asked Felicity . `` Because there 's more of them , '' said Felix , grinning . I forget what we did to Felix . A shower came up in the evening and we had to stop picking . After the shower there was a magnificent double rainbow . We watched it from the granary window , and the Story Girl told us an old legend , culled from one of Aunt Olivia 's many scrapbooks . `` Long , long ago , in the Golden Age , when the gods used to visit the earth so often that it was nothing uncommon to see them , Odin made a pilgrimage over the world . Odin was the great god of the northland , you know . And wherever he went among men he taught them love and brotherhood , and skilful arts ; and great cities sprang up where he had trodden , and every land through which he passed was blessed because one of the gods had come down to men . But many men and women followed Odin himself , giving up all their worldly possessions and ambitions ; and to these he promised the gift of eternal life . All these people were good and noble and unselfish and kind ; but the best and noblest of them all was a youth named Ving ; and this youth was beloved by Odin above all others , for his beauty and strength and goodness . Always he walked on Odin 's right hand , and always the first light of Odin 's smile fell on him . Tall and straight was he as a young pine , and his long hair was the colour of ripe wheat in the sun ; and his blue eyes were like the northland heavens on a starry night . `` In Odin 's band was a beautiful maiden named Alin . She was as fair and delicate as a young birch tree in spring among the dark old pines and firs , and Ving loved her with all his heart . His soul thrilled with rapture at the thought that he and she together should drink from the fountain of immortality , as Odin had promised , and be one thereafter in eternal youth . `` At last they came to the very place where the rainbow touched the earth . And the rainbow was a great bridge , built of living colours , so dazzling and wonderful that beyond it the eye could see nothing , only far away a great , blinding , sparkling glory , where the fountain of life sprang up in a shower of diamond fire . But under the Rainbow Bridge rolled a terrible flood , deep and wide and violent , full of rocks and rapids and whirlpools . `` There was a Warder of the bridge , a god , dark and stern and sorrowful .
And to him Odin gave command that he should open the gate and allow his followers XXXXX cross the Rainbow Bridge , that they might drink of the fountain of life beyond .
After as because from in like on over to under