CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I.— THE LAND. 



Recent Habitation of Norway — The Glacial Era and its 

 Efi'ects— The Island Rampart — The Hills — Remains of 

 Ancient Glaciers — The Fjords — The ' Norwegian Canal ' 

 — General Conformation of the Country — Snowfields — 

 Waterfalls — Forests, ..... 



CHAPTER II.— THE PEOPLE. 



Theory of the Origin of the Aryans in Scandinavia — Traces 

 of Prehistoric Life : Ship - building, House - building — 

 Homesteads — Primitive Customs — The Midsummer Fire, 



CHAPTER IIL— SEAFARING. 



Ship-building in the Viking Age — Rise of the Viking Age — 

 The Norsemen in Ireland — The Vikings in Continental 

 Europe — The Swedes in Russia, . . . .60 



CHAPTER IV.— THE EDDA AND ITS MYTHOLOGY. 



Norse Colonies and Discoveries in the Faroes, in Iceland, in 

 Greenland and America — The ' Greater Scandinavia ' of 

 the Ninth and Tenth Centuries — Origin of Scandinavian 

 Literature — Old Teutonic Metre — The Eddie or Poetical 

 Literature — The Mythology of the Edda — -The Jotuns 

 — Thor — Frey — Balder — Odin — The Valkyriur — Lesser 

 Divinities, ....... 83 



