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STORIES FROM NORTHERN MYTHS
by
EMILIE KIP BAKER
Author of "Stories of Old Greece and Rome"
New York
The Macmillan Company
1914
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1914,
By the Macmillan Company.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1914.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
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TO
SARAH M. HOMANS
CONTENTS
PAGE
I. How All Things Began 1
II. Odin's Search for Wisdom 9
III. The Story of the Magic Mead 18
IV. Gods and Men 27
V. Sif's Golden Hair and the Making of the Hammer 40
VI. The Binding of the Fenris Wolf 51
VII. How Thor Went Fishing 58
VIII. The Building of the Fortress 66
IX. How the Hammer Was Lost and Found 73
X. Iduna's Apples 80
XI. How Thor's Pride Was Brought Low.
Part I 91
XII. How Thor's Pride Was Brought Low.