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'I think you've lost your wits, both the Prince and you', said she. 'Do you think I look fit to stand in the bride's place? look at me! Can any beggar's trull look worse than I? 'Well, the Prince said you were to go, and so go you must', said Hacon Grizzlebeard.
Nor is another female character less tenderly drawn in Hacon Grizzlebeard, No. vi, where we see the proud, haughty princess subdued and tamed by natural affection into a faithful, loving wife.
Well! she would give him leave, if he only gave his word to be quiet, and make no noise. So he said he would do his best to be still; but as the night wore on, he began to shiver and shake so, that his teeth chattered again. 'Hutetutetutetu! it is so bitter cold! Oh, do let me get into bed and warm myself a little', said Hacon Grizzlebeard.
Grizzlebeard is telling, according to his oath, in a most serious fashion the story of his first love. Myself. "What did he manufacture?" Grizzlebeard. "Rectified lard; and so well, let me tell you, that no one could compete with him." Let the reader explain, if he can, the comic effect of that startling irrelevance; we cannot, but it is characteristic.
We cannot here analyse this book in any detail, nor would its framework bear so pedantic an insistence. The writer describes how, sitting in an inn just within the Kentish borders of Sussex he determined to walk across the county, admiring it by the way, and so to find his own home. He is joined on the road by three companions, Grizzlebeard, the Sailor, and the Poet.
A few days after Hacon Grizzlebeard came home at even and said: 'To-morrow I must stay at home and mind the babe, for they are going to kill a pig at the palace, and you must help to make the sausages. 'I make sausages! said the Princess; 'I can't do any such thing. I have eaten sausages often enough; but as to making them, I never made one in my life.
Well, the Princess thought it a good bargain; there could be no danger in letting him sleep outside her door. So she got the wheel, and at night Hacon Grizzlebeard lay down outside her bedroom. But as the night wore on he began to freeze. 'Hutetutetutetu! it is so cold; do let me in', he cried. 'You've lost your wits outright, I think', said the Princess.
Well, there was no help for it; the Prince had said it, and go she must. As for not knowing how, she was only to do what the others did, and at the same time Hacon bade her steal some sausages for him. 'Nay, but I can't steal them', she said; 'you know how it went last time. 'Well, you can learn to steal; who knows but you may have better luck next time', said Hacon Grizzlebeard.
So one day there came a prince to woo her, and his name was Hacon Grizzlebeard; but the first night he was there, the Princess bade the king's fool cut off the ears of one of the prince's horses, and slit the jaws of the other up to the ears. When the prince went out to drive next day, the Princess stood in the porch and looked at him.
'Hutetutetutetu! let me get into bed', said Hacon Grizzlebeard, who kept on shivering so that the whole room shook. Well! there was no help for it; she had to let him get into bed, where he slept both sound and soft; but a little while after the Princess had a child, at which the king grew so wild with rage, that he was near making an end of both mother and babe.
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