them over earth and heaven and all the
underworld.

The mighty Tree of Life withered and fell; the golden halls of Asgard
melted away; the green things of earth turned black, and still the
fire raged, until the whole world, burnt to a cinder, sank beneath the
waves of the sea.

Thus did the End of All Things come about.

But because the End of All Things is also very often the Beginning of
Others, the Northmen say that, after many long years, the old Earth
rose again, clean and pure and bright from her long cleansing
underneath the sea. And in the sky above a daughter of Sol again drove
her sun-chariot, and smiled upon the earth, so that it grew young and
fresh and green again.

And when this came to pass, a man and a woman, who, sunk in sleep in
the depths of a forest, had escaped the universal destruction, came
forth and took possession of the sweet green lands, for themselves and
for their children for ever.

"So perish the old Gods!
But out of the sea of Time
Rises a new land of song.
Fairer than the old.
Over is meadows green
Walk the young bards and sing.

Build it again,
O ye bards,
Fairer than before!
Ye fathers of the new race,
Feed upon morning dew,
Sing the new Song of Love!

The law of force is dead!
The law of love prevails!
Thor, the thunderer,
Shall rule the earth no more,
No more, with threats,
Challenge the meek Christ.

Sing no more,
O ye bards of the North,
Of Vikings and of Jarls!
Of the days of Eld
Preserve the freedom only,
Not the deeds of blood."

LONGFELLOW.

PRONOUNCING INDEX OF PROPER NAMES

(_a as in hate; e as in tea; o as in note; ae as in arm; e
as in merit_)

Transcriber's Note: [=oo] represents two 'o's with a line on top. There
is no Unicode representation for the letter.

These letters can be represented only in Unicode. Correct letters are
provided in the Unicode text.

AEgir (a'jir)

Agnar (ag'nar)

Andvari (aend'vae-re)

Angantyr (aen-gaen'ter)

Angurvadel (aen-gur-vae'del)

Angur-boda (aen-gur-bo'da)

Asa (a'sa)

Asgard (as'gaerd)

Ask (aesk)

Atli (at'le)

Balder (baul'der)

Baugi (bow'ge)

Bele (be-la')

Bjoern (byern)

Bragi (brae'ge)

Branstock (bran'stok)

Bredi (bre'de)

Brock (brock)

Brunhild (br[=oo]n'hild)

Draupnir (drowp'nir)

Elli (el'le)

Ellida (el-li'da)

Embla (em'b