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                        YOUNG FOLKS' LIBRARY OF
                           CHOICE LITERATURE.


                                LEGENDS
                                   OF
                               NORSELAND


                               EDITED BY
                             MARA L. PRATT,
               Author of "American History Stories," etc.
                        Illustrated by A. CHASE


                    EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
                                BOSTON.
                        NEW YORK.      CHICAGO.








                              Copyrighted
                   By EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY,
                                 1894.








CONTENTS.


                                          Page

    Valkyrie (Frontispiece)                  6
    The Beginning                            7
    Ygdrasil                                12
    Odin at the Well of Wisdom              17
    Odin and the All-wise Giant             22
    The Stolen Wine. Part I.                28
    The Stolen Wine. Part II.               36
    Loke's Theft                            46
    Thor's Hammer                           53
    The Theft of the Hammer                 68
    The Finding of the Hammer               76
    The Apples of Life. Part I.             84
    The Apples of Life. Part II.            97
    Loke's Wolf                            105
    The Fenris-wolf                        114
    Defeat of Hrungner                     121
    Thor and Skrymer                       132
    Thor and the Utgard-King               143
    Thor and the Midgard Serpent           155
    Valkyries' Song                        165
    The Dying Baldur                       167
    The Punishment of Loke                 178
    The Darkness that fell on Asgard       185








LEGENDS OF NORSELAND.

I.

THE BEGINNING.


In the beginning, when the beautiful and sunny world was first made,
there stood, in the very midst of all its beauty, Mt. Ida--a mountain
so high, so far away up among the snowy clouds, that its summit was
lost in the shining light of the rays of the sun