The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-06

even a sip of the wonderful stream. they
turn away and come again no more"
Il have gone through TOO much to turn
back now" and god answered. IT would
give my right hand for horn of it."
1T is not your right hand, but your
right eye, that YOU must give" Mimir an
swered
And Che words were scarcely spoken
when Odin plucked out his eye and threw
it from him.
Mimir then gave him silver drinking
horn fun of the liquid and Odin quaffed it
10 the dregs. AS he returned the horn
he felt a fountain of wisdom spring up
within him, an inward light from the per-
ishable eye that he had lost
From this moment all was clear before
him. He knew exactly what he was to
do; and though it was no easy task, he
set forth to do it.
He commenced now the most terrible
journey he had yet undertaken; it was 10
go to the very end of the earth, to look
into Nihheim, to ponder on its mysteries
For this is what the wisdom within told
him
Odin then left Alimir; he left the tumb-
ling seas and journeyed northward where
the frost and ice locked the tumult into
silence. On he went, through fog, and
mist, and snow and ice, till he came be-
yond into twilight. And there he pressed
on till he came to where sobs, and signing,
and sorrow, and sadness filed the dark
ness; and still on, till human forms gave
place to wailing, unfinished shadows, fit
ting here and there in the semi-darkness.
And then Odin said:
This is the end of the earth. Soon
shall reach Nihheim."
And so he pressed onward, till he reach
or Nua ta- IL III g.lrr
of the earth; and, lying down on the edge,
he gazed down into the depths. AT first all
was darkness and void; but after lying
thus for three nights and three days, Odn
saw into Nifiheim; saw the root of the
great earth tree Yggdrasn, whose other
two roots spring, one from Jotunheim, one
from the heavenly nights, and whose
branches cover the whole universe.
Long did Odin gaze on the knotted fibres
of this mighty stem. He saw how it was
gnawed, all the time, by the serpent of
envy and his hideous brood of cares and
diseases. And after gazing longer, he
saw, beyond this, the shores of Nastrond,
with its corpses,, wandering pale, cold and
alone, up ana down, homeless and afraid.
Then he felt sick at heart, but he did
not draw back. He looked deeper and
deeper into this abyss of abysses; saw all
the evil and trouble that could rise to the
world; saw at the very depths the great
caldron boiling over.
And SO, for nine days and nine nights,
Odin hung over the void; and when he
arose, all wisdom was within him, and
with it all sorrow. But when is it 9TH
erwise? Do not strength and wisdom al
ways come TO us through suffering and
weeping.
Many times, on his road to Jotunheim,
Odin sighed, but the light within from
the fountain of wisdom showed him his
way clear. He soon came TO where the
monsters dwelt. three-headed giants,
frost giants, mountain giants, and dread
full monsters and iron-witches of every
description.
However, he scarcely looked at them,
but strobe on till he came to Jormungand,
the terrible son of Loki. He walked to
the very middle of the huge serpent, and
then grasping the body with all his might.
he caught it up, and hurled it into the
depths of the sea. There Jormungand
grew till he encirced the earth, and felt
his tail growing into his mouth. Then
he lay quiet, welding himself together
and gaining more strength and power in
the silence and darkness. And no one has
since been able to raise him from his bed
neither Odin nor any other. So he awaits
the twilight, when he will arise to battle
with the gods.
Odin then Turned his steps TO the witch
wife's house, followed by a great crowd
of curious giants, all anxious to see the
other children banished, but gloating over
the wickedness that needed a god 10 sub
due it,
He found the iron-witch sitting in her
home, with the house door open wide Her
wolf-son crouched beside her, and her
daughter, half queen, half corpse. The
giants behind peered over each other
shoulders, and laughed hideous discordant
laughs to see the witch and her son.
But when they looked at Hela. the
daughter, their noise was hushed they
grew white and cold They felt the blood
within them freeze into stone and they
became a great chain of giant mountains.
frozen to death by that look at Hela' S
face. But Odin stood unmoved, unframed.
Turning To Hela Odin said:
Maiden with the queenly head and
death-like mein, here no longer canst thou
dwell. A kingdom, however thou shalt
have as BELTS thee, but it is down, down in
Nihheim."
And Hela sunk from sight down nine
fathoms deep in Nihheim, where she reigns
over a kingdom nine Kingdoms wide. Her
subjects are the ghost-like corpses that
Odin saw over the brink and her kingdom
is called after her Helheim
Odin then turned to the wolf-son. Fen
ris.
Follow me-" he said, land if you be-
come obedient and tractable, and exchange
your ferocity for courage, you shall not he
banished as have been your brother and
sister 1 will take you with me to AS
gard, there to dwell"