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And when I turned of a sudden, she set her hands together and held them out toward me as if she prayed, and cried to me: "Asa Thor! Asa Thor! will you leave me? Is there no place in Freya's hall in Gladsheim for a maiden, if to Asgard she may not come?" I had no answer.
But in a moment it occurred to me that it could be no one else but Freya's maid, a half-caste Malacca Portuguese. One caught fleeting glimpses of her olive face and dazzling white teeth about the house. I had observed her at times from a distance, as she sat within call under the shade of some fruit trees, brushing and plaiting her long raven locks.
Tuesday was consecrated to Tyr, a son of Odin; Wednesday, Odin's or Wooden's day, to Odin; Thursday, or Thor's day, to Thor; and Friday, or Freya's day, was sacred to the goddess Freya. THE LANGUAGE. The Scandinavian or Norse languages include the Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian dialects.
While speaking, she was patting Freya's great locks of hair, which had just escaped from underneath her hat, and Freya, adapting herself to the tenderness of the situation, cuddled down against the doctor, assuming the air of a timid and devoted child while she fixed on Ulysses her eyes of sweet promise. "You must love her very much, Captain," continued the matron. "Freya speaks only of you.
I am ignorant of what my own fate may be, but what is more important to me is your tranquillity." Her eyes filled with tears. She threw herself face downward on the divan, hiding her face in her arms, while a sobbing outburst set all the adorable curves of her back a-tremble. Touched by her grief, Ulysses at the same time admired Freya's shrewdness in divining all his thoughts.
She had brought back from her trip a portrait which she pressed lovingly against her vast bosom before showing it. "Look at it," she said to the two. "It is the hero whose name brings tears of enthusiasm to all Germans.... What an honor for our family!" Pride made her hasty, snatching the photograph from Freya's hand in order to pass it on to Ulysses.
But cunning Loki said, "I have thought of a trick that may win back the hammer from stupid Thrym. Let us pretend to send Freya to Jötunheim as a bride for him. But let one of the Gods go in Freya's veil and dress." "Which of the Gods would bring himself to do so shameful a thing?" said those in the Council.
"Forward, sea-wolf!"... He took her hand while she was speaking of the beauty of the solitary sea, and the hand yielded without protest to his caressing fingers. The doctor was far away and, sighing hypocritically, he encircled Freya's waist with his other arm while he inclined his head upon her open throat as though he were going to kiss her pearls.
If we think of the days of the week besides Sunday, or the "Sun's day," and Monday, the "Moon's day," we find Tuesday, "Tew's day," Wednesday, "Woden's day," Thursday, "Thor's day," Friday, "Freya's day," Saturday, "Saturn's day," and it would not be hard to guess that most of the days are called after gods or goddesses whom the English worshipped while they were still heathen, Tew was in the old English religion the bravest of all the gods, for he gave up his own arm to save the other gods.
He moved, acted, weary-eyed, keen-faced, lank and restless, with brusque movements and fierce gestures; he talked incessantly in a frenzied and fatigued voice, but within himself he knew that nothing would ever give him back the brig, just as nothing can heal a pierced heart. His soul, kept quiet in the stress of love by the unflinching Freya's influence, was like a still but overwound string.
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