Padraic Colum
Author Padraic Colum, photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Padraic Colum was a prolific Irish author and playwright who wrote several collections of folktale stories for children. Although born in Ireland in 1881, he moved to America in 1914. Soon he began publishing children’s books of folklore, including 1920’s Children of Odin: Nordic Gods and Heroes, which retold the Eddas and the Volsung Saga.
Calum undertook the task of adapting folklore for young readers. Books of folklore from Greece, Celtic Britain, and Hawaii followed, and he received several retrospective Newberry Honor citations. He passed away in 1972 at the age of 90.
- Building the Wall
- Baldur's Doom
- The Boy Pu-nia and the King of the Sharks
- Brynhild in the House of Flame
- Far Away and Long Ago
- How Frey Won Gerda, the Giant Maiden, and How He Lost His Magic Sword
- Hina, the Woman in the Moon
- How Brynhild Was Won for Gunnar
- How Brock Brought Judgment on Loki
- How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How Her Loved One Was Lost to Her
- How Thor and Loki Befooled Thrym the Giant
- Heimdall and Little Hnossa: How All Things Came to Be
- Odin Faces an Evil Man
- Odin Goes to Mimir's Well: His Sacrifice for Wisdom
- Odin Wins for Men the Magic Mead
- Odin Tells to Vidar, His Silent Son, the Secret of His Doings
- The Story of the Vengeance of the Volsungs and of the Death of Sinfiotli
- The Story of Sigmund and Sinfiotli
- Sigurd at the House of the Nibelungs
- The Story of Sigmund and Signy
- The Sword Gram and the Dragon Fafnir
- Sif's Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard
- The Seven Great Deeds of Ma-ui: How Ma-ui Won a Place for Himself in the House
- The Seven Great Deeds of Ma-ui: How Ma-ui Lifted Up the Sky
- The Seven Great Deeds of Ma-ui: How Ma-ui Fished Up the Great Island
- The Seven Great Deeds of Ma-ui: How Ma-ui Snared the Sun and Made Him Go More Slowly Across the Heavens
- Sigurd's Youth
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