. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Norse Stones To the giantess Night, and to herbeautiful son Day, whose father wasof their own number, the gods gavechariots and swift horses that theymight ride through the sky once inevery twenty-four hours. Nightdrove first behind the fleet Hrim-faxe, and as she ended her course atdawn bedewed the waiting earth withdrops from his bit; Day flew swiftlyafter his dusky mother, the shiningmane of his horse, Skinfaxe, fillingthe heavens with light. There wasalso one Mu
. Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illistrations in color and decorations by George Wright . Norse Stones To the giantess Night, and to herbeautiful son Day, whose father wasof their own number, the gods gavechariots and swift horses that theymight ride through the sky once inevery twenty-four hours. Nightdrove first behind the fleet Hrim-faxe, and as she ended her course atdawn bedewed the waiting earth withdrops from his bit; Day flew swiftlyafter his dusky mother, the shiningmane of his horse, Skinfaxe, fillingthe heavens with light. There wasalso one Mundilfare, who had ason and daughter of such exceed-ing beauty that he called the oneMaane, or Moon, and the otherSol, or Sun; and the gods were soangry at his daring that they set theone to guide the Sun and the otherthe Moon in their daily courses around the world. So day and night, 8
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