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Updated: June 23, 2025
And I beg you, oh, queen! to deal kindly with this king's son so hardly dealt with, and to deal with King Valdemar concerning him that his life may be spared." Then Queen Allogia answered, looking on the lad, that she would do as Sigurd wished. "And now," she added, "tell me how it came to pass that the boy was ever brought across the sea to Esthonia."
"His name is Lodin, and he went oft on trading voyages aboard a ship which he owned himself. On a certain summer he made east for Esthonia and there did much business. Now, in the marketplace of one of the Esthonian seaports many thralls were brought for sale, and, among other thralls who were to be sold, Lodin saw a certain woman.
Tsar Peter conquered it from the Swedes. To the north is the province of Revel and Esthonia, also conquered from the Swedes by Peter. The Gulf of Finland borders Esthonia; and here at this junction of the Neva and Lake Ladoga is the city of Petersburg, the youngest and the fairest of the cities of the empire, built by Peter in spite of a mass of obstacles.
Before it was received Germany declared that Poland, Lithuania, Courland, and parts of Esthonia and Livonia i.e. the conquered provinces of Russia had already expressed their "self-determination" in favour of separation from Russia and protection by Germany; and on 2 January Trotzky indignantly denounced these "hypocritical peace proposals."
Hard fighting is going on in Siberia; victories and defeats have just been reported from the Caucasus; battles between Bolshevists and peace-lovers are raging in Esthonia; blood is flowing in streams in the Ukraine; Poles and Czechs have only now signed an agreement to sheath swords until the Conference announces its verdict; the Poles and the Germans, the Poles and the Ukrainians, the Poles and the Bolshevists, are still decimating each other's forces on territorial fragments of what was once Russia, Germany, or Austria."
Innocent III, however, gave the ecclesiastical supervision of Esthonia to the Danish Archbishop of Lund. But when the Danish King attempted to follow this up by asserting a political authority his forces were defeated by the Esthonians.
Then the king asked Sigurd what prize he had staked, and Sigurd answered: "The prize was staked many months ago when I met Klerkon over in Esthonia, and it was arranged that if the viking's horse should overcome mine he was to take the young thrall Ole." "Let the boy be given up to him, then," said the king; "for he has won him very fairly."
After the submission of the Venedi, the conqueror advanced, without resistance, as far as the confines of the Æstii; an ancient people, whose name is still preserved in the province of Esthonia. Those distant inhabitants of the Baltic coast were supported by the labors of agriculture, enriched by the trade of amber, and consecrated by the peculiar worship of the Mother of the Gods.
"The vikings brought her into Esthonia from west over sea. I have not had tidings of her since I was a little child." The queen smiled at him pityingly. "And what of your father?" she asked. Olaf shook his head, and looked vacantly at the queen's beautiful hands with their many gold rings. "I never knew my father, lady," he replied, "for he was dead before I came into the world."
Everywhere else all along the Baltic coast, in Esthonia, in Carelia, and in Courland though the Swedes might be driven out, the Germans still remained firmly settled; the neighborhood of their native country and of the springs of Teutonic culture enduing them with an invincible power of resistance.
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