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"It is not you who are shamed," answered Freydisa hotly. "It is Steinar and that ," and she used a harsh word of Iduna. "Oh! I saw it coming, and yet I dared not warn you. I feared lest I might be wrong and put doubts into your heart against your foster-brother and your wife without cause. May Odin destroy them both!" "Speak not so roughly, Freydisa," I said. "Ragnar was right about Iduna.
And what were the fates of Heliodore and of our children; of Martina and of Jodd? Also, was the prophecy of Odin, spoken through the lips of Freydisa in the temple at Aar, that he and his fellow gods, or demons, would prevail against my flesh and that of those who clung to me, fulfilled at last in the fires of martyrdom for the Faith, as his promise of my happiness was fulfilled? I cannot tell.
They had been searching for us at Aar, but in that darkness had found nothing. Only, at the head of the bridge was Freydisa, a torch in her hand. She glanced at me by the light of the torch. "As my heart foretold, so it is," she said. "Bring him in," then turned and ran to the house.
Freydisa returned and there was a strange smile on her dark face, for she had heard all our talk. "Who sleeps in that mound, Freydisa?" asked Iduna. "How can I tell, Lady, seeing that he was laid there a thousand years ago, or mayhap more? Yet a story, true or false, remains of him that I have heard. It is that he was a king of these parts, who followed a dream to the south.
So they went, and before they had been gone an hour the storm broke as I had foreseen. First came wind, and with it hail, and after that thunder and great darkness, lit up from time to time by pulsing lightning. "Steinar and Iduna do not return. I am afraid for them," I said at last to Freydisa. "Then why do you not go to seek them?" she asked with a little laugh. "I think I will," I said.
Because of the darkness we chose this latter road, and presently found ourselves beneath the great mass of the Wanderer's Mount. Now the darkness was intense, and the lightning grew rare, for the hail and rain had ceased and the storm was rolling away. "My counsel is," said Freydisa, "that we wait here until the moon rises, which it should do soon.
"Oh, that the folk had hearkened to me and made peace!" "Too late to talk of that now," said Freydisa, and we parted. This was our plan: To sail for Lesso by the moonlight, and when the moon went down to creep silently towards the shores of the island.
"How can I if she is for Olaf?" answered Steinar, smiling, as he left the place to make ready for his journey to Lesso. "What did you mean by those words, Freydisa?" I asked when he was gone. "Little or much," she replied, shrugging her shoulders.
I remember looking at a big mound which was said to cover a chief known as "The Wanderer," whom Freydisa, the wise woman, my nurse, told me had lived hundreds or thousands of years before, and thinking that so much earth over him must make him very hot at nights.
And, leaning forward, she kissed me solemnly upon the brow. After Freydisa and I had sought the oracle of Odin, three long ships of war sailed by the light of the moon from Fladstrand for Athalbrand's Isle of Lesso. I do not know when we sailed, but in my mind I can still see those ships creeping out to sea.
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