. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Chapter X. How Thor found his Hammer THE frost-giants were always try-ing to get into Asgard. Formore than half the year they held theworld in their grasp, locking up thestreams in their rocky beds, hushingtheir music and the music of the birdsas well, and leaving nothing but awild waste of desolation under thecold sky. They hated the warm sun-shine which stirred the wild flowersout of their sleep, and clothed thesteep mountains with verdure, andset all the birds a-
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Chapter X. How Thor found his Hammer THE frost-giants were always try-ing to get into Asgard. Formore than half the year they held theworld in their grasp, locking up thestreams in their rocky beds, hushingtheir music and the music of the birdsas well, and leaving nothing but awild waste of desolation under thecold sky. They hated the warm sun-shine which stirred the wild flowersout of their sleep, and clothed thesteep mountains with verdure, andset all the birds a-singing in theswaying tree-tops. They hated thebeautiful god Balder, with whosepresence summer came back to the ice-bound earth, and, above all, they 127 Y Y : TiiN^. ^ K,i v\
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