Padraic Colum
Born
in Longford, Ireland
December 08, 1881
Died
January 11, 1972
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The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
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1920
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118 editions
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The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
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1918
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246 editions
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The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
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published
1921
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181 editions
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The King of Ireland's Son
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1916
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108 editions
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A Treasury of Irish Folklore
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published
1954
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21 editions
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Great Myths of the World
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published
1930
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51 editions
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The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery
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published
1925
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9 editions
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The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said
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1918
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59 editions
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Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter
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1920
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56 editions
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The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes
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1919
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35 editions
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“Odin took the horn in both his hands and drank and drank. And as he drank all the future became clear to him. He saw all the sorrows and troubles that would fall upon Men and Gods. But he saw, too, why the sorrows and troubles had to fall, and he saw how they might be borne so that Gods and Men, by being noble in the days of sorrow and trouble, would leave in the world a force that one day, a day that was far off indeed, destroy the evil that brought terror and sorrow and despair into the world.”
― The Children of Odin
― The Children of Odin
“He was Loki, a being who only half belonged to the Gods; his father was the Wind Giant.”
― The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths
― The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths
“Thor looked out on the two great rolling rivers of cloud. It was a bad way for one to go, cold and suffocating. Yet if he went that way he could keep on his shoulder the hammer which he would not leave in another's charge. He stept out into the Cloud River that flowed by the Rainbow Bridge, and with his hammer upon his shoulder he went struggling on to the other river.
Odin, Tyr, and Baldur were beside Urda's Well when Thor came struggling out of the Cloud River, wet and choking, but with his hammer still upon his shoulder. There stood Tyr, upright and handsome, leaning on his sword that was inscribed all over with magic runes; there stood Baldur, smiling, with his head bent as he listened to the murmur of the two fair swans; and there stood Odin All-Father, clad in his blue cloak fringed with golden stars, without the eagle-helmet upon his head, and with no spear in his hands.”
― THE CHILDREN OF ODIN: The Book of Northern Myths
Odin, Tyr, and Baldur were beside Urda's Well when Thor came struggling out of the Cloud River, wet and choking, but with his hammer still upon his shoulder. There stood Tyr, upright and handsome, leaning on his sword that was inscribed all over with magic runes; there stood Baldur, smiling, with his head bent as he listened to the murmur of the two fair swans; and there stood Odin All-Father, clad in his blue cloak fringed with golden stars, without the eagle-helmet upon his head, and with no spear in his hands.”
― THE CHILDREN OF ODIN: The Book of Northern Myths
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