. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Odins Search for Wisdom wonderful circle of life. One rootit sent deep down into the sightlessdepths of Hel, where the dead lived ;another it fastened firmly in Jotun-heim, the dreary home of the giants;and with the third it grasped Mid-gard, the dwelling-place of men. Ser-pents and all kinds of worms gnawedcontinually at its roots, but were neverable to destroy them. Its branchesspread out over the whole earth, andthe topmost boughs swayed in theclear air of Asgard
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Odins Search for Wisdom wonderful circle of life. One rootit sent deep down into the sightlessdepths of Hel, where the dead lived ;another it fastened firmly in Jotun-heim, the dreary home of the giants;and with the third it grasped Mid-gard, the dwelling-place of men. Ser-pents and all kinds of worms gnawedcontinually at its roots, but were neverable to destroy them. Its branchesspread out over the whole earth, andthe topmost boughs swayed in theclear air of Asgard itself, rustlingagainst the Valhal, the home of theheroes who had done great deeds ordied manfully in battle. At the footof the tree sat the three Norns,wonder-ful spinners of fate, who weave thethread of every mans life, making it|what they will ; and a strange weav-ing it often was, cut off when the pat-tern was just beinning to show itself
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