E-text prepared by Paul Marshall, Mary Glenn Krause, MFR, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) FENRIS, THE WOLF FENRIS, THE WOLF A TRAGEDY BYPERCY MACKAYE PERCY MACKAYE AUTHOR OF “THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS” New YorkTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. 1905All rights reserved Ltd. Copyright, 1905, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Copyright, 1905, Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1905. Norwood PressJ. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. TONORMAN HAPGOOD CRITIC AND FRIEND AUTHOR’S NOTE The invocation of Ingimund to Odin, on page 38, is adapted from Fragments of a Spell Song, preserved as an insertion in the Great Play of the Wolsungs, and to be found, both original and translation, in the Corpus Poeticum Boreale of Vigfusson and Powell, Oxford, 1883. For dramatic reasons, various liberties have been taken by the writer with those elements of this play which are drawn from Scandinavian mythology. For example, according to mythology, the Fenris-wolf is the offspring, not of Odin, but of Loki; the wolf and Baldur are not brothers; no mention is made of the wolf’s Pack. Moreover, in the Old Icelandic utterances of the Pack—for
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