. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . How Thor fought the Giant of hospitality must be respected evenwith a drunken braggart. So Freyj;filled his horn again and again, untihe roared out in a drunken fury I 11 drink every drop of wine inAsgard before I leave. This boast made the gods, already)weary of his boasting, indignant, andthey called on Thor to rid them ofthe braggart. The God of Thun-der came striding into the hall swing-ing his mighty hammer, with angeron his brow and in his eye, to hearthe gods
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . How Thor fought the Giant of hospitality must be respected evenwith a drunken braggart. So Freyj;filled his horn again and again, untihe roared out in a drunken fury I 11 drink every drop of wine inAsgard before I leave. This boast made the gods, already)weary of his boasting, indignant, andthey called on Thor to rid them ofthe braggart. The God of Thun-der came striding into the hall swing-ing his mighty hammer, with angeron his brow and in his eye, to hearthe gods insulted under the very rooiof Asgard. Why does this stupid giant sithere in Asgard drinking our wine asif he were a god ? shouted Thor,glaring at Hrungner as if he wouldsmite him on the spot; but Hrung-ner, full of drunken courage, glaredback at 7 1 Norse Stories I came here with Odin, hegrowled, fc and the hospitality of thegods will suffer more than I if a handis laid on me. You may rue that hospitality be-fore you are out of Asgard, was theangry reply of Thor. Small honour to you if you slayme here unarmed and solitary ; if you^want to prove your boasted valourImeet me face to face at it was in me to leave myshield and flint-stone at home ; had Ithose weapons I would challenge youto fight me here and now, but if youkill me unarmed I proclaim you atoward in the face of all Asgard. I will meet you, braggart, whenand where you will, hotly retortedThor, whom no giant had ever be-fore challenged to a holmgang, orsingle combat. And Hrungner got 146
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