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FENRIS, THE WOLF

FENRIS, THE WOLF

A TRAGEDY

BY
PERCY MACKAYE

AUTHOR OF “THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS”

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1905
All rights reserved

The invocation of Ingimund to Odin, on page 38, is adaptedfrom Fragments of a Spell Song, preserved as an insertion in the GreatPlay 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 writerwith those elements of this play which are drawn from Scandinavianmythology. For example, according to mythology, the Fenris-wolf isthe offspring, not of Odin, but of Loki; the wolf and Baldur are notbrothers; no mention is made of the wolf’s Pack. Moreover, in the OldIcelandic utterances of the Pack—for purposes of sound merely—apreterite form has twice been used for a present tense, as in Ulfrsofnathi, “the wolf sleepeth.”

Where authenticity, however, has harmonised with the dramatic idea,it has equally been the writer’s aim.

  Cornish, N.H., March, 1905.