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Updated: April 30, 2025
Horn asked them civilly what they wanted there, and one of the pagans answered insolently, "To conquer the land and slay all that dwell in it, as we did to King Altof, whose son now serves a foreign lord."
It came to pass one summer morning that good King Altof was riding on the sea-shore with only two attendants, and he looked out to sea and saw fifteen ships lying in the offing. It was the heathen Vikings who had come from Northland, bent on plundering Christian lands. When these saw the three Norsemen, they swarmed on to shore like a pack of wolves, all armed and full of battle fury.
Then cried Horn to the other guests, "The dance is over!" after which he proclaimed a truce, and, throwing himself down on a couch, spake thus to King Aylmer: "I was born in Southland, of a royal race. The pagan Vikings slew King Altof, my father, and put me out to sea with my twelve companions.
"Fate has swept all my kinsmen away," said he, "and now I must follow them." That was his last word, as his soul departed from his bosom, to join the company of the just. Of all Kings in the world, he was, said his men, the gentlest to his knights and the most desirous of honour. There dwelt once in Southland a King named Altof, who was rich, powerful, and gentle.
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