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At this crisis, while Noureddin, the Sultan of Aleppo, and Amalric, the Christian King of Jerusalem, were the rival powers in Syria, occurred a circumstance which exercised considerable influence on the subsequent course of events, and which makes necessary a retrospective glance.
So he made up his mind to see it, and be filled with the fruit of his own devices. And he would have been certainly filled with the same in five minutes more, in some shape too ugly to be mentioned: but, as even sinful women have hearts in them, Pelagia shrieked out 'Amalric! Amalric! do not let them! I cannot bear it! 'The warriors are free men, my darling, and know what is proper.
'For Amalric Amal's Son Smid Troll's Son Made Me. Wherein whether they spoke truth or not, yet their sacrilege did not remain unpunished; for attempting to return homeward toward the sea by way of the Nile, they were set upon while weighed down with wine and sleep, by the country people, and to a man miserably destroyed.
'What was good enough for an emperor's daughter must be good enough for her. 'Good enough? And Adolf only a Balt, while Amalric is a full-blooded Amal Odin's son by both sides? 'I don't know whether she would understand that. 'Then we would make her. Why not carry her off, and marry her to the Amal whether she chose or not? She would be well content enough with him in a week, I will warrant.
'He wants, of course, to carry her off and make a nun of her. 'You would not let him do such a thing to the poor child? 'If folks get in my way, Smid, they must go down. So much the worse for them: but old Wulf was never turned back yet by man or beast, and he will not be now. 'After all, it will serve the hussy right. But Amalric? 'Out of sight, out of mind.
His next step was to gain possession of Egypt, and thereby isolate the Latin Kingdom. Genoa, Pisa, and Venice, the three Italian republics who between them had command of the sea, were too selfish and too intent upon their commercial interests to interfere with the designs of the Saracens. The Latin king Amalric had for some years sought to gain a foothold in Egypt.
William of Champeaux, again, two hundred years later, maintained that "all individuality is one in substance, and varies only in its non-essential accidents and transient properties." Amalric of Bena and David of Dinant followed the theory out "into a thoroughgoing Pantheism." Amalric held that "All is God and God is all. The Creator and the creature are one Being.
Conrad of Montferat divorced the daughter of Isaac Angelus, Emperor of Constantinople, to marry Isabella, daughter of Amalric, King of Jerusalem, the bride repudiating her husband Henfrid of Thouars. Philip II. of France married the sister of the King of Denmark one day and divorced her the next; then married a German lady, left her, and returned to the repudiated Dane.
The language which they spoke was utterly unintelligible to Philammon, though it need not be so to us. 'A well-grown lad and a brave one, Wulf the son of Ovida, said the giant to the old hero of the bearskin cloak; 'and understands wearing skins, in this furnace-mouth of a climate, rather better than you do. 'I keep to the dress of my forefathers, Amalric the Amal.
'I will go to the world's end with you, my king! sighed Pelagia; 'but Alexandria is certainly pleasanter than this. Old Wulf sprang up fiercely enough. 'Hear me, Amalric the Amal, son of Odin, and heroes all! When my fathers swore to be Odin's men, and gave up the kingdom to the holy Annals, the sons of the Aesir, what was the bond between your fathers and mine?
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