. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . The Making of the World darkened the sun, no blights fell onthe growing fields, no mighty taskspressed on the hearts of the godssummoning them out of ease andpleasure to great enterprises and aw-ful perils. At last the happy timejgjcame to an end, for one day theNorns, or fates, the three terriblesisters, Urd, Verdande, and Skuld,who determined the course of eventsand shaped the lives of things, tooktheir abode at the foot of the treeYgdrasil, and henceforth not eve
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . The Making of the World darkened the sun, no blights fell onthe growing fields, no mighty taskspressed on the hearts of the godssummoning them out of ease andpleasure to great enterprises and aw-ful perils. At last the happy timejgjcame to an end, for one day theNorns, or fates, the three terriblesisters, Urd, Verdande, and Skuld,who determined the course of eventsand shaped the lives of things, tooktheir abode at the foot of the treeYgdrasil, and henceforth not eventhe gods were free from care. The earth was fruitful, but no onetilled its field or crossed its seas;the shouts of children at play andthe ringing voices of the reapers andharvesters were never heard. So thegods took the earth-mould and outof it they made the dwarfs and setthem to work in the veins of metal.
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