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Then gave I myself to the sea, but the billows thereof cast me out aland, and to this king then was I given; then gave I Swanhild away out of the land with mighty wealth; and lo, my next greatest sorrow after Sigurd, for under horses' feet was she trodden and slain; but the grimmest and ugliest of woes was the casting of Gunnar into the Worm-close, and the hardest was the cutting of Hogni's heart from him.
Now the river took him up to his breast forthwith, and a great ice-floe drave against him, but he put forth the hand that was free and thrust it from him; then it grew so deep, that the stream broke on his shoulder; but he waded through it stoutly, till he came to the further shore, and there cast them aland: then he turned back, and it was twilight already by then he came home to Sand-heaps, and called for his meat.
Why should not I go, since there are men to bear me aboard?" Said Hallblithe, "And when thou art come aland there, what wilt thou do?" "Thou shalt see, my son," said the Long-hoary. "It may be that thy good wishes shall be of avail to me.
"<i>All things bide their day</i>," said Thorbiorn, "and an ill day thou bidest." "I am content to risk it," said Grettir; and in such wise they parted, and Thorbiorn went home. <i>How Noise let the fire out on Drangey, and how Grettir must needs go aland for more</i>.
Gortz undertook to adjust all difference between the czar and the king of Sweden within three months; and Peter engaged to suspend all operations against Sweden until that term should be expired. A congress was opened at Abo, between the Swedish and Russian ministers, but the conferences were afterwards removed to Aland.
The company advised that if it pleased him, they might put themselves aland, some place to the Eastward to get victuals, and rather hope for courtesy from the country-people, than continue at sea, in so long cold, and great a storm in so leaky a pinnace.
All that remained of it was the following: 62 Bri gow sink stra aland skipp Gr that monit of long and ssistance lost "There's not much to be made out of that," said the Major, looking disappointed. "No, but it is good English anyhow," returned the captain. "There's no doubt of it," said Glenarvan.
Therewith she cast off her helm and hauberk first, and her weapons, and her pouch with the treasure that could buy nought for her now, and thereafter all her raiment, till she was as naked as when she first came aland there that other time.
They were to start at midnight, and would reach Bomarsund, on the main island of Aland, on the following evening, wait there for twenty-four hours to rest the animals, and would reach the mainland the next day. The frost continued unbroken, and they crossed the gulf without difficulty, travelled rapidly across Sweden, and reached England without adventure of any kind.
"Ah!" said the geographer, with a loud exclamation. "What is the matter?" asked the Major. "Nothing, nothing," replied Paganel. Then he muttered to himself, "Aland! aland! aland!" He had got up and seized the newspaper. He shook it in his efforts to keep back the words that involuntarily rose to his lips.
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