. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . • • ™ji. The Death of Balder youth and genius vanished out ofAsgard forever. Balder was the most god-like ofall the gods, because he was thepurest and the best. Wherever hewent his coming was like the comingof sunshine, and all the beauty ofsummer was but the shining of hisface. When mens hearts were whitelike the light, and their lives clearas the day, it was because Balder waslooking down upon them with thosesoft, clear eyes that were open win-dows to the soul of
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . • • ™ji. The Death of Balder youth and genius vanished out ofAsgard forever. Balder was the most god-like ofall the gods, because he was thepurest and the best. Wherever hewent his coming was like the comingof sunshine, and all the beauty ofsummer was but the shining of hisface. When mens hearts were whitelike the light, and their lives clearas the day, it was because Balder waslooking down upon them with thosesoft, clear eyes that were open win-dows to the soul of God. He hadalways lived in such a glow of fe\i brightness that no darkness had evertouched him ; but one morning, afterIdun and Brage had gone, Baldersface was sad and troubled. Hewalked slowly from room to room inhis palace Breidablik, stainless as the sky when April showers have swept 199. Norse Stories across it because no impure thinghad ever crossed the threshold, andhis eyes were heavy with sorrow. Inthe night terrible dreams had brokenhis sleep, and made it a long air seemed to be full of awfulchanges for him, and for all the knew in his soul that the shadowof the last great day was sweepingon; as he looked out and saw theworlds lying in light and beauty,the fields yellow with waving grain,the deep fiords flashing back the sun-beams from their clear depths, theverdure clothing the loftiest moun-tains, and knew that over all thisdarkness and desolation would come,with silence of reapers and birds,with fading of leaf and flower, agreat sorrow fell on his heart. Balder could bear the burden nolonger. He went out, called all the 200 , w -•: .; The Death of Balder gods together, and told them the ter-rible dreams of the night. Everyface was heavy with care. Thedeath of Balder would be like thegoing out of the sun, and after along, sad council the g
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