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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

The Legend of the King’s Three Sons

Helga

Thorstein

CHAPTER I. HOW THORSTEIN LOST HIS KINGDOM.

CHAPTER II. HIS ARRIVAL AT THE GIANT’S CASTLE.

CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERY OF THE LOCKED ROOM.

CHAPTER IV. HOW THORSTEIN’S KIND ACTIONS RECEIVED THEIR REWARD.

Sigurd

CHAPTER I. SIGURD FINDS A FRIEND IN HIS STEPMOTHER.

CHAPTER II. HE WRESTLES WITH THE GIANT SISTERS.

CHAPTER III. HIS MEETING WITH HELGA.

CHAPTER IV. HIS ESCAPE ON THE WONDERFUL HORSE GULLFAXI.

Lineik and Laufey

The Five Brothers

Hermod and Hadvör

Ingebjörg

Hans

CHAPTER I. HANS STARTS ON HIS TRAVELS.

CHAPTER II. HIS WONDERFUL ADVENTURES, AND HOW HE RETURNED GOOD FOR EVIL.

The Giantess and the Granite Boat

Greybeard

CHAPTER I. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF GEIR.

CHAPTER II. HOW GREYBEARD OUTWITTED THE KING AND WON PRINCESS SIGRID.

Litill, Tritill, the Birds, and the Peasant Lad

Laughing Ingibjörg

CHAPTER I. THORWALD AND INGIBJÖRG ARE CRUELLY TREATED BY THEIR STEPMOTHER, WHO TRIES TO GET RID OF THEM.

CHAPTER II. HOW THORWALD AND INGIBJÖRG FOUND THEMSELVES AT THE WITCH’S ISLAND, AND WHAT THEY DID.

CHAPTER III. THEIR FURTHER ADVENTURES AND ESCAPE.

CHAPTER IV. THE KING’S RETURN, AND QUEEN GUDA’S RELEASE FROM THE WITCH’S THRALL.

The Three Peasant Maidens

CHAPTER I. HOW QUEEN HERTHA FELL FROM HER HIGH ESTATE.

CHAPTER II. WHAT HAD BEFALLEN THE TWO LITTLE PRINCES AND THEIR SISTER.

CHAPTER III. OLGA’S COURAGE RESCUES HER BROTHERS, QUEEN HERTHA IS RESTORED TO HER HUSBAND, AND THE PARENTS RECOVER THEIR CHILDREN.

The Fair and the Dark Isolde

CHAPTER I. DEATH OF THE QUEEN. THE KING REMARRIES, AND PROCEEDS ON A TOUR THROUGH HIS KINGDOM.

CHAPTER II. WHAT BEFALLS “FAIR ISOLDE” AFTER HER FATHER HAS GONE.

CHAPTER III. “FAIR ISOLDE” ESCAPES, AND DISGUISES HERSELF.

CHAPTER IV. FERTRAM FALLS UNDER A SPELL, AND IS BETROTHED TO “DARK ISOLDE.”

CHAPTER V. THE SPELL IS BROKEN, AND THE WICKED QUEEN’S DESIGNS ARE FRUSTRATED.

Prince Hlini

Fertram and Hildur