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Speaker 1: Chapter six, Part three of A Guide to Mythology by
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Speaker 1: Helen Clark. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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Speaker 1: Chapter six, Part three, Myths of the Sky and Air.
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Speaker 1: When the feast came to be served up and they
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Speaker 1: were summoned to be in attendance, one of them, a
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Speaker 1: sprightly young fellow of an inquisitive turn of mind, was
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Speaker 1: found upon the roof of the lodge with his head
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Speaker 1: half way down the smoke hull, with a view to
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Speaker 1: learn what they were to have for dinner. Another, a
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Speaker 1: middle aged bear with very long arms, who was put
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Speaker 1: in charge of the children in the character of nurse,
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Speaker 1: squeezed three or four of the most promising young papooses
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Speaker 1: to death while the mothers were outside to look after
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Speaker 1: the preparations. And another, when he should have been waiting
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Speaker 1: at the back of his master, had climbed a shady
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Speaker 1: tree and was indulging in his afternoon nap. And when
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Speaker 1: at last the dinner was ready to be served, they
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Speaker 1: came tumbling in with the dishes heels overhead, one after
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Speaker 1: the other, so that one half of the feast was
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Speaker 1: spread upon the ground and the other half deposited out
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Speaker 1: of doors on the other side of the lodge. After
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Speaker 1: a while, however, by strict discipline and threatening to cut
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Speaker 1: off their provisions, the bear servants were brought into tolerable control.
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Speaker 1: Yet paw Pukuis, with his ever restless disposition, was uneasy,
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Speaker 1: and having done so many wonderful things, he resolved upon
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Speaker 1: a strict and thorough reform in all the affairs of
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Speaker 1: the village. To prevent future difficulty, he determined to adopt
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Speaker 1: new regulations between the bears and their masters. With this view,
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Speaker 1: he issued an edict that henceforward the Bears should eat
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Speaker 1: at the first table, and that the Indians were to
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Speaker 1: wait upon them. That in all public processions of an
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Speaker 1: honorable character, the Bears should go first, and that when
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Speaker 1: any fighting was to be done, the Indians should have
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Speaker 1: the privilege reserved of receiving the first shots. A special
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Speaker 1: exemption was made in behalf of pau Puckewis's favorite and
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Speaker 1: confidential adviser, pipe Bearer, who had been very busy in
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Speaker 1: private recommending the new order of things. He was to
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Speaker 1: be allowed to sit at the head of the feast
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Speaker 1: and to stay at home with the old women in
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Speaker 1: the event of battle. Having seen his orders strictly enforced,
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Speaker 1: and the rights of the Bears over the Indians fairly established.
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Speaker 1: Paw Pucubus fixed his mind upon further adventures. He determined
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Speaker 1: to go abroad for a time, and, having an old
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Speaker 1: score to settle with Manabozho, he set out with a
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Speaker 1: hope of soon falling in with that famous giant. Paw
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Speaker 1: Puckuus was a blood relation of dais IMiD Or, he
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Speaker 1: of the little Shell, and had heard of what had
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Speaker 1: passed between that giant and his kinsman. After wandering a
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Speaker 1: long time, he came to the lodge of Manabajo, who
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Speaker 1: was absent. He thought he must play him a trick,
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Speaker 1: so he turned everything in the lodge upside down and
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Speaker 1: killed his birds, of which there was an extraordinary attendance.
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Speaker 1: For Mannibazo is masster of the fowls of the air,
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Speaker 1: and this was the appointed mourning for them to call
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Speaker 1: and pay their court to him. Among the number was
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Speaker 1: a raven, accounted the meanest of birds, which Paw Pucubas
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Speaker 1: killed and hung up by the neck to insult him.
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Speaker 1: He then went on till he came to a very
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Speaker 1: high point of rocks running out into the lake from
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Speaker 1: the top of which he could see the country back
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Speaker 1: as far as the eye could reach. While sitting there,
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Speaker 1: Man of Bozo's mountain, chickens flew round and passed him
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Speaker 1: in great numbers, out of mere spite to their master.
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Speaker 1: Paw Puckuus shot them by the score, for his arrows
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Speaker 1: were very sure, and the birds very plenty, And he
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Speaker 1: amused himself by throwing the birds down the rocks at length.
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Speaker 1: A wary bird cried out, Pa Pucuus is killing us,
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Speaker 1: Go and tell our father away. Sped a delegation of
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Speaker 1: the birds, which were the quickest of wing, and Manabazo
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Speaker 1: soon made his appearance on the plain below. Paw Pucuus,
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Speaker 1: who when he is in the wrong, is no match
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Speaker 1: for Manabazo, made his escape on the other side. Manabozo,
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Speaker 1: who had in two or three strides reached the top
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Speaker 1: of the mountain, cried out, you are a rogue. The
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Speaker 1: earth is not so large that I can get up
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Speaker 1: to you. Off ran Paupucuus and Manabozo after him. The
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Speaker 1: race was sharp, and such leaps and strides as they
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Speaker 1: made over hills and prairies. With all his speed went
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Speaker 1: Pawpucuus and Manebazo hard upon him. Pap Puckuwis had some
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Speaker 1: mischievous notions still left in his head, which he thought
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Speaker 1: might befriend him. He knew that Manebazo was under a
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Speaker 1: spell to restore whatever he paw Puckibus destroyed. Forthwith, he
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Speaker 1: stopped and climbed a large pine tree, stripped off its
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Speaker 1: beautiful green foliage, threw it into the winds, and then
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Speaker 1: went on. When Manebazo reached the spot, the tree addressed him,
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Speaker 1: great chief, said the tree, will you give me my
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Speaker 1: life again? Paw Pucubus has killed me, Yes, replied Manebazo, who,
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Speaker 1: as quickly as he could, gathered the scattered leaves and branches,
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Speaker 1: renewed its beauty with its breath, and set off. Although
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Speaker 1: paw Pucuis in the same way compelled Manebazo to lose
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Speaker 1: time in repairing the hemlock, the sycamore cedar, and many
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Speaker 1: other trees, the giant did not falter, but, pushing briskly forward,
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Speaker 1: was fast overtaking him. When paw Puckuus happened to see
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Speaker 1: an elk and asking him, for old acquaintance's sake, to
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Speaker 1: take him on his back, the elk did so, and
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Speaker 1: for some time he made good headway, but still Manabozo
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Speaker 1: was in sight. He was fast gaining upon him when
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Speaker 1: Paw Pucuis threw himself off the elk's back, and striking
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Speaker 1: a great sandstone rock near the path, he broke it
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Speaker 1: into pieces and scattered the grains in a thousand directions.
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Speaker 1: For this was nearly his last hope of escape. Manabozo
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Speaker 1: was so close upon him at this place that he
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Speaker 1: had almost caught him. But the foundation of the rock
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Speaker 1: cried out, Hai, Nemosho, paw Pucuus has spoiled me. Will
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Speaker 1: you not restore me to life? Yes, replied Manabazo. He
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Speaker 1: re established the rock in all its strength. He then
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Speaker 1: pushed on in pursuit, and had got so near to
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Speaker 1: Paw Pucuus as to put out his arm to seize him,
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Speaker 1: But Pau Pucuus dodged him, and as his last chance,
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Speaker 1: he immediately raised such a dust and commotion by whirlwinds
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Speaker 1: as made the trees break and the sand and leaves
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Speaker 1: dance in the air. Again and again Manebazo stretched his arm,
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Speaker 1: but he escaped him at every turn, and kept up
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Speaker 1: such a tumult of dust that he dashed into a
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Speaker 1: hollow tree which had been blown down, changed himself into
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Speaker 1: a snake, and crept out at the roots, just in
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Speaker 1: time to save his life, for at that moment Manabozo,
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Speaker 1: who had the power of lightning, struck it, and it
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Speaker 1: was strewn about in little pieces. Again, Paupucuus was in
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Speaker 1: human shape, and Manabozo was pressing him hard. At a distance,
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Speaker 1: he saw a very high bluff of rocks jutting out
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Speaker 1: into a lake, and he ran for the foot of
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Speaker 1: the precipice, which was abrupt and elevated. As he came near,
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Speaker 1: to his surprise and great relief, the Manito of the
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Speaker 1: rock opened his door and told Paupucius to come in.
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Speaker 1: The door was no sooner closed than mana Baso knocked.
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Speaker 1: Oh bennitt, he cried with a loud voice. The Manito
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Speaker 1: was afraid of him, but he said to Paupucius, since
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Speaker 1: I have taken you as my guest, I would die
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Speaker 1: with you than open the door. Open it. Manabaso again cried,
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Speaker 1: in a louder voice than before. The Manito kept silent
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Speaker 1: very well, said Manabaso, I give you till morning to live.
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Speaker 1: Paupuckuus trembled, for he thought his last hour had come.
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Speaker 1: When the night came on, the clouds were thick and black,
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Speaker 1: and as they were torn open by the lightning, such
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Speaker 1: discharges of thunder were never heard. As bellowed forth. The
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Speaker 1: clouds advanced slowly and wrapped the earth about with their
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Speaker 1: vast shadows, as in a huge cloak. All night long,
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Speaker 1: the clouds gathered, and the lightning flashed, and the thunder roared,
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Speaker 1: and above all could be heard man a Baso muttering
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Speaker 1: vengeance upon poor Paul Pucuus. You have led a very
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Speaker 1: foolish kind of life, Pau Puncuis, said his friend, the Manito.
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Speaker 1: I know it, I know it. Pau Pucuus answered, You
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Speaker 1: had great gifts of strength awarded to you, said the Monito.
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Speaker 1: I am aware of it, replied pau Pucuus. Instead of
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Speaker 1: employing it for useful purposes and for the good of
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Speaker 1: your fellow creatures, you have done nothing since you became
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Speaker 1: a man but raise whirlwinds on the highways, leap over trees,
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Speaker 1: break whatever you met in pieces, and perform a thousand
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Speaker 1: idle pranks. Pau Pucuus with great penitence confessed that his friend,
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Speaker 1: the Manito, spoke but too truly. Then Manabazo, as Anamiki,
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Speaker 1: the spirit of lightning, in a cloud of heavy blackness,
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Speaker 1: floated over the bluff of rocks that protected Paupuccuus. The
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Speaker 1: threatening roar of his voice was heard, rending the air,
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Speaker 1: and Paupucuus, with his companion, the Manito of the rocks,
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Speaker 1: trembled with fear. Mighty arrows of fire darted through the
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Speaker 1: air from Manebazo's bow. The mountains themselves gave way. The
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Speaker 1: solid rocks were broken and tottering apart, fell, crushing Paupucuus
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Speaker 1: and the Manito into fragments. For the first time, Paupucuus
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Speaker 1: experienced death, for he was incapable of entering by his
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Speaker 1: own will a new form, as he was in the
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Speaker 1: human form when crushed between the rocks of the mountain.
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Speaker 1: The Norse god of the sky Odin was depicted in
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Speaker 1: a most picturesque fashion. He is said to look like
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Speaker 1: an old, tall, one eyed man with a long beard,
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Speaker 1: a broad brimmed hat, a striped cloak of many colors,
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Speaker 1: and a spear in his hand. On his arm. He
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Speaker 1: wears the gold ring droupner, and carries a spear called gunger.
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Speaker 1: Two ravens sit on his shoulders, two wolves lie at
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Speaker 1: his feet, and a huge chariot rolls over his head.
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Speaker 1: He sits upon a high throne and looks out upon
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Speaker 1: the world. Or he rides on the winds upon his
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Speaker 1: horse slap near. There is a deep speculative expression upon
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Speaker 1: his countenance. Odin's hat symbolizes the arched vault of heaven,
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Speaker 1: and his blue or variegated cloak is the blue sky
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Speaker 1: or atmosphere. His horse with eight legs, as we learned before,
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Speaker 1: symbolizes the eight winds of heaven, and his ring the
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Speaker 1: fruitfulness of nature. His spear produces violent trembling or shaking.
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Speaker 1: He is regarded as the all pervading spirit of the
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Speaker 1: world and produces life and spirit. Though he did not
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Speaker 1: create the world. In whatever creative work he does, he
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Speaker 1: is helped by others. All knowledge comes from him, the
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Speaker 1: arts of war and the arts of peace. Even poetry
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Speaker 1: was invented by him. He is the ruler over all things,
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Speaker 1: and although other deities may have power, they all serve
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Speaker 1: and obey him as children do their father. He frequently
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Speaker 1: appeared to men. One of the most interesting of these
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Speaker 1: revelations of himself is told in the Norse epoch the
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Speaker 1: Volsung Saga, the story of Odin's Sword and Sigmund. King
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Speaker 1: Volsung had made preparations for an entertainment. Blazing fires burned
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Speaker 1: along the hall, and in the middle of the hall
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Speaker 1: stood a large tree, whose green and fair foliage covered
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Speaker 1: the roof. King Volsung had placed it there, and it
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Speaker 1: was called Odin's Tree. Now, as the guests sat round
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Speaker 1: the fire in the evening, a man entered the hall,
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Speaker 1: whose countenance they did not know. He wore a variegated cloak,
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Speaker 1: was barefooted, His breeches were of linen, and a wide
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Speaker 1: brimmed hat hung down over his face. He was very tall,
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Speaker 1: looked old, and was one eyed. He had a sword
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Speaker 1: in his hand. The man went to the tree and
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Speaker 1: struck his sword into it with so powerful a blow
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Speaker 1: that it sunk into it even to the hilt. No
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Speaker 1: one dared greet this man, then, said he, he who
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Speaker 1: draws this sword out of the trunk of the tree,
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Speaker 1: shall have it as a gift from me, and shall
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Speaker 1: find it true that he never wielded a better sword.
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Speaker 1: Then went the old man out of the hall again,
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Speaker 1: and no one knew who he was or whither he went.
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Speaker 1: Now all tried to draw the sword out, but it
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Speaker 1: would not move. Before Volsung's son Sigmund came for him.
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Speaker 1: It seemed to be quite loose. When Odin went forth
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Speaker 1: to battle, he was resplendent in armor and a golden helmet.
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Speaker 1: With him were his messengers, the valkyrie giant warlike maids, who,
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Speaker 1: when in Valhalla, the home of Odin, brought in the
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Speaker 1: drink and waited upon the table, but in time of battle,
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Speaker 1: were sent forth by Odin to every battlefield, carrying the
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Speaker 1: message of death to the brave hero and inviting him
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Speaker 1: home to Odin's hall, a message he received with joy
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Speaker 1: and gladness, to bear away to heaven the souls of
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Speaker 1: the dead is often an office of a wind god,
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Speaker 1: and in this case of wind goddesses, for there can
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Speaker 1: be little doubt that the Valkyries had some of the
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Speaker 1: attributes of the Wind. The Norse god next in importance
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Speaker 1: to Odin was Thor. He wears a red beard, He
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Speaker 1: has a fiery nature, is girded with a belt of strength,
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Speaker 1: and swings a hammer in his hand. He rides in
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Speaker 1: a chariot drawn by two goats, from whose hoofs and
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Speaker 1: teeth sparks of fire flash, and the scarlet cloud reflects
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Speaker 1: his fiery eyes. Over his head he wears a crown
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Speaker 1: of stars. Under his feet rests the earth, and it
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Speaker 1: shows the footprints of his mighty steps. He is enormously
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Speaker 1: strong and very terrible when angry, which is not supposed
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Speaker 1: to be often, for he has on the whole a
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Speaker 1: good natured disposition. The region in which he lives is
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Speaker 1: called Trudvog, and his mansion Belscanner, in which there are
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Speaker 1: five hundred and forty halls. His hammer, his belt, and
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Speaker 1: his gauntlet are all possessed of remarkable qualities. The first
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Speaker 1: is called Meolenear, and woe be to the frost or
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Speaker 1: mountain giant of against whom Thor hurls it. His iron
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Speaker 1: gauntlet he wears when he is laying about him with
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Speaker 1: his hammer, and when he puts on his belt of strength,
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Speaker 1: his power is redoubled. This mighty god has many and
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Speaker 1: wonderful adventures. There is no better description of the god
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Speaker 1: Thor to be found than that by our own poet Longfellow,
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Speaker 1: in his Tales of a Wayside inn. I am the
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Speaker 1: god Thor, I am the war god. I am the thunderer.
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Speaker 1: Here in my northland, my fastness and fortress reign I forever.
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Speaker 1: Here amid Iceberg's rule. I the nations. This is my hammer, Meolnir.
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Speaker 1: The mighty giants and sorcerers cannot withstand it. These are
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Speaker 1: the gauntlets, wherewith I wield it 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: The light thou beholdest stream through the heavens and flashes
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Speaker 1: of crimson is but my red beard, blown by the
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Speaker 1: night wind of frighting the nations. Jove is my brother.
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Speaker 1: Mine eyes are the lightning, The wheels of my chariot
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Speaker 1: roll in the thunder, the blows of my hammer, ring
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Speaker 1: in the earthquake. How Thor conquered the stone giant Rung
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Speaker 1: near Thor had once gone eastward to crush trolls. But
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Speaker 1: Odin rode on his horse Sleep near to Jotenheim, the
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Speaker 1: land of giants, and came to a giant by name
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Speaker 1: Rung near. Then he asked, Rung Near, what man that was? Who,
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Speaker 1: with a helmet of gold, rode through the air and
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Speaker 1: over the sea, and added that it was an extraordinarily
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Speaker 1: good horse he had. Odin replied that he would wager
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Speaker 1: his head that so good a horse could not be
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Speaker 1: found in Yotenheim. Rung Near said that it was indeed
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Speaker 1: a very excellent horse, but he had one called gold Facts,
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Speaker 1: that could take much longer paces, and he immediately sprang
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Speaker 1: upon his horse and galloped away after Odin. Odin constantly
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Speaker 1: kept a head. But rung Near's giant nature had become
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Speaker 1: so excited that before he was himself aware of it,
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Speaker 1: he had come within the gates of Asgard. When he
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Speaker 1: came to the door of the hall, the gods invited
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Speaker 1: him him in to drink. They set before him the
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Speaker 1: bowls out of which Thor was accustomed to drink, and
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Speaker 1: he emptied them each in one draft, And so he
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Speaker 1: became drunk and began to boast in a most conceited fashion.
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Speaker 1: He was going to take val Hall, he said, and
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Speaker 1: carry it off to Yotenheim. He would demolish Asgard and
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Speaker 1: kill the gods except Freya and Lyff, whom he would
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Speaker 1: take home with him. And while Fraya was pouring the
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Speaker 1: celestial beverage into bowls, for him. He remarked that he
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Speaker 1: was going to drink up all the ale of the gods.
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Speaker 1: At last, the gods grew very tired of his arrogance.
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Speaker 1: They therefore called Thor, who came at once. He was
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Speaker 1: very much enraged, and swinging his hammer about. He fiercely
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Speaker 1: asked who was to blow claim that dog wise giants
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Speaker 1: should be permitted to drink there? Or who had given
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Speaker 1: safety to rung Near in valhall, and why Frayus should
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Speaker 1: pour l for him as she did at the feasts
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Speaker 1: of the gods. Rung Near, looking at Thor with anything
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Speaker 1: but a friendly eye, answered that Odin had invited him
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Speaker 1: and that he was under his protection. Thor said that
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Speaker 1: Rungnir should come to rue that invitation before he came out.
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Speaker 1: But the giant answered that it would be but little
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Speaker 1: honor to Thor to kill him, unarmed as he was.
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Speaker 1: It would be a better proof of his valor if
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Speaker 1: he dared contend with him at the boundaries of his territory.
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Speaker 1: It was foolish, indeed, of me to leave my weapons
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Speaker 1: at home. Had I my shield and my flint stone
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Speaker 1: with me, we would now try a duel. But I
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Speaker 1: declare you to be a coward, if you kill me unarmed,
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Speaker 1: Thor would not excuse himself from such a challenge, the
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Speaker 1: like of which no one had ever offered him before.
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Speaker 1: Rungnir now went his way and hastened home. This journey
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Speaker 1: of Rungnir was much talked of by the giants, and
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Speaker 1: especially did his challenge of Thor awaken their interest. And
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Speaker 1: it was of great importance to them which of the
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Speaker 1: two should come out from the combat victorious. For if Rungnir,
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Speaker 1: who was the most powerful among the giants, should be conquered,
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Speaker 1: they might look for nothing but evil from Thor. They
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Speaker 1: therefore made a man of clay nine miles high and
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Speaker 1: three miles broad. Between the shoulders. They could not find
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Speaker 1: a heart corus responding to his size, and therefore took
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Speaker 1: one out of a mare. But this fluttered and trembled
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Speaker 1: when Thor came. Rung Near had a heart of hard stone,
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Speaker 1: sharp and three cornered. His head was also of stone,
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Speaker 1: and likewise his shield, which was broad and thick, And
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Speaker 1: this shield he held before him when he stood waiting
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Speaker 1: for Thor. His weapon was a flint stone, which he
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Speaker 1: swung over his shoulders, so that it was no trifle
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Speaker 1: to join in combat. With him. By his side stood
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Speaker 1: the clay Giant, who was so extremely terrified that the
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Speaker 1: sweat poured off from him. Thor went to the duel
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Speaker 1: together with Thiolvi, a servant whom he had got from
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Speaker 1: a peasant by the sea. Thiolvi ran to the place
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Speaker 1: where rung Near was standing and said to him, you
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Speaker 1: stand unguarded giant. You hold the shield before you, but
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Speaker 1: Thor has seen you. He comes with violence from beneath
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Speaker 1: the earth and attacks you. Then rung Near hastily put
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Speaker 1: the shield beneath his feet and stood upon it. But
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Speaker 1: he seized his flint stone with both hands. Presently he
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Speaker 1: saw flashes of lightning and heard loud crashings. And then
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Speaker 1: he saw Thor, in his might, rushing forward with impetuous speed,
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Speaker 1: swinging his hammer and throwing it from the distance against
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Speaker 1: rung Near. The ladder lifted the flint stone with both
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Speaker 1: his hands and threw it with all his might against
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Speaker 1: the hammer. The two met in the air, and the
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Speaker 1: flint stone broke into two pieces, one piece of which
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Speaker 1: fell on the ground and hence the Flint Mountains, while
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Speaker 1: the other flew with such force against the head of
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Speaker 1: Thor that he fell forward to the ground, but the
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Speaker 1: hammer Meonir hit Rung near right in the head and
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Speaker 1: crushed his skull into small pieces, he himself falling over Thor,
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Speaker 1: so that his foot lay across Thor's neck. Thor could
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Speaker 1: only be released from the giant's foot by his own
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Speaker 1: son Munga strength, and to this day the flint stone
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Speaker 1: sticks fast in Thor's forehead. Longfellow calls Thor the brother
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Speaker 1: of Zeus. Zeus is, however, only like Thor in his
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Speaker 1: character of the Thunderer. As the all father of the Greeks,
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Speaker 1: he is like Odin. Zeus or Jupiter, as he was
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Speaker 1: called by the Romans, was regard guarded as the supreme
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Speaker 1: ruler of the universe. Sometimes he was pictured as a
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Speaker 1: god of war. Then he rode in his thunder car
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Speaker 1: hurling the thunderbolt or lashing his enemies with a scourge
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Speaker 1: of lightning. He wore a breastplate or shield of storm cloud,
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Speaker 1: like the skin of a gray goat, fearful to behold,
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Speaker 1: and made by the god of fire. His special messenger
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Speaker 1: was the Eagle. In his peaceful guise, he sat throned
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Speaker 1: in the high clear heavens. There he was the gatherer
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Speaker 1: of clouds and snows, the dispenser of gentle rains and winds,
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Speaker 1: the moderator of light and heat, and the seasons. He
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Speaker 1: was worshiped with various rites in different places, but everywhere,
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Speaker 1: the loftiest trees and the highest mountain peaks were sacred
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Speaker 1: to him. End of Chapter six, Part three,