The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths
By Padraic Colum
Length6h 45m
About this audiobook
From master storyteller Padriac Colum, winner of a Newbery Honor for The Golden Fleece, comes a collection of fifteen timeless tales inspired by Norse mythology. (Amazon)
Audiobook details
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length6 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 15, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART I THE DWELLERS IN ASGARD
2FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO
3THE BUILDING OF THE WALL
4IDUNA AND HER APPLES: HOW LOKI PUT THE GODS IN DANGER
5SIF'S GOLDEN HAIR: HOW LOKI WROUGHT MISCHIEF IN ASGARD
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6HOW BROCK BROUGHT JUDGMENT ON LOKI
7HOW FREYA GAINED HER NECKLACE AND HOW HER LOVED ONE WAS LOST TO HER
8HOW FREY WON GERDA, THE GIANT MAIDEN, AND HOW HE LOST HIS MAGIC SWORD
9HEIMDALL AND LITTLE HNOSSA: HOW ALL THINGS CAME TO BE
10THE ALL-FATHER'S FOREBODINGS: HOW HE LEAVES ASGARD
11PART II ODIN THE WANDERER
12ODIN GOES TO MIMIR'S WELL: HIS SACRIFICE FOR WISDOM
13ODIN FACES AN EVIL MAN
14ODIN WINS FOR MEN THE MAGIC MEAD
15ODIN TELLS TO VIDAR, HIS SILENT SON, THE SECRET OF HIS DOINGS
16THOR AND LOKI IN THE GIANTS' CITY
17HOW THOR AND LOKI BEFOOLED THRYM THE GIANT
18ÆGIR'S FEAST: HOW THOR TRIUMPHED
19THE DWARF'S HOARD, AND THE CURSE THAT IT BROUGHT
20PART III THE WITCH'S HEART
21FOREBODING IN ASGARD
22LOKI THE BETRAYER
23LOKI AGAINST THE ÆSIR
24THE VALKYRIE
25THE CHILDREN OF LOKI
26BALDUR'S DOOM
27LOKI'S PUNISHMENT
28PART IV THE SWORD OF THE VOLSUNGS AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
29SIGURD'S YOUTH
30THE SWORD GRAM AND THE DRAGON FAFNIR
31THE DRAGON'S BLOOD
32THE STORY OF SIGMUND AND SIGNY
33THE STORY OF SIGMUND AND SINFIOTLI
34THE STORY OF THE VENGEANCE OF THE VOLSUNGS AND OF THE DEATH OF SINFIOTLI
35BRYNHILD IN THE HOUSE OF FLAME
36SIGURD AT THE HOUSE OF THE NIBELUNGS
37HOW BRYNHILD WAS WON FOR GUNNAR
38THE DEATH OF SIGURD
39THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
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