The world: historical and actual . asturage. Wheat is raised hi thesouthern part of the kingdom, rye, oats and potatoesbeing, however, the chief products of the arable iron mines are of great value and Scandinavians of to-day can certainly boast a V 4 THE SCANDINAVIA - ?: : iigkm. Even their modernized forcr. as borrowed from Germany. the Lutheran church bem/ .^re prevalent. --rD be proud of the fullness, Iefiiteneaa and originality of their old myth stained in two collections, called theEddas. The Elder Edda is in verse and dates back ? >rk and dates fromIn those bo
The world: historical and actual . asturage. Wheat is raised hi thesouthern part of the kingdom, rye, oats and potatoesbeing, however, the chief products of the arable iron mines are of great value and Scandinavians of to-day can certainly boast a V 4 THE SCANDINAVIA - ?: : iigkm. Even their modernized forcr. as borrowed from Germany. the Lutheran church bem/ .^re prevalent. --rD be proud of the fullness, Iefiiteneaa and originality of their old myth stained in two collections, called theEddas. The Elder Edda is in verse and dates back ? >rk and dates fromIn those books preserved the religions dinavian divinities, their wars, lores, drinking boutsand various exploits. Poets find in these stories richi:.sj:-.±. t : I rerse. aon has been made of the part taken by Sweden in the early settlement of this country. It a Scandinavians, and with good rea- *eir ancestors were really the first dis- : this continent. In the ninth centnr Icelander, Gunbjom, discovered Greenland. He was the Bed. E the. atmythol - <ugly marked individual. i /in quite inde- / . The universe, accord-• and therestands Valhalla, the great hall of Odin. Thor, theThunder:: Jotunl sunshineand rain, seedtime and harvest_? ? - re pei memorials of Scandinavian is the fl. Many are the country he the name of Qreedhnd, his ac- count greemg with the name he g it Two settl - re made upon the m I illy supposed, until recently, that Gh red; but it is now le that t. ntnrotu keel of the plowed along the Amei ist as far • r, but inthe fourl -ntury came that gue, which destroyed tinplus p n, killed t of colonial enter- prise and utterly uprooted whatever may have beenanted on the- . * ,-:;?:;?.,; .-j c i ? -v r ... s i ? m m
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