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Excerpt from The Saint-Clairs of the Isles: Being a History of the Sea-Kings of Orkney and Their Scottish Successors of the Sirname of Sinclair
With the body of the giant Odin made the world. The sea and waters are his blood earth his ?esh the rocks his bones; pebbles his teeth and jaws; his skull was raised aloft and the heavens were made of it the clouds are his brains. But the sun, moon, and stars are formed of the fires which came out of Muspell. These Odin fixed in the heavens, and ordered their goings. Odin, the father of all next made man, and gave him a soul which shall never perish, though the body decay.
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