NORSE MYTHOLOGY IV
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XXVIII – The Death of Balder
1. What did the gods no longer have time to do?
2. Who did not change?
3. Why did the Aesir worry when Balder began to be haunted by
bad dreams?
4. What must Odin do to the volva?
5. What did she tell him?
6. What did Frigg do?
7. What did the Aesir playfully do to Balder?
8. How does Loki instigate Balder’s death?
9. How do the Aesir get the ship afloat?
10.
What does Nanna do?
11.
What does Frigg ask the sons of Odin to do?
12.
Who agrees to do it?
13.
How does he avoid Garm?
14.
What does Hel say must happen for her to release
Balder?
15.
Who does not do it?
16.
Who avenged Balder’s death?
XXIX – Loki’s Punishment
1. Why was Thor missing?
2. Why was Loki jealous?
3. Why couldn’t the Aesir harm him?
4. What had Odin and Loki vowed at the beginning of time?
5. Why does Thor appear?
6. How does Odin find Loki?
7. Into what does Loki change?
8. Why doesn’t he think he will be caught?
9. How does Thor catch him?
10.
Where is Loki taken, and what punishment must he
suffer?
11.
How does Sigunn try to ease his pain?
XXX – Ragnarokk, the Destiny of the Gods
1. Why was Odin deeply worried?
2. On what was the world of the Aesir built ?
3. When had kindness disappeared?
4. What was Thor busy doing?
5. How long did winter last?
6. What does the golden cock of Asgard start?
7. What happens to Garm, Fenris, and Loki?
8. What does Nidhogg do?
9. What do the Norns stop doing?
10. Who is sailing the Nagelfar?
11. What does Surt do?
12. How long and wide is the battlefield?
13. What happens to Odin?
14. What happens to Thor?
15. How does Vidar avenge his father?
16. Who kills each other?
17. What is Frey’s only weapon?
18. What happens to the sun and moon?
19. What happens to Yggdrasil?
20. What does Surt do?
21. What is left?
22. Who comes from Hel?
23. What do the last of the Aesir do?
XXXI. A New World
1. What had sun done before she was swallowed?
2. What rose from the sea?
3. Who were Lif and Lifthrasir, and what do their names mean?
4. Where had they hidden?
5. What did people think was behind the closed doors of the
mountains?