. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Norse Stories Asgard, made a resting place for her-self among the massive branches ofYgdrasil, and there every eveningcame Brage, and sang so sweetly thatthe birds stopped to listen, and eventhe Norns, those implacable sistersat the foot of the tree, were softenedby the melody. But poetry cannotchange the purposes of fate, and oneevening no song was heard of Brageior birds, the leaves of the world-treeIhung withered and lifeless on thebranches, and the fountain from
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Norse Stories Asgard, made a resting place for her-self among the massive branches ofYgdrasil, and there every eveningcame Brage, and sang so sweetly thatthe birds stopped to listen, and eventhe Norns, those implacable sistersat the foot of the tree, were softenedby the melody. But poetry cannotchange the purposes of fate, and oneevening no song was heard of Brageior birds, the leaves of the world-treeIhung withered and lifeless on thebranches, and the fountain fromwhich they had daily been sprinkledwas dry at last. I dun had fallen intoithe dark valley of death, and whenJBrage, Heimdal, and Loke went toquestion her about the future shecould answer them only with would not leave his beautifulwife alone amid the dim shades that crowded the dreary valley, and so 198
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