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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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CONTENTS

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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.