. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . attlesof the gods and the giants that hadbeen repeated for hundreds of yearsby Norse firesides in the long winterer evening were brought together bysome unknown man in Iceland, andwere known henceforth as the Elder ^^^^_^^^^ ^ ihi -r Norse Stones Edda; and a hundred years laterSnorre Sturleson retold the same oldstories, with others equally marvel-lous, in the Younger Edda. Theseancient books, which a brave andnoble race carried in its heart throughall its wide wand
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . attlesof the gods and the giants that hadbeen repeated for hundreds of yearsby Norse firesides in the long winterer evening were brought together bysome unknown man in Iceland, andwere known henceforth as the Elder ^^^^_^^^^ ^ ihi -r Norse Stones Edda; and a hundred years laterSnorre Sturleson retold the same oldstories, with others equally marvel-lous, in the Younger Edda. Theseancient books, which a brave andnoble race carried in its heart throughall its wide wanderings and conquests,take one back to the beginning oftime, and tell of the birth of theworlds and the coming of the godsto rule over them. Norway faces the sea with a lineof cliffs so massive that their founda-tions seem everlasting. Islands with-out number rise out of the tossingwaves ; the deep, tranquil waters ofthe fjords, overhung with fir-coveredmountains, and bright at night withthe quenchless splendour of the stars,flow through narrow channels to theouter ocean; and against the skygreat mountains stand vast and im-.
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