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There seemed to be not much to say 'otherwise. They were very good to her, Gyda remarked. Wych Hazel listened, but she risked no more questions. The supper lingered a while longer; Gyda and Rollo talking of various things and drawing in Wych Hazel when they could; then Gyda fetched a book and opened it and laid before Rollo. He left the table and came to Wych Hazel's side.
Then Olaf wedded Princess Gyda, and went with her to Ireland, and lived in great happiness for many days. During all this time of Olaf Triggvison's wanderings Earl Hakon of Lade continued to hold the sovereign rule in Norway, and there was great peace in the land, with fruitful harvests and good fishing.
It is one thing to hear these words sonorously read in church, or to run one's eye over them in a perfunctory manner. To see Gyda speak them, with the accent and air of one undeniably proving the truth of them, that was another thing. 'There may be yet a difficulty, Gyda, said Rollo. 'What is't? 'One may not know just how to get there, even after you have shewed the way.
They are very degraded, and I suppose embittered, by their way of life; and do not like to see people taking their pleasure as we are doing. 'That was what they were out for! Mr. Falkirk may well say my eyes are ignorant, said the girl, thoughtfully. 'But Mr. Rollo is this the only way to What do ordinary people call your friend? 'Gyda?
Her hand presently came to Rollo's face, pushing back the thick and somewhat curly locks from his temples, and then taking his head in both hands she kissed first one cheek and then the other. 'Don't be partial, Gyda! said he, smiling at her. And if there was beauty of only one kind in the little black eyes that looked at him, there was much of both kinds in the young man's face.
The second lady had unveiled herself, displaying a beauty which was still brilliant, in spite of sorrow, hunger, the stains of travel, and more than forty years of life. "She must be Gunhilda," guessed Torfrida to herself, and not amiss. She offered Gyda a bath, which she accepted eagerly, like a true Dane. "I have not washed for weeks.
'That shews I did right to bring you here. Now you'll have a Norse supper the first you ever had. Gyda is Norse herself, I told you; she is a Tellemarken woman. If we were in Norway now, there would be in the further end of this room two huge cribs, which would be the sleeping place for the whole family.
His reign altogether is counted to have been of over seventy years. The beginning of his great adventure was of a romantic character. youthful love for the beautiful Gyda, a then glorious and famous young lady of those regions, whom the young Harald aspired to marry.
For many years Sweyn was the virtual ruler of England, and he thus prepared the way for his son, Canute the Mighty, who was afterwards the chosen king of the English people. Now, while Olaf Triggvison was still the guest of King Ethelred, there also lived at the court a certain princess named Gyda. She was the sister of the King of Dublin, in Ireland, and she was considered very beautiful.
Hereward still played with his dagger. "Not the sons of Harold, then?" asked he, after a while. "Never! I promise you that I, Countess Gyda, their grandmother." "Why promise me, of all men, O great lady?" "Because I will tell you after. But this I say, my curse on the grandson of mine who shall try to seize that fatal crown, which cost the life of my fairest, my noblest, my wisest, my bravest!"
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