IN THE DAYS OF GIANTS

"I AM THE GIANT SKRYMIR" (page 150)

IN THE DAYS OF
GIANTS

A BOOK OF
NORSE TALES BY ABBIE
FARWELL BROWN

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY E. BOYD SMITH

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

Published April, 1902

NOW I LIKE A REALLY GOOD SAGA, ABOUT GODS AND GIANTS, AND THE FIRE KINGDOMS, AND THE SNOW KINGDOMS, AND THE ÆSIR MAKING MEN AND WOMEN OUT OF TWO STICKS, AND ALL THAT.

KINGSLEY'S HYPATIA

[CONTENTS]

		PAGE
I.	The Beginning of Things	[1]
II.	How Odin Lost His Eye	[11]
III.	Kvasir's Blood	[21]
IV.	The Giant Builder	[35]
V.	The Magic Apples	[50]
VI.	Skadi's Choice	[70]
VII.	The Dwarf's Gifts	[80]
VIII.	Loki's Children	[98]
IX.	The Quest of the Hammer	[110]
X.	The Giantess Who Would Not	[132]
XI.	Thor's Visit to the Giants	[146]
XII.	Thor's Fishing	[172]
XIII.	Thor's Duel	[192]
XIV.	In the Giant's House	[208]
XV.	Balder and the Mistletoe	[226]
XVI.	The Punishment of Loki	[243]

Six of these Tales, namely, The Magic Apples, The Dwarf's Gifts, The Quest of the Hammer, In the Giant's House, Balder and the Mistletoe, and The Punishment of Loki are, by the courteous permission of the publishers of The Churchman, reprinted from that magazine.

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

	PAGE
"I am the giant Skrymir" (page 150)	[Frontispiece]
He flapped away with her, magic apples and all	[62]
The third gift—an enormous hammer	[88]
"Ah, what a lovely maid it is!"	[122]
Each arrow overshot his head	[232]
"Kill him! Kill him!"	[256]