Fenris, the Wolf: A Tragedy

FENRIS, THE WOLF
A TRAGEDY
BY PERCY MACKAYE
AUTHOR OF “THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS”
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. 1905 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1905, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1905.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO NORMAN HAPGOOD CRITIC AND FRIEND
AUTHOR’S NOTE
For dramatic reasons, various liberties have been taken by the writer with those elements of this play which are drawn from Scandinavian mythology. For example, according to mythology, the Fenris-wolf is the offspring, not of Odin, but of Loki; the wolf and Baldur are not brothers; no mention is made of the wolf’s Pack. Moreover, in the Old Icelandic utterances of the Pack—for purposes of sound merely—a preterite form has twice been used for a present tense, as in Ulfr sofnathi , “the wolf sleepeth.”
Where authenticity, however, has harmonised with the dramatic idea, it has equally been the writer’s aim.