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Identifier: norsestoriesreto00mabi (find matches)
Title: Norse stories retold from the Eddas / by Hamilton Wright Mabie ; with illustrations in color and decorations by George Wright
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Wright, George, ill
Subjects: Mythology, Norse
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Norse Stones was suddenly surprised, and not alittle frightened, by the apparition ofa young and beautiful man standingbefore her. What the handsomeyoung man said to her nobodyknows, but he probably told her hewas very much exhausted, and hintedthat she was very lovely; that hehad never seen any one he admiredso much before. At any rate, hepersuaded her to let him drink threedraughts of the mead, only three.They were certainly the most as-tonishing draughts anybody everheard of, for with the first heemptied one jar, with the secondhe emptied the other jar, and withthe third he finished the kettle. And now another wonderful changetook place. Bolverk had entered asa worm, but no sooner had he drunkthe mead than in an instant he be- <v
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VISING upward inbroad, easy flight THE PUBLIC ASTOR, LFTILDEN FO c How Odin Brought the Mead came an eagle, and before Gunladknew what had happened, withsplendid wings outspread he wasrising upward in broad, easy flight.Through the still air, faster andfaster, higher and higher, in widecircles that swept far round the sum-jmits of the mountains, in swift ma-jestic flight he rose until the earthhad vanished out of sight, and hismighty pinions beat against the gatesof Asgard. So Odin brought the mead toheaven, where it remains to this day,and only those whom the gods loveare permitted to drink of it. ( • 53 l-vs^V o >)>

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Wright, George, ill
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  • bookyear:1908
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Mabie__Hamilton_Wright__1846_1916
  • bookauthor:Wright__George__ill
  • booksubject:Mythology__Norse
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Dodd__Mead
  • bookcontributor:New_York_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:72
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