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How Thor Lost His Hammer · Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven of Asgard's stories. This is a librifox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Julieu Askard, Stories by Mary H. Foster and Mabel H. Cummings.
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  Speaker 1: How Thor lost his hammer? Come, LOGI are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: My goats are eager to be off, cried Thor as
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  Speaker 1: he sprang into his chariot, and away they went, thundering
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  Speaker 1: over the hills. All day long they journeyed, and at
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  Speaker 1: night they lay down to rest by the side of
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  Speaker 1: a brook. When Border, the bright sun god, awoke them
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, the first thing thought it was to
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  Speaker 1: reach out for meaner magic hammer, which he had carefully
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  Speaker 1: laid by his side the night before. Why, Loki cried,
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  Speaker 1: he alas my hammer is gone. Those evil frost giants
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  Speaker 1: must have stolen it from me while I slept. How
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  Speaker 1: shall we hold Asgard against them without my hammer? They
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  Speaker 1: will surely take our stronghold. We must go quickly and
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  Speaker 1: find it, replied Loki. Let us ask Friar to lend
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  Speaker 1: us her falcon garment. Now, the goddess Friar had a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful garment made of falcon feathers, and whoever wore it
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  Speaker 1: looked just like a bird. As you may suppose, this
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  Speaker 1: was sometimes a very useful thing. So Thor and Loki
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  Speaker 1: went quickly back to Asgard and drove with all speed
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  Speaker 1: to Friar's palace, where they found her sitting among her maidens.
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  Speaker 1: As God is in great danger, said Thor, And we
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  Speaker 1: have come to you, fair goddess, to ask if you
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  Speaker 1: will lend us your falcon garment, for my hammer has
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  Speaker 1: been carried off and we must go in search of it.
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  Speaker 1: Surely answered the Friar, I would lend you my falcon cloak,
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  Speaker 1: even if it were made of gold and silver. Then
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  Speaker 1: Loki quickly dressed himself in Friar's garment and flew away
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  Speaker 1: to the land of the Frost Giants, where he found
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  Speaker 1: their king making collars of gold for his dogs and
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  Speaker 1: combing his horses. As Loki came near, he looked up
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  Speaker 1: and said, ah, Loki, how fair the mighty gods in
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  Speaker 1: ask God the issue are in great trouble, replied Loki,
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  Speaker 1: and I am sent to fetch the hammer of Thor.
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  Speaker 1: And do you think I am going to be foolish
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  Speaker 1: enough to give it back to you. After I have
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  Speaker 1: had all the trouble of getting it into my power,
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  Speaker 1: said the King. I have buried it deep, deep down
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  Speaker 1: in the earth, and there is only one way by
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  Speaker 1: which you can get it again. You must bring me
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  Speaker 1: the goddess Friar, to be my wife. Loki did not
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  Speaker 1: know what to say to this, for he felt sure
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  Speaker 1: that Friar would never be willing to go away from
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  Speaker 1: Asgard to live among the fierce giants. But as he
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  Speaker 1: saw no chance of getting the hammer, he flew back
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  Speaker 1: to Asgard to see what could be done. Thor was
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  Speaker 1: anxiously looking out for him. What new do you bring, Loki,
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  Speaker 1: cried he. Have you brought me my hammer again? Alas no,
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  Speaker 1: said Loki, I bring only a message from the giant King.
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  Speaker 1: He will not give up your hammer until you persuade
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  Speaker 1: Friar to marry him. Then Thor and Loki went together
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  Speaker 1: to Fryar's palace, and the fair goddess greeted them kindly,
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  Speaker 1: But when she heard their errand and found that they
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  Speaker 1: wished her to marry the cruel giant, she was very
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  Speaker 1: angry and said to Thor, you should not have been
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  Speaker 1: so careless as to lose your hammer. It is all
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  Speaker 1: your own fault that it has gone, and I will
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  Speaker 1: never marry the giant to help you get it again.
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  Speaker 1: Thor then went to tell Father Odin, who called the
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  Speaker 1: meeting off all the Yesha, for it was a very
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  Speaker 1: serious matter they were to consider. If the King of
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  Speaker 1: the Giants only knew the power of the mighty hammer,
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  Speaker 1: he might storm Asgard and carry off the fair Friar
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  Speaker 1: to be his bride. So the Escha met together in
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  Speaker 1: their great Judgment Hall in the Palace of Glad. Time
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  Speaker 1: long and anxiously they talked over their peril, trying to
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  Speaker 1: find some plan for saving Asgard from these enemies. At last,
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  Speaker 1: tim Dal, the faithful watchmen of the Rainbow Bridge, proposed
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  Speaker 1: a plan. Let us dress Thor, said, he in Friar's robes,
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  Speaker 1: braid his hair, and let him wear Friar's wonderful neckness
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  Speaker 1: and the bridal veil. No, indeed, cried Thor angrily, you
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  Speaker 1: would all laugh at me in a woman's dress. I
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  Speaker 1: will do no such thing. We must find some other way.
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  Speaker 1: But when no other way could be found, at last,
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  Speaker 1: though was persuaded to try Himdau's plan, and the Asha
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  Speaker 1: went to work to dress the mighty from the God
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  Speaker 1: like a bride. He was the tallest of them more,
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  Speaker 1: and of course he looked very queer to them in
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  Speaker 1: his woman's clothes, but he would be small enough beside
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  Speaker 1: the giant. Then they dressed Loki to look like the
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  Speaker 1: bride's waiting maid, and the two set off for you, God,
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  Speaker 1: the stronghold of the giants. When the giant king saw
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  Speaker 1: them coming, he bat his servants mik ready the wadding
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  Speaker 1: feast and invited all his giant subjects to come and
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  Speaker 1: celebrate his marry with the lovely goddess Friar. So the
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  Speaker 1: wedding party sat down to the feast, and Thor, who
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  Speaker 1: was always a good eater, ate one ox and ate salmon,
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  Speaker 1: and drank three casks of meat. The king watched him greatly,
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  Speaker 1: surprised to see a woman eat so much, and said,
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  Speaker 1: where hast thousand such a hungry bride. But the watchful Loki,
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  Speaker 1: who stood nearby as the bride waiting maid, whispered in
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  Speaker 1: the king's ear, eight, nice has fryer fasted and would
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  Speaker 1: take no food. So inches was she to be your bride?
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  Speaker 1: This pleased the giant, and he went to a Thor,
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  Speaker 1: seeing he must his fair bride. But when he lifted
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  Speaker 1: the bridal veil, such a gleam of light shot from
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  Speaker 1: Thor's eyes that the king started back and asked why
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  Speaker 1: Friar's eyes were so sharp. Again, Loki replied, for eight
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  Speaker 1: nights the fair Friar has not slept, so greatly did
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  Speaker 1: she long to reach here. This again placed the king,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, now let the hammer be brought and
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  Speaker 1: given to the bride, for the hour has come for
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  Speaker 1: our marriage. All this time Thor was so eager to
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  Speaker 1: get his treasure back that he could hardly keep still,
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  Speaker 1: and if it had not been for what the wily
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  Speaker 1: Loki said, it might have been found out too soon.
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  Speaker 1: But at last the precious hammer was brought and handed
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  Speaker 1: to the bride, as was always the custom at weddings.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as Thor grasps it in his hand, he
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  Speaker 1: threw off his woman's robe and stood out before the
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  Speaker 1: astonished giants. Then did the mighty Thunderer sweep down his foes,
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  Speaker 1: and many of the cruel Frost giants were slain. Once more,
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  Speaker 1: the sacred city of Asgard was saved from danger. For
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  Speaker 1: Thor was its defender, and he was careful never again
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  Speaker 1: to let his magic hammer be taken from him. Besides
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  Speaker 1: the hammer, Thor had two other precious things, a spelt
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  Speaker 1: of strength, which doubled his power when he tightened it,
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  Speaker 1: and his iron glove, which he put on when he
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  Speaker 1: was going to throw the hammer. I am the god Thor.
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  Speaker 1: I am the war God. I am the thunderer. Here
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  Speaker 1: in my north land, my fastness and fortress rain I forever,
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  Speaker 1: Here amid iceberds, reale eye the nations. This is my hammer.
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  Speaker 1: Mena the mighty giants and sorcerers cannot withstand it. These
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  Speaker 1: are the gonness, wherewith I wieldered and hurl it afar off.
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  Speaker 1: This is my girdle. Whenever I brace it, strength is redoubled,
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  Speaker 1: long Fellow, end of chapter seven