Produced by MFR, For Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) The Junior Classics, Volume 2: Folk Tales and Myths [Illustration: _Junior Classics_ THE·YOUNG·FOLKS’ SHELF·OF·BOOKS _P·F·Collier·&·Son Corporation_ _New York_] [Illustration: AH, NAUGHTY PANDORA!—page 351 _From the painting by Maxfield Parrish_] THE JUNIOR CLASSICS SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM PATTEN MANAGING EDITOR OF THE HARVARD CLASSICS INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL.D. PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY WITH A READING GUIDE BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, Ph.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT SMITH COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON, MASS., SINCE 1917 VOLUME TWO _Folk Tales and Myths_ [Illustration] P. F. COLLIER & SON CORPORATION NEW YORK Copyright, 1912 By P. F. COLLIER & SON Copyright, 1918 By P. F. COLLIER & SON Acknowledgments of permission given by authors and publishers for the use of copyright material appear in Volume 10 MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A. TC CONTENTS PAGE NOTE 8 STORIES FROM NORTHERN SAGAS The Northmen’s Story of How All Things Began _E. M. Wilmot-Buxton_ 9 How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men _E. M. Wilmot-Buxton_ 17 The Dwarfs and the Fairies _A. and E. Keary_ 21 How Thor Went to Jötunheim _A. and E. Keary_ 26 How Thor’s Hammer Was Lost and Found _E. M. Wilmot-Buxton_ 40 Iduna’s Apples of Youth _A. and E. Keary_ 51 How the Fenris Wolf Was Chained _E. M. Wilmot-Buxton_ 72 The Story of Balder the Beautiful _E. M. Wilmot-Buxton_ 80 The Wonderful Quern Stones _Julia Goddard_ 91 THE STORY OF BRUNHILDA AND SIEGFRIED