Chapter XXVIII (3)

VOLSUNG (vol´so͝ong). Saga of, 225, 292;
birth of, 52, 226;
career and death of, 225–230;
descendants of, 231, 235, 238, 261.

VÖLUND (vēl-oond). Story of the smith, 163–165, 287.

VÖLUNDARHAUS (vēl´oond-ar-hous’). Maze, 164;
compared to Cretan labyrinth, 287.

VON. River from Fenris’s mouth, 92.

VÖR (vēr). Same as Faith, 53.

VROU-ELDE (vrou-eld´e). Same as Frigga, 59.

VROU-ELDEN-STRAAT. Milky Way in Holland, 59.

VULCAN. Northern equivalents for, 277, 285, 287, 291.

VULDER (vo͝ol´der). Same as Uller, 132.

WAGNER. Four operas from Volsunga Saga, 225.

WAIN. Same as Great Bear, 36.

WANDERER. Same as Odin, 37.

WAVES. Ægir’s daughters, 173, 288.

WEDNESDAY. Sacred to Odin, 45.

WELDEGG. King of East Saxony, 44.

WEREWOLF. Sigmund a, 232.

WESER (vā´zer). Rats drowned in, 33.

WEST SAXONY. Conquered by Odin, 44.

WESTERBURG. Ilse loves knight of the, 215.

WESTRI (wes´trē). Dwarf supporting heavenly vault, 14.

WHITE LADY. Last appearance of, 58, 59.

WILD HUNT. Leaders of, 30, 32, 59, 132.

WILD HUNTSMAN, 30, 32.

WILL-O’-THE-WISP. Mediæval superstition concerning, 222.

WIND. Waves play with, 173.

WINGI (wing´ē). Same as Knefrud, 257.

WINILERS (win´i-lerz). Story of Vandals and, 49, 280.

WINTER. Odin supplanted by, 42.

WODE (wō´da). Same as Frigga, 59.

WODEN. Same as Odin, 23, 30, 45.

WODEN’S DAY. Same as Wednesday, 45.

WOOD MAIDENS. Elves known as, 223.

WUOTAN (wō´tan). Same as Odin, 23, 59.

WURD (wo͝ord). Same as Urd, 155.

WYRD (wērd). Mother of Norns, 148, 149.

YDALIR (ē-däl´ir). Abode of Uller, 131.

YGGDRASIL (ig´drȧ-sil). Creation of, 19;
stags pasture on, 20;
assembly under, 21;
spear from, 37;
Odin hangs from, 39;
Thor goes to, 62;
Idun falls from, 105;
Bifröst reaches to, 137;
Giallar-horn hung on, 138;
Norns dwell under, 154;
Nidhug eats, 169, 265;
consumed, 269;
comparison, 283.

YMIR (ē´mir). Giant of fire and ice, 11;
sleep of, 12;
death of, 12, 210;
earth created from, 13;
dwarfs from, 17, 217, 277;
Fornjotnr same as, 199, 212;
comparisons, 275, 277.

YOUNGER EDDA. Gylfi’s delusion described in the, 44.

YULE. Month and festival of, 118, 119.

YULE LOG, 121.

YULE-TIDE, 82, 99.

ZEPHYRUS (zef´i-rus). Frey like, 284.

ZEUS (zūs). Northern equivalents for, 280.

ZIU (zū). Same as Tyr, 84.

ZIUSBURG (zūz´berg). Same as Augsburg, 84.

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