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"Meantime," said Hilda, "I am to go about like a witch plucked somewhat hastily from the fire by a sympathising crone." "Nay; Herfrida will make thee a new kirtle of the best wool at Haldorstede." "So thy mother, it seems, is to work and slave in order to undo thy mischief?"
Haldor had already selected a small detachment of men, and turned back with the women and others, while Erling and his men went on as fast as they could run. A short time sufficed to bring them to the edge of the wood near Haldorstede.
"There may be company more numerous than pleasant at the Springs to-morrow, and a hearty welcome awaits thee at Haldorstede." Saying this he remounted and rode away.
This remark touched a chord in Alric's breast which at once turned his thoughts from himself, and allowed his native courage to rise. During the foregoing dialogue his left hand had been nervously twitching the little elm bow which it carried. It now grasped the bow firmly as he replied: "Ulfstede and Haldorstede may burn, but thou shalt not live to see it."
One evening he left Haldorstede with his fishing-spear on his shoulder, and went up to the river, accompanied by one of the house-carles. They both wore shirts of mail, and carried shield and sword, for these were not times in which men could venture to go about unarmed.
Having learned that morning that Danish vikings had been seen prowling among the islands near the fiord, she turned aside to enquire the news. Haldorstede lay about a mile up the valley, and Hilda passed it every morning on her way to and from the saeter. Ulfstede lay near the shore of the fiord.
The run so far restored him that he had sufficient strength to shoulder the fish, although it afterwards turned out to be a salmon of thirty-five pounds weight, and he quickly rejoined his friends, who returned with him to Haldorstede, where, you may be quite sure, he gave a graphic account of the adventure to willing and admiring ears.
Not twenty minutes after they had left Haldorstede the first band of King Harald's men came rushing up the banks of the river, enraged at having found Ulfstede deserted, and thirsting for plunder. They ran tumultuously into the house, sword in hand, and a yell of disappointment followed when they discovered that the inmates had fled.
For an hour after that, the people at Haldorstede continued to watch the fight with intense interest; but although they could see the motion of the ships on the fiord, and could hear the shout of war, as it came floating down on the breeze like a faint murmur, the distance was too great to permit of their distinguishing the individual combatants, or observing the progress of the fight.
Alric would perhaps have replied that his heart was the reverse of light at that moment, but his tongue refused to fulfil its office, so he sighed deeply, and tried to lick his parched lips instead. "Thou art on thy way to Ulfstede or Haldorstede, I suppose?" said the man. Alric nodded by way of reply. "To which?" demanded the Dane sternly. "T-to to Ulf " "Ha!" interrupted the man. "I see.
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