungs : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 223 3. THE STORY OF SIGMUND AND SIGNY HE called to Grani, his proud horse; he stood up on a mound in the Heath and he sent forth a great shout. And Grani heard in the cave where Regin had left him and he came galloping to Sigurd with flowing...
Part I. The Dwellers In Asgard. 2. The Building : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 6 2. THE BUILDING OF THE WALL ALWAYS there had been war between the Giants and the Gods--between the Giants who would have destroyed the world and the race of men, and the Gods who would have protected the race of men and would have made...
Part I. The Dwellers In Asgard. 6. How Frey : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 44 6. HOW FREYA GAINED HER NECKLACE AND HOW HER LOVED ONE WAS LOST TO HER YES, Loki went through Asgard silent and with head bent, and the Dwellers in Asgard said one unto the other, "This will teach Loki to work no more mischief." They did...
Part Iii. The Witch's Heart. 7. Loki's Punishment : * "The Children of Odin", by Padraic Colum, [1920], p. 193 7. LOKI'S PUNISHMENT THE crow went flying toward the North, croaking as she flew, "Let Hela keep what she holds. Let Hela keep what she holds." That crow was the hag Thaukt transformed, and the hag Thaukt was Loki. He flew to the North...