. The story of the German Iliad : a school reader for the sixth and seventh grades . -^?v^/i^/^ry^^. APPENDIX. NiBELUNGEN LiED, nebel-oongeri leet (the Lay of the Chil-dren of the Mist). A grand old German poem which maywell be compared with the Iliad of the Greeks.—JamesBaldwin. Odin, ddin (the All-Father). Odin is chief of the Norsegods. The word is another form of Woden, and from it isderived our word Wednesday (Wodens day). Accordingto the solar theory of the origin of the myths, Odin is thelife-giving breath or air of heaven. He is the same as Zeus(zuse) of the Greeks, and perhaps the Jup
. The story of the German Iliad : a school reader for the sixth and seventh grades . -^?v^/i^/^ry^^. APPENDIX. NiBELUNGEN LiED, nebel-oongeri leet (the Lay of the Chil-dren of the Mist). A grand old German poem which maywell be compared with the Iliad of the Greeks.—JamesBaldwin. Odin, ddin (the All-Father). Odin is chief of the Norsegods. The word is another form of Woden, and from it isderived our word Wednesday (Wodens day). Accordingto the solar theory of the origin of the myths, Odin is thelife-giving breath or air of heaven. He is the same as Zeus(zuse) of the Greeks, and perhaps the Jupiter of the is the giver of rain and the protector of sailors. Tworavens, Thought and Memory, sat on his shoulders andbrought him news of what was passing in the world trace of the worship of Odin survives to the present a leader of souls he corresponds to Mercury or had one great eye (the sun) in the middle of his fore-head, and so is often compared with Cyclops. HoENiR, hoenir or hdnir (light). Hoenir was one of thethree most ancient gods. He rejoiced in
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