Yesteryear Fiction

Viking Myths and Legends


“In the dales dwells

The prescient Dis,

From Yggdrasil’s

Ash sunk down,

Of alfen race,

Idun by name,

The youngest of Ivaldi’s

Elder children.

She ill brooked

Her descent

Under the hoar tree’s

Trunk confined.

She would not happy be

With Norvi’s daughter,

Accustomed to a pleasanter

Abode at home.”


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Viking Myths and Legends


“I am the Thunderer!

Here in my Northland,

My fastness and fortress,

Reign I forever!

“Here amid icebergs

Rule I the nations;

This is my hammer,

Miölnir the mighty;

Giants and sorcerers

Cannot withstand it!”



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Viking Myths And Legends


“First, Thor with the bent brow,

In red beard muttering low,

Darting fierce lightnings from eyeballs that glow,

Comes, while each chariot wheel

Echoes in thunder peal,

As his dread hammer shock

Makes Earth and Heaven rock,

Clouds rifting above, while Earth quakes below.”



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Viking Myths And Legends


“Great Surtur, with his burning sword,

Southward at Muspel’s gate kept ward,

And flashes of celestial flame,

Life-giving, from the fire-world came.”


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