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men.html">Men knew so well what the King himself had done in that
perhaps they might find that he had forgotten nothing of his oldtime
country to the other.
Now, Edith Fairhair sat in the highseat when this was told, and she
his hand, with the firelight flashing from his mail.html">mail.html">mail, and listened.
other's eyes, and both laughed softly, each reading the same thought.
"Would'st care to go, Edith?"
"Far hast thou.html">thou sailed, Ulf, and much hast thou seen. Yet Vik-mouth is
Ulf looked more carefully into the strength of his longship.html">longship that week
board which he did not test with his own fingers, and send to the
he? While the men he chose for the crew were the sturdiest, toughest,
them was fit to command a longship if the captain was laid low. And
if need be, to win a battle without orders. And in a safe hiding-place
brimming with questions, too excited to sit still. It was her first
life, explaining things that he knew about and forgetting to answer
Ulf looked at Edith and felt.html">felt a sudden thrill which he had never felt
could not replace.
On came the enemy's craft.html">craft with the swift confidence of many a capture.
wind, even backing water a little. That stern, silent figure standing
glittering mail, the dragon-crest on the helmet, that too had he seen
stars that his had not been the ship which the man in mail had
cheek turned a little pale.
The vessels drifted a little nearer, and the stranger hailed,
"Art thou not Ulf, of Sigurd's Vik?"
"Yea!"
A flutter swept through the stranger-craft, and a pause. Its. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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