. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . How Loke was Punished heard afar off, and then a distant rollof thunder deepening into awful pealsthat echoed and re-echoed among thehills. The gods sat silent in theirplaces, and even Loke grew flashes of lightning flamedjjthrough the hall, and made his darface more terrible to look at. Crasfollowed close upon crash until thmountains quaked, and the great halltrembled ; then came a blinding flash,and Thor stood in the midst swing-ing Mjolner, and looking
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . How Loke was Punished heard afar off, and then a distant rollof thunder deepening into awful pealsthat echoed and re-echoed among thehills. The gods sat silent in theirplaces, and even Loke grew flashes of lightning flamedjjthrough the hall, and made his darface more terrible to look at. Crasfollowed close upon crash until thmountains quaked, and the great halltrembled ; then came a blinding flash,and Thor stood in the midst swing-ing Mjolner, and looking as if hewould smite the world into frag-ments. He looked at Loke, andLoke, cowering before Thors ter-rible eyes of fire, walked out of thehall cursing ^ger as he went, andwishing that flames might break uponhis realm and devour it and now Loke, no longer a god in nature or in rank, became an outcast 227
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