. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Norse Stories And everyday these Norns sprinkledthe tree with the water of life fromthe Urdar fountain, and so keptit forever green. In the topmostbranches sat an eagle singing a strangesong about the birth of the world, itsdecay and death. Under its branchesbrowsed all manner of animals ; amongits leaves every kind of bird made itsnest; by day the rainbow hung underit; at night the pale northern lightflashed over it, and as the winds sweptthrough its rustling branc
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Norse Stories And everyday these Norns sprinkledthe tree with the water of life fromthe Urdar fountain, and so keptit forever green. In the topmostbranches sat an eagle singing a strangesong about the birth of the world, itsdecay and death. Under its branchesbrowsed all manner of animals ; amongits leaves every kind of bird made itsnest; by day the rainbow hung underit; at night the pale northern lightflashed over it, and as the winds sweptthrough its rustling branches, the mul-titudinous murmur of the leaves toldstrange stories of the past and of thefuture. The giants were older than thegods, and knew so much more ofthe past that the gods had to go tothem for wisdom. After a time, however, the gods became wiser than thegiants, or they would have ceased to. .
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