. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . %x. -JJ ,i The Twilight of the Gods forgot to love their little children,and brothers struck each other downas if they were the bitterest enemies. Three years passed without onebreath of the warm south wind orthe blossoming of a single flower,and three other years darker andcolder succeeded them. A savagejoy filled the hearts of the frost-giants, and they shook their clenchedhands at Asgard as if they had mas-tered the gods at last. On the earththere was nothing but
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . %x. -JJ ,i The Twilight of the Gods forgot to love their little children,and brothers struck each other downas if they were the bitterest enemies. Three years passed without onebreath of the warm south wind orthe blossoming of a single flower,and three other years darker andcolder succeeded them. A savagejoy filled the hearts of the frost-giants, and they shook their clenchedhands at Asgard as if they had mas-tered the gods at last. On the earththere was nothing but silence anddespair, and among the gods only j)patient waiting for the end. One jlday, as the sun rose dim and cold,a deep howl echoed through the sky,and a great wolf sprang up from theunderworld and leaped vainly after day long, through the frosty air,that terrible cry was heard, and allint wolf ran close behind,
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