Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
The Story Of Thursday.

The Story of Thursday.
What do you suppose was the name
of Thursdays god? Thursday was
Thor's day. He was called The
Thunderer, also.
Thor was Odin's eldest son and the
strongest of all the gods of men.
There were three things which help
ed him very much in being strong.
The first was a wonderful hammer,
which could break almost anything.
But that was not the only way in
which this hammer was marvellous.
If one of us should throw hammer
at anything or anybody, even if it
should strike where it was aimed, it
would fall right there where it struck.
But when Thor threw his, it always
flew back to his hand, and was ready
to strike another blow if he should
want to do it.
The second was belt. And when
Thor buckled this belt around his waist
he was just twice as strong as he had
been before.
If you We're the strongest person who
had ever lived, it would not seem
necessary to have belt like that.
The third was pair of iron gloves.
He always wore those when he wanted
to use his hammer.
These three treasures had way of
getting him into trouble. You see the
other giants and gods used 10 envy
him. And envy has always been able
to make many quarrels and disputes.
So once when Thor's hammer was
lost, and a giant named Thrym found
it, he was very glad to keep it.
But where should he put it so Thor
would not find it? 1t must have been
hard to hide anything from their gods,
for they could see so far and knew SO
much.
Thrym thought long time and at
last buried it very deep under hard
rocks.
Thor sent Loki to look for it, but
when he got to Thrym's, he said he
would never return the hammer unless
the goddess Freya would promise to
marry him.
When Freya heard this she was not
pleased at ALL
Probably she thought, that as she
had had nothing to do with losing the
hammer. it was little hard to punish
her by making her marry the giant.
Indeed, guess she would rather
have had Thor lose it altogether. At
all events, she said she would not
marry Thrym.
Thor did not know what to do. He
feared he would never get his ham,
.mer again.
At last Loki persuaded Thor to go
to Thryms home with him. Probably
Thor thought that would do little good.
But Loki explained that he was to
dress in Freyas clothes and deceive
Thrym. So together they set off on
their journey.
Thrym was very glad to see Freya,
his beautiful bride as he supposed.
He gaye orders to the servants that
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per.
When they went out to eat, Freya
seemed very hungry, and Thrym was
much surprised to see her eat eight
salmon and a full grown OK.
I am afraid Thrym was not real po-
lite. for he remarked something about
how large an appetite Freya had.
But Loki said that was only because
they had made such a long journey
without stopping to get anything to
eat.
So g.s-;m said no more then. But
after little while, he raised the veil
so that he might look at Freya's race,
and was surprised to see how her
ewes glared. Still he had no idea that
it was Thor.
Then Loki told him that now 1t was
time for him to keep his part OF the
agreement and bring the hammer to
his bride. So Thrym did as he was
hidden. and laid the hammer in her
lap.