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Be these things as they may, Godiva was the greatest lady in England, save two: Edith, Harold's sister, the nominal wife of Edward the Confessor; and Githa, or Gyda, as her own Danes called her, Harold's mother, niece of Canute the Great. Great was Godiva; and might have been proud enough, had she been inclined to that pleasant sin.
There was a minute's pause; and then Rollo asked what Gyda had for him to do. 'Not yet, she answered; and with that left the room. Rollo brought his chair to Wych Hazel's side. 'She is going to get you some supper, he said, with a smile. 'No, it will be all for you, and you will give me part of it. I should think you would come here very often, Mr. Rollo. 'Do you? said he, looking pleased.
Since his death I have ruled over it, and many have courted me, but none to whom I would choose to be married. "She was a young and handsome woman. They afterwards talked over the matter together and agreed, and so Gundalf and Gyda were betrothed. "Alfin was very ill pleased with this. The time and place of combat were settled, and it was fixed that each should have twelve men.
The Princess Gyda, sister of an Irish king, was a widow, but was still young and beautiful and had so many suitors that it was hard for her to choose between them. Among the most importunate was a warrior named Alfvine, a great slayer of men.
My mother was an English slave, one of those that Earl Godwin's wife not this one that is now, Gyda, but the old one, King Canute's sister used to sell out of England by the score, tied together with ropes, boys and girls from Bristol town. She would not have that; so he hung her up hand and foot, and beat her that she died.
He had paid his addresses to Gyda, but she gave for answer that she would choose a husband for herself; and on that account the Thing was assembled, that she might choose a husband. Alfin came there dressed out in his best clothes, and there were many well-dressed men at the meeting.
He ordered him to quit the country and never again to appear in it, and he took all his property. In this way Gundalf got Gyda in marriage, and he lived sometimes in England and sometimes in Ireland. Thikskul the scald says in regard to this:
Gyda would have enjoyed a row of reindeer's horns bristling along the eaves of her cottage; but I told her the boys of the Hollow would not leave them long if I set them there. 'But you are half Danish, said Wych Hazel. 'And was it for love of Denmark that you got your name? 'Which name? If you please?
The king is Harald Haarfager, "of the fair hair," the woman is proud and beautiful Gyda, whose former scorn for him, in the days when he was nothing but the petty chief of a few barren mountains, provoked that strange wild vow of his, "That he would never clip or comb his locks till he could woo her as sole king of Norway."
Sigurd here raised his eyes and looked across at Allogia as she silently plied her busy needle. "It is a long story, lady," he said; "and it may be that it is not new to you." "Tell it to the end," returned the queen. "There lived at that time in Valders a maid named Gyda," continued Sigurd.
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