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Shivering, yet regardless of the snow that began to fall thickly, he kept his post, staring, staring in drear fascination across the Fjord, where the Valkyrie drifted, now a mass of flame blown fiercely by the wind, and gleaming red through the flaky snow-storm. The aurora borealis faded by gradual degrees, and the flaming ship was more than ever distinctly visible.
Olaf at once mans two big ships, steers through the narrow mouth of the said fjord, moors one ship on the north shore, another on the south; fixes a strong cable, well sunk under water, to the capstans of these two; and in all quietness waits for Hakon.
A broad figure, surmounted by a sou'wester, loomed up in the dark. "What do you want?" asked Mr. Holt, with forced calmness. "I want to know," answered a gruff, hoarse voice, "if you'll come to my son now, and help him into eternity?" The pastor recognized Atle Pilot's voice, though it seemed harsher and hoarser than usual. "Sail across the fjord on a night like this?" he exclaimed.
Then my uncle, myself, and guide, two boatmen and the four horses got into a very awkward flat-bottom boat. Accustomed as I had been to the steam ferry boats of the Elbe, I found the long oars of the boatmen but sorry means of locomotion. We were more than an hour in crossing the fjord; but at length the passage was concluded without accident. Half an hour later we reached Gardar.
We shipped our carrioles and sent them off in the larger boat, delaying our own departure until we had fortified ourselves with a good breakfast, and laid in some hard bread and pork omelette, for the day. The Gudvangen Fjord, down which we now glided over the glassy water, is a narrow mountain avenue of glorious scenery.
What the devil could have happened?" There was no answer to the question. After an hour spent in studying the formations along the lip of the cleft they made a detour eastward to the shore, crossed the fjord that ran into the canyon, and again kept to the north.
The dark heavens were torn asunder, and through them streamed flaring pennons of light, waving, trembling, dancing, luminous ribbons of red, blue, green, and a delicious amber, like the flowing of golden wine, wider, higher, more dazzlingly lustrous, the wondrous glory shone aloft, rising upward from the horizon thrusting long spears of lambent flame among the murky retreating clouds, till in one magnificent coruscation of resplendent beams a blazing arch of gold leaped from east to west, spanning the visible breath of the Fjord, and casting towards the white peaks above, vivid sparkles and reflections of jewel-like brightness and color.
Grettir stayed in Vagar till the trading ships left, and then sailed South with some of the traders, as far as the port of Gartar at the mouth of the Thrandheim's Fjord, where he set up the awnings to make a stay. When they were settled down a ship came up along the coast from the South, which they at once recognised as one of the ships from England.
All snow and darkness at the Altenfjord! How strange the picture seemed! She thought of her mother's sepulchre, how cold and dreary it must be, she could see in fancy the long pendent icicles fringing the entrance to the sea-king's tomb, the spot where she and Philip had first met, she could almost hear the slow, sullen plash of the black Fjord against the shore.
The tide had turned, and the fresh water of the lake, mingled with the salt water of the fjord, was swirling and eddying under the bridges and beating against the stone quays; for Lake Mälar is only eighteen inches higher than the Salt Sea, and while the incoming tide brings salt water up the river from the ocean, the outgoing tide carries fresh water down from the lake.
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