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'I want you to know Gyda. I am not superstitious, like some of the ignorant people who visit her; but yet' he paused. 'If ever you were in need of womanly counsel if ever you wanted sympathizing and wise help to find your way out of perplexities I should say, go to Gyda. If any one could give that sort of help, she would.
'I am glad we are going to the hills, if only to help me forget the valley. How can people live so! And oh! how can people let them! 'This is a concomitant of great civilization. I saw no such place when I was in Norway, Dane observed. 'And was what is her name? living there when you came home? 'Gyda? Down in the Hollow! O no. I had established her up here in comfort before I left her.
It is to the effect that love drove Harold to strive for the kingdom. Old Snorri tells the story, which runs this way. King Erik of Hördaland had a fair daughter named Gyda, the fame of whose beauty reached Harold's ears and he sent messengers to win her for himself.
After this battle, which occurred in 872, when he had been declared King of United Norway, he attended a feast, and the Earl of More cut his hair, which had not been cut or combed for ten years, and gave him the name of Fairhaired. Harald shortly afterward married Gyda.
"Doubtless the blessed St. Bertin, beneath whose shadow we repose here in peace," said Hereward, somewhat dryly. "I will go barefoot to his altar to-morrow, and offer my last jewel," said Gunhilda. "You," said Gyda, without noticing her daughter, "are, above all men, the man who is needed."
"But, if you so wish, I will cut it short." "Nay, tell it in your own way," said the queen, "for my time is of no account." "You must know, then," pursued Sigurd, "that King Harald Fairhair had many wives, other than Gyda. And as he had many wives, so had he many sons. These sons as they grew up to manhood became to him a serious trouble.
Hereward hoped inwardly that Gyda would be as good as her word; for her greedy grasp had gathered to itself, before the Battle of Hastings, no less than six-and-thirty thousand acres of good English soil.
'Fools build houses, and other people live in them, said Mr. Falkirk. 'O, it's not houses to live in though I have a notion he is going to do that too. He lives with old Gyda pretty much of the time. 'Well, said Dr. Arthur, looking at Mr. Falkirk but speaking to Wych Hazel, 'I need only add, that my father thoroughly approves of all Rollo's work.
Then Hereward rose again, and without an openly insulting word, poured forth his scorn and rage upon Osbiorn. Why had he not kept to the agreement which he and Countess Gyda had made with him through Tosti's sons? Why had he wasted time and men from Dover to Norwich, instead of coming straight into the fens, and marching inland to succor Morcar and Edwin?
Not that he sat moping all the time, for some deed of arms was ever on hand to afford distraction; but in the main his thoughts all turned on schemes for freeing England from the French tyrant. But not till Gyda, Harold's widowed mother, came to Baldwin for sanctuary did he take any overt action.
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