Word: odin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ODIN IN FAIRYLAND-Olav Duun- Knopf...
...fourth U. S. installment of The People of Juvik, a six-volume Norwegian "saga," Author Duun's story tells of young Odin's adventures in a fairyland whose marches lie more in his own nature than in the Norwegian countryside. Though he is only a bastard Juviking, enough corpuscles of that great family's blood tingle in his veins to make them burn intermittently with mischievous, heroic, un earthly music...
...little Odin is taken by his mother to work as herdboy for Bendek and his strange dark wife Gurianna at Kjelvik on the sea. On that lonely farm where, frosty winter evenings, the housedog runs barking at some invisible menace along the blackened beach, Odin works hard to be a man like Bendek in the inhuman countryside. Once, out picking cloud berries, he is attacked by mountain trolls. He beats them off with a switch, only to find that they are the Jörnstrand boys from over the hill. And so he meets their sister Karen-Anna...
...Keniston '04, T. W. Lamont '92, J. A. Lowell '91, F. B. Lund '88, K. L. Mark '98, L. C. Marshall '01, O. L. Mills '04, G. R. Noyes '94, R. B. O'Brien '91, A. S. Pease '02, A. J. Peters '95, David Rapport '12, Odin Roberts '86, W. C. Schumb '14, W. A. Seavey '02, H. R. Shepley '09, E. S. Thurston '98, Eliot Wadsworth '98, E. A. Whitman '81, D. V. Widder '20, B. L. Young...
...Odin Roberts '86, was the first to address the club, speaking on the work of Sir James Jeans, who was guest of honor at the dinner. Miss Margaret Har wood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, discussed the present state of knowledge concerning the major planet Pluto and the asteroid Eros, both of which have been closely studied of recent months. Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, followed with a talk-on the next New England major eclipse, predicted for August 31, 1932, indicated the eclipse weather prospects and probable meteoric conditions...