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Skadi · Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology

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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten of Esgard's stories. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Julieu Escard, stories by Mary H. Foster and Mabel H.
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  Speaker 1: Cummings Scadie. While Iduna's friends were still crowding about, all
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  Speaker 1: joyful and glad at getting her home again, despite someone
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  Speaker 1: afar off coming toward Asgard. As the figure drew nearer,
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  Speaker 1: they saw it was Scady, the tall daughter of the
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  Speaker 1: frost giant ts who had chased Iduna. She was dressed
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  Speaker 1: all in white fur and carried a shining hunting spear
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  Speaker 1: and arrows slung over her shoulder, with snow shoes and skates.
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  Speaker 1: For Scati had come from her mountain home in the
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  Speaker 1: icy North, very angry about the loss of her father.
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  Speaker 1: She had come to ask the Esher why they had
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  Speaker 1: been so cruel to him. Father Odin spoke kindly to her, saying,
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  Speaker 1: we will do honor to your father by putting his
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  Speaker 1: eyes in the sky, where they will always shine as
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  Speaker 1: two bright stars, and the people in Midgard will remember
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  Speaker 1: Trs whenever they look up at night. And see the
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  Speaker 1: two twinkling lights. Besides this, we will also give you
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  Speaker 1: gold and silver. But Scati, thinking money could never repay
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  Speaker 1: her for the loss of her father, was still angry.
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  Speaker 1: Logi looked at her stern face, and he said to himself,
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  Speaker 1: if we can only make a Scarti laugh, she will
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  Speaker 1: be more ready to agree to the plan, and he
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  Speaker 1: began to think of some way to amuse her. Taking
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  Speaker 1: a long cord, he tied it to a goat. It
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  Speaker 1: was an invisible chord which no one could see, and
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  Speaker 1: Loki himself held the other end of it. Then he
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  Speaker 1: began to dance and caper about, and the goat had
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  Speaker 1: to do just what Loki did.
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  Speaker 2: It was really such a funny sight that all the
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  Speaker 2: gods shouted with laughter, and even poor sorrowful Scati had
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  Speaker 2: to smile.
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  Speaker 1: When the ashes saw this, they proposed another plan. Scaty
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  Speaker 1: might choose one of the gods for her husband, but
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  Speaker 1: she must choose from seeing only his bare feet. The
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  Speaker 1: giantesst looked at them more as they stood before her,
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  Speaker 1: and when she saw the bright face of order, more
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  Speaker 1: beautiful than all the rest, she agreed to their plan,
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  Speaker 1: saying to herself it might be that I should choose him,
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  Speaker 1: and then I should surely be happy. The gods then
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  Speaker 1: stood in a row behind the curtain, so that Scartie
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  Speaker 1: could see nothing but their bare feet. She looked carefully
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  Speaker 1: at them more, and at last chose the pair of
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  Speaker 1: feet which seemed to her the whitest and of the
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  Speaker 1: finest shape, thinking those must be Borthers. But when the
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  Speaker 1: curtain was taken away, she was surprised and sorry to
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  Speaker 1: find she had chosen Neared, the god of the sea shore.
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  Speaker 1: The wedding took place at Asgard, and when the feasting
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  Speaker 1: was over, Scandy and Neared went to dwell in his
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  Speaker 1: home by the sea. At first they were very happy,
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  Speaker 1: but near it was kind to his giant bride, But
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  Speaker 1: how could you expect one of the asha to live
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  Speaker 1: happily very long with a frost giant test for his wife,
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  Speaker 1: Scady did not like the roar of the waves, and
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  Speaker 1: hated the cries of the sea gulls and the murmur
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  Speaker 1: of gentle summer winds. She longed for her frozen home
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  Speaker 1: far away in the north amid ic and snow, and
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  Speaker 1: so they finally agreed that for nine months of the year,
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  Speaker 1: Neared would live with Scati among her snowy mountains, where
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  Speaker 1: she found happiness in hunting over the white hills and
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  Speaker 1: valleys on her snow shoes with the hunting dogs at
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  Speaker 1: her side, or skating on the ice bound rivers and lakes.
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  Speaker 1: Then for the three short months of summer, Scadi must
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  Speaker 1: live near it in his palace by the sea, while
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  Speaker 1: he calmed the stormy ocean waves and helped the busy
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  Speaker 1: fishermen to have good sailing for their boats. Neerd loved
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  Speaker 1: to wander along the shore, his jacket trimmed with a
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  Speaker 1: fringe of lovely seaweeds, and his belt made of the
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  Speaker 1: prettiest shells, on the beach, with the friendly little sandpipers
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  Speaker 1: running before him, and beautiful girls and other seabirds sailing
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  Speaker 1: in the air above his head. Sometimes he loved to
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  Speaker 1: sit on the rocks by the shore, watching the seals
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  Speaker 1: play in the sunshine, or feeding the beautiful swans, his
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  Speaker 1: favorite birds. There is a kind of sponge which the
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  Speaker 1: people in the north still call neart glove, in memory
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  Speaker 1: of this old Norse god. End of Chapter ten