"You have used it much … and you have used it well."
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Odin, the shopkeeper, to Peter, upon the relinquishing of the ship, in Ch. 16 : The Flying-ship Goes Home
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The Ship that Flew
The Ship that Flew (1939) is an acclaimed children's fantasy novel by Hilda Lewis, which tells of some of the journeys of four children across the world and through ages of time in a magic ship, sold to the eldest of them by Odin in disguise, which they come to discover had belonged to the Norse god Frey, and was called Skidbladnir.
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