{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml13_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml13_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml13_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/tml/tml13.htm","summary":"This is a chapter from Donald A. Mackenzie's 1912 retelling of Norse/Germanic mythology, drawn from the Eddic tradition and presenting the mythological \"first great war in the world\" \u2014 the conflict between the Aesir gods (Odin's clan) and the Vanir gods. The central narrative follows two interlocking conflicts: the burning of Aurboda-Gulveig, a disguised witch whose triple death and resurrection causes a schism between the divine clans, and the subsequent war in which the Vanir, led by Njord, defeat and expel the Aesir from Asgard through a bold infiltration strategy. Mackenzie weaves in the story of the mortal hero Hadding \u2014 son of the slain king Halfdan \u2014 who is rescued, empowered, and then imperiled by Odin and Loke respectively, linking divine politics to earthly tribal warfare. The work is distinctive for its euhemeristic, saga-like treatment: it presents the gods as powerful but fallible figures locked in dynastic struggles, with the mythological war serving as an origin story for human conflict. Written as popular mythology for a general Edwardian audience, it synthesizes Scandinavian and Germanic sources with a narrative confidence that sometimes papers over scholarly uncertainty about the original myths. Readers interested in Norse mythology, the Aesir-Vanir war, or early 20th-century comparative mythology will find this accessible but interpretively opinionated.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Teutonic Myth and Legend: Chapter VIII. Fall of Asgard","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","translated_text":null,"word_count":2966}