Norse Mythology

by Charles Kovacs

Overview

A retelling of the stories of Norse mythology as recommended for the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Class 4 (age 9-10). Includes myths on Creation, Odin and Mimir, Thor and Thialfi, Idun, Sif and Loki.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782507017
Publisher:	Floris Books
Publication date:	04/30/2020
Series:	Waldorf Education Resources
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Charles Kovacs was born in Austria. He left his native country in 1938 at the time of the Anschluss and joined the British Army in East Africa. After the War, he settled in Britain, and in 1956 he took over a class at the Rudolf Steiner School in Edinburgh, where he remained a class teacher until his retirement in 1976. He died in 2001. His extensive lesson notes have been a useful and inspiring resource material for many teachers. He is the author of Parsifal and the Search for the Grail (2002), The Age of Revolution (2003), Ancient Greece (2004), The Age of Discovery (2004), Ancient Rome (2005), Botany (2005) and Muscles and Bones (2006).

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

The Stories of the Gods

1 The Creation 13

2 Yggdrasil 17

3 Human Beings Are Made 19

4 Odin and Mimir 21

5 Thor and Thialfi 23

6 Freya's Necklace 26

7 The Valkyries 29

8 The Story of Idun 31

9 The Story of Sif's Hair 37

10 The Making of Miolnir 41

11 Loki's Punishment 43

12 Frey and Gerda 46

13 Thor and Thrym 51

14 Loki's Children 55

15 Thor and the giants 60

16 Thor and Hrungnir 67

17 Thor and Hymir 72

18 Thor and Geirod 78

19 Odin's Justice 84

The Sagas

20 The Story of the Nibelung 88

21 The Story of Gudrune 124

22 The Story of Frithiof 148

23 The Story of Kvasir 163

The Twilight of the Gods

24 The Death of Baldur 172

25 Loki's Punishment 178

26 Ragnarok 181