Word: loki
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...dwarfs shuffled their twisted, contorted bodies about the money markets of Manhattan last week. They were the blue-gummed, loose-wristed, grimacing gentry who ages ago clambered out of gloomy, endless pits in Saxony, bearing queer ores, green and blue and variegated, ores which they melted down with Loki's fires and pounded with Thor's hammer into shapes useful for the villagers...
...Meet Him . . . Is Disappointing There has always been something immediately stirring, especially romantic for me in the mere mention of a Norwegian fjord. Perhaps that is because Thor and Loki were companions of earliest childhood. Nor will I ever forget the surveys and power of the first chapter of The Great Hunger. It had the breadth of sky and the mystery of rock and sea. To meet the author of such a book is necessarily a little disappointing. Bojer is slow, slight, would be almost dapper, were it not for keenness of eye, vigor of movement and ruggedness of countenance...