Excerpt from History of Germany in Words of One Syllable Then there was the god Thor or Thun-der, as some knew him. He was said to be brave, and when a boy babe was born they would make the sign of T on him, 'and in some tribes he would be laid on a shield and fed for the first time from the point of the sword. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.