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THE ARGONAUTS I How the Centaur Trained the Heroes on Pelion I have told you of a hero who fought with wild beasts and with wild men; but now I have a tale of heroes who sailed away into a distant la…
THE GIANT BUILDER Ages and ages ago, when the world was first made, the gods decided to build a beautiful city high above the heavens, the most glorious and wonderful city that ever was known. Asgard…
HOW ODIN LOST HIS EYE In the beginning of things, before there was any world or sun, moon, and stars, there were the giants; for these were the oldest creatures that ever breathed. They lived in Jotu…
THE QUEST OF THE HAMMER One morning Thor the Thunderer awoke with a yawn, and stretching out his knotted arm, felt for his precious hammer, which he kept always under his pillow of clouds. But he sta…
THE APPLES OF IDUN Once upon a time Odin, Loki, and Hœner started on a journey. They had often travelled together before on all sorts of errands, for they had a great many things to look after, and m…
THE DEATH OF BALDER There was one shadow which always fell over Asgard. Sometimes in the long years the gods almost forgot it, it lay so far off, like a dim cloud in a clear sky; but Odin saw it deep…
THE STAR AND THE LILY An old chieftain sat in his wigwam, quietly smoking his favourite pipe, when a crowd of Indian boys and girls suddenly entered, and, with numerous offerings of tobacco, begged h…
