. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . The Making of the World movable, as if from eternity to eter-nity. No Norseman, steering hisadventurous galley along these rockyshores, seeing, perhaps, the mightyrush of the polar seas against theNorth Cape, and hearing the longreverberation of Thors hammer rollfrom mountain peak to mountainpeak, would have believed that thesethings had not been as he saw themfrom the very beginning, if the Ed-das, wiser than any wisdom of man,had not told him of a time wheneven th
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . The Making of the World movable, as if from eternity to eter-nity. No Norseman, steering hisadventurous galley along these rockyshores, seeing, perhaps, the mightyrush of the polar seas against theNorth Cape, and hearing the longreverberation of Thors hammer rollfrom mountain peak to mountainpeak, would have believed that thesethings had not been as he saw themfrom the very beginning, if the Ed-das, wiser than any wisdom of man,had not told him of a time wheneven the gods had not begun tolive, and in the vast space whereno worlds hung and no heavensshone there was nothing but the un-seen spirit of the great All-father,solitary and silent in the depths. Not even the Eddas are able toreveal his thoughts or to describe hislife in the awful solitariness of a si- ~~TB J Norse Stories lent universe; they can only declarethat in his own good time he beganto build the worlds, and far in thenorth Niflheim rose out of the depths,the land of eternal winter wrapped infogs and mists, and far in th
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