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Then Olaf made no delay but rode to Colchester to see this shipmaster and speak with him, for he thought that he might find out from him what point on our coasts would be that at which Cnut aimed first. So Gunnhild and Olaf were right, and the little peace we had had was to end.
When Eric Bloody-axe had been defeated and killed, his sons came to Orkney and seized the jarldom, and his widow, the notoriously wicked Gunnhild and her daughter Ragnhild settled there for a time. Thorfinn Hausa-kliufr had five sons, Arnfinn, Havard, Hlodver, Ljotr and Skuli. Three of these, Arnfinn. Havard and Ljotr, successively married Ragnhild, and Ragnhild rivalled her mother in wickedness.
There was a paddle still in it, and a bow net set on hoops, such as we were wont to use for eels and tench. "Here is how Gunnhild might find food," I thought, but it was not likely. Ottar stood and looked into it with me, but the king had walked on.
But Christian warriors rest in peace, and about their last bed is no unquiet. Nor may Christian folk be frighted by the bale fires of the long-ago heathen's mounds. For their sakes they have been quenched, as I think. So I stood and mused for a while, turning over in my mind how best to find Gunnhild at the mere without leading others to her hiding place.
There she and Hertha and I were safe till the worst was over," he answered, and looked in my face. Then I must say what was in my mind all the while, and I asked him plainly: "Where is Hertha now, father? Is she yet well and safe?" "Both well and safe with Gunnhild," he said. "Where is she can I seek her?" The old man looked at me meaningly for a minute, and I grew hot under his kindly gaze.
He had made himself the king of all Norway, even as his father had been. Yet the people misliked him sorely, they were for ever striving to displace him and to set up Triggvi Olafson in his stead. Then Queen Gunnhild swore that, if Erik would not make his rule a certainty, she at least would not rest until she had exterminated all the race of Harald Fairhair outside of her husband's line."
Then the last doubt of trouble to come passed from me, for it was plain that these thingmen looked for help presently. But Olaf was thinking of my affairs again. "Four years is overlong for anyone to play ghost on a whole countryside," he said laughing. "I cannot think that Gunnhild, even if she be a witch, can have bided in sight of the village all this time without being found."
When the time comes, Hertha shall tell you of it but that must wait for the days to be." "I fear they will be long. Let me see Hertha before I go," I said, "for I must needs be content." "How looked she when last you saw her?" "Well, and bright, and happy," I answered. "Keep that memory of her therefore," Gunnhild said.
For now I must leave her in our poor land, where she must be hunted maybe from hiding to biding, place to place, and in my heart grew up an unreasoning anger against Ailwin and Gunnhild, who by their secrecy had kept me from bringing her here with Olaf.
His rule was, however, destined to be disturbed, on the one hand by the Moddan family's plots, and, on the other hand, by a Norse competitor for the jarldom, Kali, son of Kol and Gunnhild, Jarl St.
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