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The Punishment of Loki · Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen of Escard's stories. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: Julieu Escard's Stories by Mary H. Foster and Mabel H. Cummings.
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  Speaker 1: The Punishment of Loki. When Loki was driven out by
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  Speaker 1: the mighty Thaw from Edga's palace hall, he knew that
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  Speaker 1: he could never again be allowed to come among the
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  Speaker 1: gods in Asgard. Many times had this mischievous fire god
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  Speaker 1: brought trouble and sorrow to the Asia. But now he
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  Speaker 1: had done the most cruel deed of all. He had slain,
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  Speaker 1: bordered the good, and had driven all light and joy
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  Speaker 1: from Asgard far away. He fled among the mountains, hoping
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  Speaker 1: that no one would find him there, and near a
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  Speaker 1: lovely mountain stream, he built for himself a hut with
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  Speaker 1: four doors, looking north, east, south, and west, so that
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  Speaker 1: if the wise old Father, on his high air throne
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  Speaker 1: in Asgards should see him and send messengers to punish him,
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  Speaker 1: the watchful Loki could see them coming and escape by
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  Speaker 1: the opposite door. He spent most of the days and
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  Speaker 1: nice thinking how he could get away from the asher
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  Speaker 1: if I ran to the stream and turned myself into
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  Speaker 1: a fish. He thought, I wonder if they could catch me,
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  Speaker 1: I could keep out of the way of a hawk.
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  Speaker 1: But then they are nets. Edge's wife has a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: think like a net for catching fish, and that would
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  Speaker 1: be far worse than a hook. When Loki thought of
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  Speaker 1: the net, he began to wonder how it was made,
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  Speaker 1: and the more he thought, the more he wished he
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  Speaker 1: could make one, so as to see how a fish
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  Speaker 1: could keep from getting caught in it. He sat down
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  Speaker 1: by the fire in his little hut, took a piece
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  Speaker 1: of cord, and began to make a fish net. He
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  Speaker 1: had nearly finished it when looking up through the open door,
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  Speaker 1: he saw three of the asher in the distance coming
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  Speaker 1: towards his hut. Loki well knew that they were coming
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  Speaker 1: to catch him, and quickly throwing his net into the fire,
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  Speaker 1: he ran to the stream, changed himself into a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: spotted salmon, and leaped into the water. A moment later,
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  Speaker 1: the three gods entered the hut, and one of them
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  Speaker 1: spied the fish net burning in the fire. See cried
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  Speaker 1: he Loki must have been making this net to catch fish.
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  Speaker 1: He always was a good fisherman, and now this is
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  Speaker 1: just what we want for catching him. So they snatched
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  Speaker 1: the last bit of the net from the fire, and
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  Speaker 1: by looking at it, find out how to make another,
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  Speaker 1: which they took with them to the bank of the stream.
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  Speaker 1: The first time the net was put into the water,
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  Speaker 1: Loki hid between two rocks, and the net was so
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  Speaker 1: light that it float past him. But the next time
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  Speaker 1: he had a heavy stone weight, which made it sink
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  Speaker 1: down till Loki saw he could not get away unless
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  Speaker 1: he could over the net. He did this. A Thor,
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  Speaker 1: seeing him, waded out into the stream, where he threw
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  Speaker 1: the net again, so that Loki must jump a second time,
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  Speaker 1: or else go on out into the deep sea. As
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  Speaker 1: he leaped, thought stooped and caught him in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: But the fish was so slippery that Thor could hardly
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  Speaker 1: hold it. In the struggle, the salmon's tail was pinched
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  Speaker 1: so tightly by the thunder God's strong fingers that it
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  Speaker 1: was drawn out to a point, and the old story
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  Speaker 1: say that is why Simon's tails are so pointed. Ever since,
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  Speaker 1: thus was Loki caught in his own trap, and dreadful
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  Speaker 1: was his punishment, the Asia changed him to a high
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  Speaker 1: rock and placed a great poisonous serpent had over the
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  Speaker 1: cliff above his head. If it had not been for
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  Speaker 1: Loki's good faithful wife, he would have died of the
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  Speaker 1: poison that dropped from the snake's mouth. She watched by
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  Speaker 1: her husband holding a cup above him to catch the poison.
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  Speaker 1: Only when she had to turn aside to empty the
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  Speaker 1: cup did the drops fall upon Loki. Then they gave
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  Speaker 1: him such terrible pain that he shook the earth with
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  Speaker 1: his struggles, and the people in Mega fled from the
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  Speaker 1: dreadful earthquake. In Iceland, the Great Geezer's spring of hot
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  Speaker 1: water burst through the earth, and in the Southlands, burning
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  Speaker 1: ashes and lava poured down the mountainsides. There Chained to
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  Speaker 1: the cliff, the crew mischievous Loki was still lie until
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  Speaker 1: the twidlight of the gods, the dark day of right
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  Speaker 1: and work? Where are the mighty evil monsters and pieces?
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  Speaker 1: We get free? And the terrible battle be fought between
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  Speaker 1: them and the gods of Asgard end of chapter thirteen.