. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . -JJ ,i The Twilight of the Gods forgot to love their little children,and brothers struck each other downas if they were the bitterest enemies. Three years passed without onebreath of the warm south wind orthe blossoming of a single flower,and three other years darker andcolder succeeded them. A savagejoy filled the hearts of the frost-giants, and they shook their clenchedhands at Asgard as if they had mas-tered the gods at last. On the earththere was nothing but sil
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . -JJ ,i The Twilight of the Gods forgot to love their little children,and brothers struck each other downas if they were the bitterest enemies. Three years passed without onebreath of the warm south wind orthe blossoming of a single flower,and three other years darker andcolder succeeded them. A savagejoy filled the hearts of the frost-giants, and they shook their clenchedhands at Asgard as if they had mas-tered the gods at last. On the earththere was nothing but silence anddespair, and among the gods only j)patient waiting for the end. One jlday, as the sun rose dim and cold,a deep howl echoed through the sky,and a great wolf sprang up from theunderworld and leaped vainly after day long, through the frosty air,that terrible cry was heard, and allint wolf ran close behind,. f Norse Stones 5v> / i slowly gaining in the chase. At last,as the sun went down over the snow-covered mountains, the wolf, with amighty spring, reached and devouredit. The glow upon the hills wentout in blackness; it was the last sun-set. Faint and colourless the moonrose, and another howl filled theheavens as a second wolf sprangupon her track, ran swiftly behind,and devoured her also. Then camean awful darkness over all as, one byone, the stars fell from heaven, andblackness and whirling snow wrappedall things in their folds. The endhad come; the last great battle wasto be fought; Ragnarok, the Twi-light of the Gods, was at hand. Suddenly a strange sound brokein upon the darkness and was heardthroughout all the worlds ; on a loftyheight the eagle Egder struck his ?na*
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