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But Osritha, knowing his ways, looked long at him, till he turned away again, and would not meet her eyes. "Now go back to your place, my sister," he said. "It is not well for you to bide here just now." "Why not? Let our friend tell me of Father also," she said wilfully. "Because I am going to do justice on Lodbrok's slayer," said Ingvar, in a great voice, swinging an axe again.
"Let him go with Raud until I have spoken with Beorn," answered Ingvar, "then we shall be sure if he is friend or not." Hubba nodded, and he and I rose up and went out to the porch, where Raud and Rolf waited with the two guards. We passed them and stood in the courtyard. "I believe you, Wulfric," said Hubba, "for I know a true man when I see him."
Only Ingvar was now on horseback, and the men seemed to be swarming over the bridge railings, and climbing under it among the timbers. Then were shouts, and the village churls began to run every way, and one or two came up the hill towards me. "What is it?" I asked.
xii Nidring, niddering, or nithing, may be beet expressed by "worthless ". It was the extreme term of reproach to a Saxon. xiii The "Lodbrokar-Quida", which is still in existence. By some authorities Ragnar is said to have been the father of Ingvar and Hubba, but the dates are most uncertain. xiv "The Fates" of the Northern mythology. xv St.
And I was confident, knowing this, that the death of one for the faith is often the greatest victory. So I said: "I thank you, Jarl. I will fight willingly for my faith." "Fight for what you like," said Ingvar, "but make haste over it." Then Hubba and Guthrum placed me at one side of the square, and Rorik at the opposite.
So one night a man ran in to say that a pack was round a cottage where a child would not cease crying, and must be driven off, or they would surely tear the clay walls down. Then Hubba and I would go; but Ingvar laughed at us, saying that a few firebrands would settle the matter by fraying the beasts away.
But Hubba was ever the same, and I liked him well, though I could not have made a friend of him as of Halfden. In March messengers began to come and go, and though I asked nothing and was told nothing, I knew well that Ingvar was gathering a mighty host to him that he might sail in the May time across the seas for plunder or for revenge.
"I will not touch him," I said, "and I think that he dies." "Then shall you see the vengeance of Ingvar on his father's murderer," the jarl said savagely. "Call the men together into the courtyard, Raud, and let them bring the man there." "Let him die, Jarl," I said boldly; "he has suffered already."
Now Ingvar, who had sat biting his nails and listening without a word, broke in, questioning me of Halfden's ship for long. At last he said: "This man tells truth, and I will not harm him. He shall bide here till Halfden comes home, for he tells a plain story, and wears those rings. And he has spoken the ill of himself and little of this craven, who maybe knows more than he will say.
I was turning away also, when the hoof beats of one horse stayed, and Ingvar called me in the voice he would use when most friendly with me. "Wulfric," he said, "glad was I to find you gone, for I should surely have had to slay you before the shrine; but Thor is far off now, and I have forgotten that, and only do I remember that good comrade to us all you have been in hall and forest.
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