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NORSEMYTHOLOGY
NEILGAIMAN
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
Independent Publishers Since 1923
New York • London
FOR EVERETT,
OLD STORIES
FOR A NEW BOY.
CONTENTS
An Introduction
THE PLAYERS
BEFORE THE BEGINNING, AND AFTER
YGGDRASIL AND THE NINE WORLDS
MIMIR’S HEAD AND ODIN’S EYE
THE TREASURES OF THE GODS
THE MASTER BUILDER
THE CHILDREN OF LOKI
FREYA’S UNUSUAL WEDDING
THE MEAD OF POETS
THOR’S JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE GIANTS
THE APPLES OF IMMORTALITY
THE STORY OF GERD AND FREY
HYMIR AND THOR’S FISHING EXPEDITION
THE DEATH OF BALDER
THE LAST DAYS OF LOKI
RAGNAROK: THE FINAL DESTINY OF THE GODS
A Glossary
AN INTRODUCTION
It’s as hard to have a favorite sequence of myths as it is to have a favorite style of cooking (some nights you might want Thai food, some nights sushi, other nights you crave the plain home cooking you grew up on). But if I had to declare a favorite, it would probably be for the Norse myths.
My first encounter with Asgard and its inhabitants was as a small boy, no more than seven, reading the adventures of the Mighty Thor as depicted by American comics artist Jack Kirby, in stories plotted by Kirby and Stan Lee and dialogued by Stan Lee’s brother, Larry Lieber. Kirby’s Thor was powerful and good-looking, his Asgard a towering science fictional city of imposing buildings and dangerous edifices, his Odin wise and noble, his Loki a sardonic horn-helmeted creature of pure mischief. I loved Kirby’s blond hammer-wielding Thor, and I wanted to learn more about him.
I borrowed a copy of Myths of the Norsemen by Roger Lancelyn Green and read and reread it with delight and puzzlement: Asgard, in this telling, was no longer a Kirbyesque Future City but was a Viking hall and collection of buildings out on the frozen wastes; Odin the all-father was no longer gentle, wise, and irascible, but instead he was brilliant, unknowable, and dangerous; Thor was just as strong as the Mighty Thor in the comics, his hammer as powerful, but he was . . . well, honestly, not the brightest of the gods; and Loki was not evil, although he was certainly not a force for good. Loki was . . . complicated.
In addition, I learned, the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.
Had Ragnarok happened yet? Was it still to happen? I did not know then. I am not certain now.
It was the fact that the world and the story ends, and the way that it ends and is reborn, ............

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