. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Chapter V The Wooing of Gerd. FREY was busy enough in sum-mer, when the sunlight was tofall warm and fruitful along the moun-tain ridges and deep into the val-leys, and the gentle showers were tobe gathered far out at sea and drivenby the winds across the heavens, weav-ing soft draperies of mist about thehills, or folding the landscape inwith blinding curtains of rain asthey passed ; for the sowing and theharvesting and the ripening of thefruit were his to watch ove
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Chapter V The Wooing of Gerd. FREY was busy enough in sum-mer, when the sunlight was tofall warm and fruitful along the moun-tain ridges and deep into the val-leys, and the gentle showers were tobe gathered far out at sea and drivenby the winds across the heavens, weav-ing soft draperies of mist about thehills, or folding the landscape inwith blinding curtains of rain asthey passed ; for the sowing and theharvesting and the ripening of thefruit were his to watch over andcare for. But when winter came,Frey was idle day in and day out,and so it happened, in this long dull — II— The Wooing of Gerd season, that he was wandering rest-lessly one morning about Asgard,when he saw that Odins throne wasempty. To sit upon it and lookout over the world was the thoughtthat flashed into Freys mind andout again, leaving him more idle andrestless than before. Neither mannor god, save Odin, had dared to sitin that awful seat, from which noth-ing was hidden ; but when one hasnothing to do, it is easy to do wandered a
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