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		<title>1-9 The All-Father&#8217;s Forebodings: How He Leaves Asgard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two ravens had Odin All-Father; Hugin and Munin were their names; they flew through all the worlds every day, and coming back to Asgard they would light on Odin&#8217;s shoulders and tell him of all the things they had seen and heard.  And once a day passed without the ravens coming back.  Then Odin, standing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1-8 Heimdall and Little Hnossa: How All Things Came to Be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hnossa, the child of Freya and the lost Odur, was the youngest of all the Dwellers in Asgard.  And because it had been prophesied that the child would bring her father and her mother together, little Hnossa was often taken without the City of the Gods to stand by Bifroest, the Rainbow Bridge, so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1-7 How Frey Won Gerda, the Giant Maiden, and How He Lost His Magic Sword</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frey, chief of the Vanir, longed to have sight of his sister who had been from Asgard for so long.  (You must know that this happened during the time when Freya was wandering through the world, seeking her husband, the lost Odur.)  Now there was in Asgard a place from which one could overlook the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bigmonkeytechnologies.com/2010/03/1-7-how-frey-won-gerda-the-giant-maiden-and-how-he-lost-his-magic-sword/</link>
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		<title>1-6 How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How Her Loved One Was Lost to Her</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Loki went through Asgard silent and with head bent, and the Dwellers in Asgard said one unto the other, &#8220;This will teach Loki to work no more mischief.&#8221;  They did not know that what Loki had done had sown the seeds of mischief and that these seeds were to sprout up and bring sorrow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1-5 How Brock Brought Judgment on Loki</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was then that Loki, with the wish of making the Aesir and the Vanir friendly to him once more, brought out the wonderful things he had gained from the Dwarfs&#8211;the spear Gungnir and the boat Skidbladnir.  The Aesir and the Vanir marveled at things so wonderful.  Loki gave the spear as a gift to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1-4 Sif&#8217;s Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All who dwelt in Asgard, the Aesir and the Asyniur, who were the Gods and the Goddesses, and the Vanir, who were the friends of the Gods and the Goddesses, were wroth with Loki.  It was no wonder they were wroth with him, for he had let the Giant Thiassi carry off Iduna and her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1-3 Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Asgard there was a garden, and in that garden there grew a tree, and on that tree there grew shining apples.  Thou knowst, O well-loved one, that every day that passes makes us older and brings us to that day when we will be bent and feeble, gray-headed and weak-eyed.  But those shining apples [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bigmonkeytechnologies.com/2010/03/1-3-iduna-and-her-apples-how-loki-put-the-gods-in-danger/</link>
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		<title>1-2 The Building of the Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Always there had been war between the Giants and the Gods&#8211;between the Giants who would have destroyed the world and the race of men, and the Gods who would have protected the race of men and would have made the world more beautiful. There are many stories to be told about the Gods, but the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bigmonkeytechnologies.com/2010/03/1-2-the-building-of-the-wall/</link>
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		<title>1-1 Far Away and Long Ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once there was another Sun and another Moon; a different Sun and a different Moon from the ones we see now.  Sol was the name of that Sun and Mani was the name of that Moon.  But always behind Sol and Mani wolves went, a wolf behind each.  The wolves caught on them at last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bigmonkeytechnologies.com/2010/03/1-1-far-away-and-long-ago/</link>
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		<title>Children of Odin &#8211; Contents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PART I The Dwellers in Asgard 1. Far Away and Long Ago 2. The Building of the Wall 3. Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger 4. Sif&#8217;s Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard 5. How Brock Brought Judgment on Loki 6. How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several texts are presented relating to tales and myths of Norse Mythology. The Children of Odin &#8211; The Book of Northern Myths The Kalevala &#8211; The Epic Poem of Finland Tegner&#8217;s Drapa &#8211; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]></description>
		<link>http://bigmonkeytechnologies.com/2010/03/norse/</link>
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		<title>The Children of Odin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths By Padraic Colum Illustrated by Willy Pogany Master storyteller Padraic Colum&#8217;s rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the adventures of the gods and goddesses who lived in the Northern paradise of Asgard before the dawn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bigmonkeytechnologies.com/2010/03/the-children-of-odin/</link>
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