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Copyright © 1967 by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire

Copyright © renewed 1995 by Nils Daulaire and Per Ola d’Aulaire

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Originally published as Norse Gods and Giants

Published in the United States of America by The New York Review of Books

The authors are grateful for the assistance of Odd Nordland, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Nordic Languages and Literature at Oslo University, Oslo, Norway.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

d’Aulaire, Ingri, 1904-[Norse gods and giants] d’Aulaires’ Book of Norse myths / Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire. p. cm.—(New York Review children’s collection)

Originally published: Norse gods and giants. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1967.

ISBN 1-59017-125-X (alk. paper)

1. Gods, Norse—Juvenile literature. 2. Mythology, Norse—Juvenile literature. 3. Giants—Mythology—Juvenile literature. I. Title: Book of Norse myths. II. d’Aulaire, Edgar Parin, 1898- III. Title. IV. Series. BL860.D355 2005 293’13-dc22 2004029214

ISBN 978-1-68137-789-6

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