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Did you know that it was I who followed you out of the hall that night, and listened to you from the shadows, and followed your trail the next sunrise, until I came upon the knife at Skroppa's very door? You never suspected that, Jarl's son. I was too cunning to let you put your teeth into me. Thorhall you could do no harm " "Wretched spy!
"Nevertheless, Skroppa's prophecy has come true," he muttered, "that after the blade was once sheathed in the new soil of Greenland, it would bring no more ill-luck." "Skroppa!" cried Alwin. But he got no further, for Sigurd's hand was clapped over his mouth. "Lower your voice when you speak that name, comrade," the Silver-Tongued warned him. "Do not speak it at all," Egil interrupted brusquely.
The only chance I have is with Leif." Helga wrung her hands violently. "You must be crazy if you think so! He would strike you down the instant his eyes " "It is not my intention that he shall know me until he has had cause to soften toward me. Do you not remember Skroppa's prophecy? has not Sigurd told you of it? that it is in this new untrodden country that my fate is to be decided?
Eric burst into a mighty roar of laughter. His voice, never greatly subdued, penetrated to every corner of the room. "I could stake my head that it is Leif's! I myself gave it to him for a name-fastening. And you found it in Skroppa's den? Oh, this is worth a hearing! Here is mirth! In Skroppa's den, Leif the Christian! Ho, Flein, Asmund, Adils, comrades, listen to this!
But Sigurd stiffened as quickly as he had relaxed. "One of Skroppa's! She swarms with them. See! Is not that a light down there?" A sudden flicker there certainly was, if it was not a ghost-fire.
As he put down the curious gilded vessel, he said in the soft voice that matched his face so well and his body so ill: "If you have a boon to ask of your foster-father, comrade, it is my advice that you forget all such pagan errors as that story of the curse. Egil, here, came near being spitted on Leif's sword for merely mentioning Skroppa's name." Alwin recognized the name with a start.
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