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One day as they were out hunting, Heidreker and his foster-son happened to be separated from the rest of the party, when a wild boar appeared before them. Heidreker ran at him with his spear, but the beast caught it in his mouth and broke it across. Then he alighted and drew Tirfing, and killed the boar.
Then he turned to Peter, and for a minute the two men stood looking furtively at one another, as though each were trying to read his companion's thoughts. Finally, the wood-carver spoke. "I grieve, Master Burkgmäier," he said, with courteous sympathy, "that you should have lost your foster-son, to whom report says you were much attached.
In the spring of the previous year Wolf had again been summoned from Valladolid, where in the winter he directed the church singing as prinnen of the religious music, to Cuacos, near San Yuste, where Quijada's wife lived with her foster-son Geronimo. From there he had often gone with Dona Magdalena and the boy to the Emperor's residence, and frequently saw him.
"There are times when she is as of old, and speaks to me with calmness. But at these better hours she makes no mention of the past." "She never talks, then, of returning to the palace?" continued Alayn, with an evident air of satisfaction upon his round ruddy face. "Never," replied the girl, with an involuntary sigh. "And yet her foster-son, the king, has often sent for her."
Alwin deposited the last curd in the last bowl, and stood licking the horn-spoon, and looking doubtfully at the other. "Do you mean by that that you have a right to give him orders? I have heard that in the North a foster-son does not treat his foster-father as his superior, but as his servant. Yet Leif did not look to be " Sigurd shouted with laughter. "He did not!
The young unknown served them food, and made them drunk with awa, and, according to the usage of those times, gave up to them the women of Kaleihokuu, that his hospitality might be complete. The next morning the old men saw Kaleihokuu, and said to him, "Here we have come to become acquainted with your foster-son.
Mindest thou not? There are more than I alive that remember it. "'Yea, said I, 'I remember it well. "For indeed, foster-son, these were the very three of whom I told thee, though I told thee not their names. "'Well, said I; 'how sped they? Came they back, or any of them? 'Nay, she said, 'that were scarce to be looked for. Said I: 'Have any other to thy knowledge gone on this said quest?
So they turned from the bridge together; and Stone-face was kind and fatherly, and was telling his foster-son many wise things concerning the life of a chieftain, and the giving-out of dooms and the gathering for battle; to all which talk Face-of-god seemed to hearken gladly, but indeed hearkened not at all; for verily his eyes were beholding that snowy waste, and the fair woman upon it; even such an one as Stone-face had told of.
Eric was forced to flee. For some time he was in Northumberland; he fell in the west while freebooting, about A.D. 950. KING HACON, Athelstan's foster-son, long ruled over Norway; but in the latter part of his life Eric's sons came to Norway, and strove with him for the kingdom. They had battles together, wherein Hacon ever won the victory.
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