Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland, Vol. 3

part in this war, and it is necessary to investigate whether our mythic

records have preserved traces of the satisfaction of this demand in regard to the mythological epic.

As his name indicates, Orvandel was a celebrated archer. That _Ör-_ in Orvandel, in heathen times, was conceived to be the word _ör_, "arrow"--though this meaning does not therefore need to be the...