. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . <£,<? _ Jj\ &^m^ - rJs How Loke was Punished stones in the bed of the stream andthe net only grazed him as it passedover. The gods finding the netempty hung a great stone on it, and,going back to the starting place, drewit slowly up stream again. Never,since the beginning of things, hadthere been such fishing before ! Thenoisy river rolled swiftly down tothe sea, the steep mountains roseon either side and,shut out the sunso that even at mid-day it was liketwil
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . <£,<? _ Jj\ &^m^ - rJs How Loke was Punished stones in the bed of the stream andthe net only grazed him as it passedover. The gods finding the netempty hung a great stone on it, and,going back to the starting place, drewit slowly up stream again. Never,since the beginning of things, hadthere been such fishing before ! Thenoisy river rolled swiftly down tothe sea, the steep mountains roseon either side and,shut out the sunso that even at mid-day it was liketwilight. When Loke saw the netcoming a second time and found thathe could not escape, he waited untilit was close at hand, and then with amighty leap shot over it and plungedinto a waterfall just where the riverrushed into the sea. The gods saw the great fish leapinto the air and fall into the water,and they instantly turned around and 231to-. :v \ v e,-: •: Norse Stones dragged the net toward the sea,Thor wading after it in the middleof the stream. As the net camenearer and nearer Loke saw that hemust either swim out into the seaor leap back again -over the waited until the shadow of the^net was over him, and then with amighty leap shot into the air andover the net; but Thor was watch-ing, and his strong hand closed roundthe shining fish. Loke managed toslip through Thors fingers, but Thorheld him by the tail, and that, as thestory goes, is the reason why the almons tail is so thin and the gods, glad at heart that hey had caught the slayer of Balder,changed Loke into his natural shape nd dragged him to a cavern in themountains near at hand, where theyfastened three great rocks, having p^x A t .;
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