succumb...................................128
After the giants came the turn of land and sea monsters.........129
The new creation was assuming a more pleasing appearance........132
Deer, eland, and aurochs were bounding in herds.................133
Incessantly a tiny squirrel comes and goes......................136
A vulture perching upon the loftiest top of the sacred tree.....137
Thor's weighty hammer Mjoïner...................................139
The good Freyr seated at Odin's table...........................141
Portrait of Freyr...............................................142
Bragi and the beautiful Freya ..................................147
Return of the eagle with the three precious vessels.............149
Balder, the bright god..........................................151
The wolf Fenris.................................................156
Converse with each other by significative glances...............159
They were the Norns.............................................160
He took counsel with the Norns..................................162
"To Egir, the seas and navigation"..............................164
Gefione took her four sons and changed them into oxen...........165
Jarl, the noble.................................................171
The Valkyrias ..................................................175
Beautiful nymphs of carnage.....................................176
A very mammoth of a boar........................................180
Feast in Scandinavian Paradise..................................181
Hela, the pale goddess..........................................185
"Balder, fair Balder, is going to die"..........................189
Loki succeeds in exhilarating even Odin himself.................191
Balder is amused by the game....................................192
When the mother told her pitiful tale the iron trees wept.......197
The three sacred cocks announcing the Twilight of Greatness.....202
The death of the gods...........................................208
My VIIIth chapter is thus changed into a cenotaph...............211
I like to glean a little where scholars have reaped.............214
The two religions face to face..................................217
Ovid reciting his "Metamorphoses"...............................219
Druidic worship suspended by the Romans.........................220
"Miserere mei, Jesu"............................................222
Perkunos, Pikollos, and Potrympos...............................224
Puscatus,—a kind-hearted god