. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Norse Stones Bolverk drew out an auger fromunder his clothing. Bauge, said he, you promisedto help me get that mead. I amgoing into Suttungs cellar for it. Bauge smiled at the idea of cut-ting through a thick rock and gettinginto the cellar with that auger, butwhen it was handed to him he tookit without saying a word and beganto bore. It was an astonishing au-ger, for no sooner had he pressed itJagainst the rock than it began to flyaround with wonderful rapidity, th
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Norse Stones Bolverk drew out an auger fromunder his clothing. Bauge, said he, you promisedto help me get that mead. I amgoing into Suttungs cellar for it. Bauge smiled at the idea of cut-ting through a thick rock and gettinginto the cellar with that auger, butwhen it was handed to him he tookit without saying a word and beganto bore. It was an astonishing au-ger, for no sooner had he pressed itJagainst the rock than it began to flyaround with wonderful rapidity, thechips of stone fairly making a cloudj;&bout him. Once he stopped, for heIjwas afraid he really would get intothe cellar, and told Bolverk he hadbored through, but Bolverk knewthat couldnt be true, because thechips still flew out; so he told Baugeto go on. In a little time the au- 50 I ; w D. - v How Odin Brought the Mead ger slipped through. Bauge lookedaround, but there was no Bolverk,and while he stared in every directiona large worm crept up the rock andinto the hole. When Bauge caughtsight of it he thrust the auger hastilyinto the hole, but Bolverks voiceanswered back from the cellar, Toolate, Bauge; you neednt bore anylonger. Then Bauge suspected that a manwho had done the work of nine menall summer, and suddenly changedhimself into a worm, must be some-body more than common. Bolverkwas actually in Suttungs house, buthow was he to get out again with themead? Gunlad, the young lady who hadbeen charged by her father to watchthe precious drink day and night,was sitting quietly beside it, when she
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