(Finnish: Compendium)

Introduction
In the Beginning…….
The All-Father’s Foreboding
Asgårdsreien
Baldur’s Dream
The Building of the Wall
Darradarljod
The Dwarves
Fate
Fenrir
How Freya Gained Her Necklace
Hail Day – a prayer
The Halls of Odin
The Last Goths
The Lay of Guthorm’s Army at Ethandun
The Lay of Rogann
A Prayer
Ragnar Lodrok’s Death-Song
Sif’s Golden Hair
Sigidrifa’s Prayer
Svadi the Giant
The Sword of the Tomb
The Tale of Cat Bayun
Thor’s Hammer – Lost and Found
Thrym’s Lay
To the Gods
Vellekla
The Vision
The Waking of Angantyr
Twas the Night Before Christmas

       How it All Fits Together
         - The Nine Worlds
         - Supernatural Beings

When searching for a suitable title that would
best describe a compendium of Viking myths and
legends compiled especially for storytellers, it
was no easy task choosing a single word that
would encompass the rich and diverse anthology
that is Viking folklore and myth.

Dissapointingly (for me) the Swedish, Danish and
Norwegian translations of the word compendium
were returned as kompendium. With only one option
remaining, the Finnish translation was returned as
Tiivistelmä. And so Tiivistelmä it has become.

Like so many projects, the birth of this book has
come from of a completely separate, yet similar,
project and it has taken on a life of it’s own.

I invite the Storytellers to take their listeners on
a journey back to a time when the boundaries between
myth, legend and reality were as fluid and as
permanent as waves washing on a sandy beach.

Listeners and readers, to really benefit, you are
encouraged to engross yourself in the stories and
let your imagination run wild. Close your eyes, think
of Odin, Thor and Tolkien and let your mind walk
through the Hallowed Halls of Valhalla. Let yourself
be amazed and overawed at the magnificence
and splendour of a time long passed.

John Halsted & Paul McDaid
Abela Publishing