"Why, the grass makes it green."
"What color will it be in winter?"
"Why, white with snow, of course."
"And in the fall, Hilda?"
"Oh, I know now what you mean by Frigga is the ground, isn't she?"
"Not the ground, but the earth. Woden, with his one all-seeing eye and his mantle of blue and gray, is the sky, and Thor, with his streaming red beard and his crashing hammer, is the thunder."
"Oh, mother, how strange it is that such a story should come just from the word Wednesday! I am glad that I am a Norwegian."
[JUPITER, GOD OF THE SOUTHERN SKY]
Roman
"Why do they call the eagle Jupiter's bird, Miss Folsom?"