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Updated: June 13, 2025
The last battle was fought in Hordaland, on Stord Island, at Fitjar: there Hacon won the victory, but also got his death-wound. And this battle came about in this wise. Gunnhilda's sons sailed northward from Denmark, taking the outer way, nor came they to land oftener than for men to get knowledge of their goings, while they also got knowledge of the public banquets given to King Hacon.
"Sir Hacon," said the Duchess, frowning and pale, "I pray you summon me the Reeve, yonder." And when the Reeve was come, she spake him very soft and sweet: "Messire, I pray you let us out and aid the poor, stricken souls yonder." "But lady, the battle is not yet won to open our gates were unwise, methinks."
So, whenever they came to grand castles, and woods, and parks, and she asked whose they were? the beggar's answer was still the same: 'Oh: they are Hacon Grizzlebeard's. And the Princess was in a sad way that she had not chosen the man who had such broad lands.
But nothing saying, Beltane stumbled on until they came where stood Ulf holding a riderless horse, on the which he made shift to mount with Roger's aid; thereafter Ulf lifted Sir Benedict to his hold. "And, pray you," said Beltane, slow and blurred of speech, "pray you what of noble Sir Hacon?"
Why dares he not come forth and show himself? Who can point me to him? Then answered King Hacon: 'Hold thou on forward, if thou wilt find the Norsemen's king. And Hacon cast his shield by his side, and gripped his sword's mid-hilt with both hands, and ran forth from under the banner. But Thoralf Skumsson said, 'Suffer me, sire, to go against Eyvind.
'Nay, but I can't steal', she said; 'besides, you know how it went last time. 'You can learn then', said Hacon, 'and you may have better luck, perhaps. She thought it bad, but still she went and did as she was told.
'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.
Among her books are The City of the Sultan , Romance of the Harem, Thousand and One Days, Louis XIV. and the Court of France, Court of Francis I., etc. Chronicler, entered in 1217 the Benedictine Monastery of St. In 1248 he went on the invitation of Hacon King of Norway to reform the Abbey of St. Benet Holm.
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