. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Chapter I The Making of the World EIGHT hundred years ago, whenthe galleys of the bold Norse-men were scudding through stormand mist far into the unknown west-ern seas, or, in the soft summer ofthe Mediterranean, riding at anchorin the ports of Italy and NorthernAfrica, the old stories of the battlesof the gods and the giants that hadbeen repeated for hundreds of yearsby Norse firesides in the long winterer evening were brought together bysome unknown man in Iceland
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Chapter I The Making of the World EIGHT hundred years ago, whenthe galleys of the bold Norse-men were scudding through stormand mist far into the unknown west-ern seas, or, in the soft summer ofthe Mediterranean, riding at anchorin the ports of Italy and NorthernAfrica, the old stories of the battlesof the gods and the giants that hadbeen repeated for hundreds of yearsby Norse firesides in the long winterer evening were brought together bysome unknown man in Iceland, andwere known henceforth as the Elder ^^^^_^^^^ ^ ihi -r Norse Stones Edda; and a hundred years laterSnorre Sturleson retold the same oldstories, with others equally marvel-lous, in the Younger Edda. Theseancient books, which a brave andnoble race carried in its heart throughall its wide wanderings and conquests,take one back to the beginning oftime, and tell of the birth of theworlds and the coming of the godsto rule over them. Norway faces the sea with a lineof cliffs so massive that their founda-tions seem everlasting.
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