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INTRODUCTION.

The Gods of the Northern nations were not, like those of the Greeks, imagined to be immortal; they were exempted neither from pain nor death, and those even who escaped both during a series of ages, were at length to be destroyed at the last day, or as it is stiled in the Sagas, "The Twilight of the Gods:" till that time should arrive, they were supposed to dwell in Asgard, and to enjoy, in a supreme degree, those luxuries and pleasures which their uncivilized worshippers considered as the most desirable.

Balder,

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