t ourselves against them. For their mother
will teach them wickedness, and still more quickly will they learn the
cunning wiles of their father. Fetch me them here, therefore, that I may
deal with them forthwith."

So, after somewhat of a struggle, the Asas captured the three
giant-children and brought them before Odin's judgment seat.

Then Odin looked first at Hela, and when he saw her gloomy eyes, full of
misery and despair, he was sorry, and dealt kindly with her, saying:
"Thou art the bringer of Pain to man, and Asgard is no place for such as
thou. But I will make thee ruler of the Mist Home, and there shalt thou
rule over that unlighted world, the Region of the Dead."

Forthwith he sent her away over rough roads to the cold, dark region of
the North called the Mist Home. And there did Hela rule over a grim
crew, for all those who had done wickedness in the world above were
imprisoned by her in those gloomy regions. To her came also all those
who had died, not on the battlefield, but of old age or disease. And
though these were treated kindly enough, theirs was a joyless life in
comparison with that of the dead warriors who were feasting and fighting
in the halls of Valhalla, under the kindly rule of All-Father Odin.

Having thus disposed of Hela, Odin next turned his attention to the
serpent. And when he saw his evil tongue and cunning, wicked eyes, he
said: "Thou art he who bringest Sin into the world of men; therefore the
ocean shall be thy home forever."

Then he threw that horrid serpent into the deep sea which surrounds all
lands, and there the creature grew so fast that when he stretched
himself one day he encircled all the earth, and held his own tail fast
in his mouth. And sometimes he grew angry to think that he, the son of a
god, had thus been cast out; and at those times he would writhe with his
huge body and lash his tail till the sea spouted up to the sky. And when
that happened the men of the North said that a great tempest was raging.
But it was only the serpent-son of Loki writhing in his wrath.

Then Odin turned to the third child. And behold! the Fenris Wolf was so
appalling to look upon that Odin feared to cast him forth, and he
decided to endeavor to tame him by kindness so that he should not wish
them ill.

But when he bade them carry food to the Fenris Wolf, not one of the Asas
would do so, for they feared a snap from his great jaws. Only the brave
Tyr had courage enough to feed him, a