D'Aulaires' Book of Norse myths
By: Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire.
Contributors: D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin, 1898-
Series: New York Review children's collection
Publisher: New York Review Books; NYR Children's Collection; D'Aulaire, Ingri/ D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin/ Chabon, Michael (INT)
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Gods, Norse -- Juvenile literature; Mythology, Norse -- Juvenile literature; Giants -- Mythology -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Book of Norse myths
Notes: Originally published: Norse gods and giants. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1967.
Table of contents: title: The first gods and giants; title: The creation of the world; title: The creation of man; title: Yggdrasil, the world tree; title: Asgard and the aesir gods; title: Odin, the all-father; title: Thor, the thunder-god; title: Loki, the god of the jotun race; title: Sifs golden hair; title: Loki's monstrous brood; title: Balder, the god of light; title: Heimdall, the watchman of asgard; title: Njord, frey and freya; title: Bragi, god of poetry; title: Odin's eight-legged steed; title: The valkyries and valhalla; title: Frigg and the goddesses; title: Freya's wonderful necklace; title: Idunn's apples of youth; title: Skade, the ski-goddess; title: Frey and gerd, the jotun maiden; title: The theft of thor's hammer; title: Thor and the jotun geirrod; title: Thor and the jotun utgardsloki; title: Thor and the jotun rungnir; title: Thor and the jotun aegir; title: The death of balder; title: Loki's punishment; title: Ragnarokk, the destiny of the gods; title: A new world.