Teutonic Myth and Legend

An Introduction to the Eddar & Sagas Beowulf The Vibelungenlied etc

By Donald A. MacKenzie 

Published by The Gresham Publishing Company Limited, London, no date but 1912

First Edition

With a colour frontispiece with the original tissue guard, and three further full page colour one-sided plates, and a 31 black and white full page one-sided plates.  

Contents are:

Chapter I. Story of Creation

Chapter II. The Nine Worlds

Chapter III. The Deeds of Odin

Chapter IV. How Evil entered Asgard

Chapter V. The Winter War

Chapter VI. Triumph of Love

Chapter VII. The Lost Sword of Victory

Chapter VIII. Fall of Asgard

Chapter IX. The Gods Reconciled

Chapter X. Loke's Evil Progeny

Chapter XI. Thor's Great Fishing

Chapter XII. The City of Enchantments

Chapter XIII. Thor in Peril

Chapter XIV. The Great Stone Giant

Chapter XV. Balder the Beautiful

Chapter XVI. The Binding of Loke

Chapter XVII. The Dusk of the Gods

Chapter XVIII. The Coming of Beowulf

Chapter XIX. Conflict with Demons

Chapter XX. Beowulf and the Dragon

Chapter XXI. Hother and Balder

Chapter XXII. The Traditional Hamlet

Chapter XXIII. Hamlet's Storm-mill

Chapter XXIV. Land of the Not-dead and many Marvels

Chapter XXV. The Doom of the Volsungs

Chapter XXVI. How Sigmund was Avenged

Chapter XXVII. Helgi Hundingsbane

Chapter XXVIII. Sigurd the Dragon Slayer

Chapter XXIX Brynhild and Gudrun

Chapter XXX. The Last of the Volsungs

Chapter XXXI. Gudrun's Vengeance

Chapter XXXII. Siegfried and the Nibelungs

Chapter XXXIII. The Promise of Kriemhild

Chapter XXXIV. How Brunhild and Kriemhild were won

Chapter XXXV. The Betrayal of Siegfried

Chapter XXXVI. The Nibelungen Tragedy

Chapter XXXVII. Dietrich of Bern

Chapter XXXVIII. The Land of Giants

Chapter XXXIX. The Wonderful Rose Garden

Chapter XL. Virginal, Queen of the Mountains

Chapter XLI. Dietrich in Exile

Chapter XLII. The King's Homecoming

There is some shelfwear, the spine covering is worn/split at some edges, and the top and bottom of the spine is worn. There is very light scattered foxing to the first and last three leaves. There are no previous owners' names or inscriptions. The plates are bright, fresh and crisp - pristine. There are no missing, stained, damaged, creased or loose pages. The block and binding are solid. It is complete and original.

Measures 16cm x 22cm x 5.5cm.