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  1. Neil Gaiman _ Norse Mythology

    He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes. "I
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ Norse Mythology

    They heard a distant rumbling, like thunder on the peaks, or mountains crumbling, or huge waves crashing to shore, and the earth shook with each rumble."My husband is coming home," said the giantess. "I hear his gentle footsteps in the distance.
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ Norse Mythology

    There, that wasn't as bad as I had feared," he said cheerfully. "I've got my hammer back. And I had a good dinner. Let's go home.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ Norse Mythology

    Each insult is woven with just enough truth to make it wound.
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ Norse Mythology

    I borrowed a copy of by Roger Lancelyn Green and read and reread it with delight and puzzlement: Asgard, in this telling, was no longer a Kirbyesque Future City but was a Viking hall and collection of buildings out on the frozen wastes; Odin the all-father was no longer gentle, wise, and irascible, but instead he was brilliant, unknowable, and dangerous; Thor was just as strong as the Mighty Thor in the comics, his hammer as powerful, but he was . . . well, honestly, not the brightest of the gods; and Loki was not evil, although he was certainly not a force for good. Loki was . . . complicated.
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  6. Neil Gaiman _ Norse Mythology

    When the all-father in eagle form had almost reached the vats, with Suttung immediately behind him, Odin blew some of the mead out of his behind, a splattery wet fart of foul-smelling mead right in Suttung's face, blinding the giant and throwing him off Odin's trail.No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's ass.
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ Norse Mythology

    This will be the age of cruel winds, the age of people who become as wolves, who prey upon each other, who are no better than wild beasts. Twilight will come to the world, and the places where the humans live will fall into ruins, flaming briefly, then crashing down and crumbling into ash and devastation.
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ Norse Mythology

    A squirrel, Ratatosk, lives in the branches of the world-tree. It takes gossip and messages from Nidhogg, the dread corpse-eater, to the eagle and back again. The squirrel tells lies to both of them, and takes joy in provoking anger.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ Norse Mythology

    One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irritably into the middle of the flames, which made Thor feel slightly better and made all the dwarfs feel much worse.
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